Perkins - Albert
Source: Sunday Star, March 13, 1898 p 1
Some weeks since the Sunday Star had an ccount of the discovery of a long-lost son in the person of Albert Perkins, the long-lost son of Mrs. Mary F. Perkins of this city and an interesting tale was told of the same which was doubted by some persons as unreasonable. Albert Perkins, it will be remembered had been a rover over the world and wrote to his mother that he would shortly be her eon a visit. This week Mrs. Perkins was expecting information of his coming with her daughter from new Orleans, and with glad hands she on Wednesday opened a telegram that she supposed would say that the children were on the way home. AlasQ! The bit of yellow paper said the son had just died very suddenly in Seattle. Fred Perkins, the barber, a brother of Albert, at once went to the West to look after the remains of the man whom he had last seen as a mere child. Mrs. Perkins it he sister of Mrs. MY Buck. She is prostrated with grief. - kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 11 March, 1898
Fred Perkins left on Thursday for Seattle, Wash., being called there by the death of his brother, Albert A. Perkins. A message announcing his death was the first news the family had that he was not in good health. He had been intending to visit home and was expected here this week.
Mr. Perkins was the superintendent of a mine in Washington State and was in comfortable circumstances. Quite a romance attaches to his later life. Sixteen years ago he left home and was not heard from by his family until three months ago. It developed that he supposed his mother dead and the family supposed him dead. The anticipated joyful reunion is now made impossible by death. -s