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Show ilFIE&uTYLE SECTION SATURDAY, APRIL 7, EDITOR I Elyssa Andrus 2007 eandrusheraldextra.com 344-255- 3 LaRae Free Kerr It's All Relatives p r FATHER KIDNAPPED SON - THANK HEAVENS Wadsworth George his son. 1848, in Dove-cliffEngland, George and Alice e, ;3 Allen Wadsworth's son was ' bora They named him James after George's beloved Uncle James Wadsworth. Little James was only 10 months old when his mother died of consumption. The bewildered husband saw his wife buried and his little son James christened on the same day, Feb. 17, 1849 in Tankersley, Yorkshire, England. George worked deep in the local iron mines, unable to care for his little son. But the man for whom Little James was named, who had never been able to have children of his own, could raise his son. Though Uncle James and his wife, Elizabeth Hutchinson Wadsworth, had two foster children, they agreed to take in Little James. Even after George remarried in 1853, Uncle James kept Little James. Uncle James and his family had been members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints since 1841. Eventually, George and his new wife, Elizabeth Broadbent Wadsworth, joined the same church. Both Wadsworth families boarded the ship Horizon in 1856 and set sail for America. According to the Horizon manifest George's family consisted of George, Elizabeth and baby NephL Uncle James's family included his wife Elizabeth, Little James (George's son), their foster daughter Mary, age 19, and Thomas Smith, age J 20, Haunted by history, a felon turns to confession Christine Hartley ft I I ouis Bostich went to Mount Shasta and prayed. Sober for about a year, he found himself reach--I ing for the bottle again. And he knew why. It was drank away a promising Navy the same reason career, a string of other respectable jobs and his only I I L-- ' ZZl meaningful relationships. He was thinking of what he did to Jami Vitt ell Bostich never told anyone what happened 20 years earlier. Not his father, who raised him after his mother died of an aneurism when he was 5. Not his friends or U.S Navy ship- - Territory the summer of 1856. So he, Elizabeth and baby Nephi settled in for the winter. He was joined by Edward Hutchinson, and Thomas and Mary Jackson mates. , He began drinking himself to sleep. His addiction didn't go the Navy said no, sendunnoticed. When he tried to ing him on his way with an honorable discharge. Trained as an electrician, Bostich sought jobs that allowed him to work in virtual isolation and drift from place to place. Over the years, he was a technician for Southern California Edison in San Diego, a pipe fitter in Long Beach, Calif., and general hand at a small sawmill in Washington state. He donated money and time to charities, working for outfits including Habitat for Humanity, hoping somehow it might LOS ANGELES TIMES , Smith. Uncle James and the others, however, joined the Hunt and Hodgett baggage train and folWillie and lowed the Martin Handcart Companies into Great Salt Lake City. Uncle James's widowed mother-in-laElizabeth Hutchinson, died Nov. 11, 1856, and was buried in the snow somewhere between Martin's Cove and South Pass. See CONFESSION, B2 . who married Mary aboard ship. Uncle James's mother-in-laMary Hutchinson, 70, a widow, was also included in the manifest as were Mary's granddaughter, Elizabeth Cotton, age 15, and her son, Edward Hutchinson, 26, a miner. Eventually landing in Iowa City, Iowa, George was asked to take charge of the church members who could not go to Utah See ' v(L rv1 tt I I If , J7 f IW a penny V0UR F0R U THOUGHTS, U c: , () KECEIVC) f" ) t:s TKfi hu;.; A T caster alums ME THINK OF MY MOTHER... ' .1 C, i : ii( '51'! c C n VJ I she really knew mow to I MM CELEBRATE THIS HOLIDAY! J i J y, J :;..J L jr"V II .,,,. 1 REW-L- r f nl" ( I. 1 Vj f so first must be VERY DIFFICULT HOLIDAY FOR YOU, EHf , - t SUNRISE- SERVICE AT CHURCH..." easter A take she would US ALL TO THE Tare I - l) (( "then LATER SHE COOKED HAM DINNER, S) you kidding L0VB EASTER! - fTS, L: WITH INCLUDING ALL E KERR, B2 AN ENORMOUS THE TRIMMIN6S PIES!" -I- T'S THANKS TO THE HOrE Of EASTER THAT I KNOW I'M GOING TO SEE MY MOTHER AGAIN SOMEDAY! |