Beaman - Calvin - gone 37 years
Source: Indianapolis Star Fri 4 Dec 1903 p 5
Crawfordsville Dec 3 – After an absence from home of 37 years, mourned for years by his wife and children as being dead, his wife again marrying and later dying of a broken heart, Calvin E., Beaman has been heard from at last and a mystery that has baffled his relatives and the best detective skill for years has been cleare dup. Today Mrs. Newton McCormick, Beaman’s daughter, received a letter from her father dated at Sedalia, Mo. It was the first clew (sic) that had ever been heard of the man since he disappeared. Beaman seemed thoroughly acquainted with all that had happened during his absence, but gave no details as to where he had kept himself during all these years. Beaman was seen last by his family in 1867. He was a well-to-do farmer, living at Mace and was then 35 years old, married and the father of three children. At the end of two weeks, when Beaman failed to return, the neighbors were called in and a systematic search was made but no trace could be found. After 7 years of fruitless search Mrs. Beaman supposing her husband dead, married a man near Macae. Before remarrying however she went through the form of getting a divorce as a precautionary measure but the strain under which she had lived since her husband’s disappearance, shattered her health and in a few days after her marriage, she died.