Show = WERE 43 YEARS SEPARATED I i Reunion of John Threlkhelcl end His Sistcr After They Had Been I Apart for Nearly Half a Century lt 1 I I I There was a mild sensation at the senston I I Oregon Short Line depot on Thursday I evening last when a man was seen to 1 approach l woman put his arms j round her utter tho word Mar worl saVet which was followed by John and brother and sister who had not seen each other for fortythree years were reunited and went their way In perfect happiness and oblivious to alt their surroundings The woman was Margaret Threlkheld Johnson oC I Tropic rl7 tho man John Threlk held of 333 East Fourth South street In 1S37 Mr Threlklulds parents and I seven children I f England for Utah At Council Bluffs all save Margaret i and Mary Jane returned to England Margaret afterward married Patriarch I 1 Joel l II Johnson who moved to Arl I yona while Mary Tane met her fate In a man named Mr McCurroll and moved to Midway In Wasalch county I That was thirty years or more ago and In all that time the sisters bad never met until Thursday last also when they came together at their brothers home John who came here In 1S7C and had not seen his sister Margaret in forty three years said last evening fr knew her In a second because she looked like mother To add to the Interest of the occasion Margarets son Ezekiel Johnson arrived from Bluff Coio on Friday bringing with him Miss Eliza Jepptrson and the two were married In the Temple yesterday Neither Mary Jane nor John had ever seen their nephew Ezekiel before and his mother had not beheld his features for seven years So there has been considerable rejoicing re-joicing In the Threlkheld family during the last few days I |