HE FINDS LONG LOST SISTER - GRANT JONES

JONES, FERGUSON

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 2/18/2002 at 14:28:49

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, May 27, l9l5

GRANT JONES, a well known farmer and fine
stock breeder of Lamoni, has
just returned from an unusual trip to Weiser,
Idaho, where he went three
weeks ago to visit a sister, MRS. LUCY
FERGUSON, having finally located
her after thirty-six years.

When MR. JONES was a lad of l4, he was living
with his sister in
Cherokee County, Kansas. In company with his
brother, WILLIAM L. JONES,
the two boys started for Arkansas, driving
across the country.

They changed their destination in Arkansas,
and a letter from their
sister telling them she was leaving for
Colorado, failed to reach them.
The boys wrote to the sister, but their
letters alwo went astray, and
from that time until a few weeks ago the
brothers and sister never heard
from each other, the sister moving from
Colorado to Utah, then back to
Colorado, then to Oregon, Washington and
finally to Idaho.

The older brother, WM. L. JONES, resides at
Drewsy, Ore., only ll4 miles
from where the sister lives, and for
twenty-three years he has
frequently been within fourteen miles of her,
but neither of the
brothers could get any trace of the lost
sister.

A few weeks ago MR. GRANT JONES decided to
advertise for word of
his lost sister, and placed a small
advertisement in the Boise, Idaho,
Statesman. He was overjoyed a few days later
to receive a letter from
MRS. FERGUSON's son, who resides at Yampa,
Colo., telling him his sister
was alive and living at Weiser.

MR. JONES immediately wrote to her and also
to his brother at Drewsy,
Ore., and the two arranged to meet and visit
her, and it was indeed a
joyful reunion of the brothers and sister
after a separation of
thirty-six years.

--REGISTER
AND LEADER.

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Copied February l8, 2002
*This blessed my heart.