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Show REUNITED AFTER - .... OVER FORTY YEARS ; 7 . ; .. . .- . ,Siter and Brother Were Mere Babies . . When They Were "f'j Separated. ; Salt' I.nlce, Aug. 20. After being separated from her brother, P. J. F-helhard, her only near living relative, rela-tive, for more than forty years, Mrs. R. A. Jessen, of o&R Fast South Temple Tem-ple street, was reunited with him at Loa Angeles yesterday While neither remembered the other, their meeting was a touching scene. Mrs. Jessen was a little more than a jear for some time In Los Angeles and will I then return to this city. I Mrs. Jessen and her brother were horn in Sin Francisco. When Mrs, Jessen was a litle more than a year old and her brother was a babe a few days old, their mother died. For a short time the two remained witj their father in Snn Francisco. In a few months, however, the two were separated. Mra Jessen went with a foster iiarent, who had adopted her. to the south and her brother remained in San Ptancisco. The early part of the woman's childhood child-hood was spent in the south. During this time she l;new nothing of the whereabouts of her brother. About thirty years ago fhe moved with her foster parent to this city, nnd several years after she learned of the existence exist-ence of her brother In California. Correspondence Cor-respondence was opened between the . two. but on account of the interference interfer-ence of Ihe foster pnrent of the young woman, the two wrro never allowed to meet At the age of eighteen Mrs. Jessen, whose maiden name was Rose Ehci-hard, Ehci-hard, married. About seven years ago her husband died and left her with a small family. Since that time her desire to meet her brother has Increased, In-creased, and a short time ago she left with her daughter, Rose, for L's Angeles An-geles for the purpose of seeing him. The brother and sister closed the loug gap of fortv years' separation at Los Angeles yesterday. Mrs, Jessen and her daughter will remain in Los Angeles for some lltne, where she will be shown the sights in southern California Cali-fornia by her brother, and she will then return to this city. |