REMARKABLE RE-UNIONS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5092, 23 February 1927, Page 3

REMARKABLE RE-UNIONS.

after many years. NEW YORK’S MFE DRAMAS. While most of 8000 persons reported lost or. missing in New York in a single year a ' re found, there ale some cases where the authoiities fail U find them for many years. New York City has seen numerous cases Oif unusual reunions, when after years of fruitless search persons believed dfttead or hopelessly lost have joined ' their families. Some of these stories sound like tales from the Arabian Nights (says the New York Times). The San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 broke up a family in California for twenty years. The father had given up all hope of ever seeing his children again, when, making a ■ trip to San Francisco for the first time. since the disaster, he chanced ' to look through a telephone directory, where he came across the name cf his eldest son. The 'father’s excited voice over the telephone was answered by his daughter-in-law, and at -dinner father and son were reunited. Tne next day they drove to Redwood City, where his younger son, with his family, as well as three daughters and their families, awaited him. Another recent story told how “instinct"’ led a man to find his sister after they had had no information about each other for ’forty years. The father and . mother had separated, one child being reared in Boston and the other in the south. As a baby the boy had heard his mother speak of Atlanta, and that recollection finally induced him to write to a newspaper ' there, asking the editor to help him trace ’his sister. The letter soon found its way into her hands. SON FINDS HIS FATHER. Two years ago a son reclaimed his father, a sailor veteran of the Span-ish-American war, after eleven years 'f separation, when fie read that the aged man, poor and worn, had been taken to a hospital. The veteran related how he and Captain Hunker had sunk the Spanish gunboat Don Jorge Juan of the Cuban coast—he was chief yeoman then —and told the story as if he and the captain had done it all single-handed. Then he told of having had a quarrel with his son eleven years before, and of not having seen him since. Shortly afterwards the young man himself, came , in, equipped with a good job, a good home, and a wife. . Just as “instinct” led to one reunion, a dream three years ago led to another between a father and his daughter. The woman dreamed of her father, whom she had not seen for forty-five years, and so vivid was her dream that She went to police headquarters, enlisting the aid of the police, in a search for him. The stoiy was printed in a local newspaper and came to the eye of g real estate broker, of Springfield, L. 1., who remembered that the night watchman who had been in his employ for thirty years had often spoken of a missing daughter. He arranged a meeting between them. Although the had changed his name, photographs of himself and his wife at the time of their marriage disclosed a striking resemblance between wife and daughter. A Union veteran of Wisconsin found his wife after sixty-three years, after both had remarried and reared families. Thomas Mann enlisted in the Union Army, serving with the 139th Indiana Infantry. Discharged, he took his bride to a farm near Ironton, Wis., and re-entered the Thirtysixth Wisconsin Infantry f where Jje served until the war ended in 1865. When he got home his wife had left for the home of her parents in Indiana. A LONG SEARCH. Both sought, each other for several years without success. Believing him dead, his wife remarried, twice, twice . becoming a widow. He, too, remarried and lost his second wffe. When Mrs Mann asked the Federal Pension Bureau to allot her the pension of her first, husband she was informed • that a veteran of the same name was drawing 'his own pension'. She wrote to Mann and discovered him to be her husband. Lawyers held that no ■remarriage ceremony was necessary. A couple of Danbury, Conn, resumed housekeeping in 1924 after a separation of twenty-five years. School-day chums, they married thirty-five years ago in New Milford where they lived for ten years, when the husband suddenly disappeared, without explanation or apparent cause. He finally 'returned to his old haunts, where through the medium of-friends he located his wife and decided to take up once more the thread of their, relations. Another veteran of the SpanishAmerican War, after a search of more than twenty-four years, succeeded a .few months ago. in finding his parents, from whom he had been separated in Russia. The veteran left his childhood home in Kovna, Russia, in 1891., and spent many years roaming various countries. In 1902, when he was in hSanghai he erceived a card telling of the wedding of his sister Rose in New York. That was the last news he had of his parents and brothers and sisters until a few months ago. In answer to a newspaper'advertisement he learned that his sister who had married lived at Eightyfirst Street and First Avenue. He met his sister and brother-in-law and was taken to Brooklyn, where he " found his parents and other relatives. Recently a mother found her daughter, from whom she had been separated for twenty-three years. Her husband died when t.he girl was a small child, and the mother, placed her in a home for nursing. In some unexplainable way she lost track of the child, all efforts to find her proving unavailing. Finally she found her child, who had got over her tubercular condition and was married.