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Boy From Kentucky Hills Comes Hunting His Mothertn Elwood Carrington, 19, His Fannin ture Ruined by the Drouth, Seeks His Long Lost FamilyA 19-year-old youth came to Charleston yesterday seeking trace of his mother from wbos* home he ran away ten . sgo» That was down onGrassy, hade of Vaneeburg, Ky, Since then he haa Jurt worked around tn the Vanoeburf section.Lest spring he- put out a tobacco crop hut the drouth killed it. So he started out to look for hie mother. He ha# walked and hitch-hiked over a goodly part of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio ainee then, tracing hit mother tram place to place.•He earn* to Charleston because he heard that hie mother waa living witn his aunt on Little Kanawha river, about 35 miles above Charleston/* A newspaper woman at Portsmouth sent him to The Gazette and The Gazette plaoed him in the Union Mission to await any information that may come to this newspaper as the result of this story.The youth's asms is William Elwood Carrington. His mother called him “Bill. . He ran away after his father died and his mother married a man named Jeas Sparks,, who also died. Themother married again, this time to a man named Caneidy, who killed two men and was sent to an asylum. All tbii happened in Kentucky.Bill remembers his first step-fatBer but never saw Cassidy.His mother left Ebby, Ky., about ''seven years ago with Bill's three half sisters. The oldest half-sister Bill found la Kentucky. She la now married, She said her mother had gone to live with Aunt Lizzy and taken Zen* and Elizabeth with her.Bill doesn't know Aunt Lizzy's last name, but knows her hueband is a railroader, and is supposed to reside on the ‘’Little Kanawha river, but that may mean either the Little or Great Kanawha river or any of their tributaries.Anyone having any information that may aid Bill in his search for his mother is requested to communicate with The Gazette or with Rev, Fat B. Withrow, superintendent at the Union Mission. Meanwhile, Bill, who Isn’t at all the vagrant type, would appreciate a Job that will support him while he awaits word of his mother.
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, Jul 26, 1930
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