Smith- JC - found after many years - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The following dispatch from Carthage, Mo., to the Chicago Herald will be of interest to a number of persons in this county: “A romantic reunion of a husband and wife, separated for seven years, occurred here today. Nineteen years ago, J. C. Smith, of Ladoga, Ind., married a young woman of Danville, Ill., and the pair settled in Kansas. Fortune did not favor them, and they moved to Idaho, where their ill luck was even more pronounced. Smith took his family to Calhoun County, Arkansas, in 1885, and returned to Idaho, where he went to prospecting. He was lost in the mountains and reported dead, and his wife, with her son, a boy of sixteen, came to this city. Smith struck a rich claim two years ago, sold it for $27,000 and having invested the money in lands in Seattle and Spokane Falls, now worth $150,000, started in search of his wife and boy. After a six months search he found them here today, the wife supporting herself by teaching music and the boy working in the foundry. Smith’s father is President of the National Bank of  Ladoga, Ind.”