Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1904 — Sisters Separated Forty-Seven Years. [ARTICLE]

Sisters Separated Forty-Seven Years.

Mrs W. D. Robinson, of Hammond formerly and for a good many years a resident of Rensselaer has just met a sister whom she had not seen before fcr 47 years. The Hammond Tribune gives the following particulars of their separation and final meeting: .Half a century is a long time for two sisters to live in neighboring states and never meet. Such is the oases in one Mrs. Welcome D. Robinson, 135 Douglas street has had as her guest for the past two weeks her sister, Mrs. Anna Mattiaon, of Evansas City, Kansas. The two had not seen each other for forty seven' years. She left the parental home in Illinois in 1857. Mrs. Mattison and family went west and has sinoe lived in various oities in the western states. The turmoil of the civil wai farther divided the two sisters. Mrs. Mattison lived in “Bleeding Kansas” daring the war and the dangers of those days are still real to her Mrs. Robinson and her family came to Rensselaer and later moved to Hammond. They have lived in these two towns for almost half a ceotury. The sisters have corresponded regularly but never were able to pay eaoh other a visit. Mrs. Mattison left today for Swanington, Indiana to visit other relatives whom she has not see not many years.