Show LOST EACH OTHER FOR FIFTY YEARS david leonard of 0 at alameda california visiting a sister who whon n he had not seen or heard of for a full fifty years H sends us the account of their reu ion cl aped fion a paper of that place after a depra ion of fifty years during which time no word passed be i tween them mrs charles E urston and david H leonard sister and brother have been re united and are celebia ing their joyful re un on at the home of ane foi n 27 cl ni ave their history dates back to the year 1852 ahen at the ages of 10 and 12 years the brother was two years older thin the s ster they crossed the plains together in an ox team arri ing ain salt daxe from M ch gin where they were bordin 3 ith abe ot two children cn was emma chill whom lonard L onard afterward nude h how the two ch idren became sep b a tram of circumstances neither of them could avoid and tha way that the older baroti er jo abed the sister is a story full of pathos and was recited this morning by the brother with from tha long lost sister with tears in the r eyes j the drea ns of t fireside where mr and mis leonard sat talking over early days about six montas ago re suited in locating mrs thurston who is in her sixt seventh ear but whose statu aie form aaa wll pres arved features resemble more a woman of 60 at the earla age of 15 years the little s ster whom leonard charac ter zes as the waif of the pia ns married edwarf W trimmer in rutih this was in 1869 utah sh and her husband ti a pled in a team drawn by horses to carson valley nevada the brother ret in utah and engaged n the horticultural bu after his mafrige with th girl who crossed the plains with him and his from their home in mich gan all three children lost their pare tb when they were young nd the trip from mid gan was made in company with friends from whom they separated soon after thir anival we just lost track of each other withof meaning to said leonard today we wrote to ano hr bit b it ua letters rever reached their des matron it s odd though that I 1 never thought of my sister as dead but ads certain that had happened to me and for years has mourned me as dead As vie were sitting by the fro s de about six months ago my gift agan talking of my sister and said that she bel eved her to bo al ye let s comman cate with tbs post master at carson cit she said and her words were no sooner uttered than I 1 d a 1 ater ahr antt b her A train of reilly a ded us in locating one ieather my s ster son fred had been employed in the aa city pos and wn n th letter reached their it was given into his han Is and then it was forwarded to m sister m ala 11 di mis thurston descar bed her feal ahn she r this letter after a sit nee of fifty years A overcame me she said this morn ng you know the letter was from my sister in law with whom as a little girl I 1 had crossed the pla ns so I 1 thought that m brother was surely dead I 1 wrote immediately he answered A id within a short tim h answered in person f the and sat huddled close together as they ald the story of thear boig and fi me affe yo abo aten years 1 after the death of her arst husband in t trimmer went to eurea humboldt cauntay where she married ha arsent busbani an evangel st in 1878 the couple haye traveled all 0 er united states preaching the gos pel and are widely known their cased leonard is a member of the mormon church of hunt agton utah he has 16 living th idren 55 grandchildren and one great grand child mrs thurston has five living children 11 grand children and one great grand child but thee two large famil es never recompensed the ie f r the loss of one another aid the fruitful search instituted by the brother has brought untold happ ness nto the hearts of both leonard arrived in this city on buee day he w 11 indefinitely ng chi atmas with his sister and her family when ak today if they would have recognized one anchel mrs thurston said I 1 would have known my brother out only by means of a photograph that he sent me sveal weeks ago the brother stated that his sister s face had changed to him baoni t 01 the ears have dalt kindly with both brother and sister whose three score years ar lari to bel eve mrs thurston Thur is still a handson n staely woman |