A STRANGE RE-UNION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13575, 5 December 1907, Page 7

A STRANGE RE-UNION.

HAN MOURNED AS DEAD FOR FORTY-EIGHT YEARS. SEATTLE (Washington), September I.Bth. — Initial steps have been taken in the process of the reunion of a family after half a century of separation in the, departure yesterday of Mrs I. M. Bennett, of 3631 Gfreenwood Avenue, Seattle, for Manton, California, to join . her father, Alexander X. Lockwood, whom she and her mother have for 48 years mourned as dead. The story is a strange one. It deals with the rush from the States to the goldfields of California- -Lockwood was supposed to have been killed by Indians in 1859. Merest chance has placed the long-separated father and daughter in communication and wrought events in such manner that the aged.JFather can be brought back to the family long lost to him. His aged wifo, who again married after the report of the death of her husband, will hasten back to Seattle from Princeton, Illinois. The husband whom she married forty years ago is dead, and the widowed wife will meet the husband of fifty years ago. Lockwood was wounded by the Indians and thrown in Snake River for dead. In some manner he escaped drowning, got well, and continued his journey to California. He says he wrote to his family repeatedly, but as they moved from Minnesota back to Illinois after receiving news of his death,- the letters never " reached the family.

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