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Boy From Kentucky Hills Comes Hunting His MotherWilliam Elwood Carrington, 19, His Fanning Venture Ruined by the Drouth, Seeks His Long Lost FamilyA 19-year-old youth came to Charlee-ton yesterday seeking trace of hia mother tran whose home tie ran away ten jrefxak. ago* That was down on Grassy, back of Vaneeburg, Ky. Since then he hM Jurt worked around tn the Vanoeburf atctioa.Lett eprtng he put out a tobacco crop hut the drouth killed it. So be atarted out to took for bis mother. He ha* walked and hitch-hiked over a goodly part of Kentucky, Virginia, Wert Virginia and Ohio since then, tracing hi* mother from place to place.•He earn* to Charleston because he heard that hia mother wa* uving witn his aunt on Little Kanawha river, about 3S miles above Charles ton,*' A newspaper woman at Portsmouth sent him 4o The Gazette and The Gazette placed him in the Union .Mission to strait any jnformetiozi that may come to this newspaper as the result of this story.The youth's name u William Elwood Carrington. Hi* mother called him Bill. He ran away after hi* father died and his mother married a man named Jess Sparks,, who also died. Themother married again, this time to a man named Cassidy, who killed two j men and was sent to an asylum. All [ this happened in Kentucky.Bin remembers his first step-fatHer \ 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'* last name, but knows her husband is a railroader, and la supposed to reside on j the “Little Kanawha river,” but that j 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 hia mother is requested to communicate ' with The Gazette or with Rev. Fat B. Withrow, superintendent of 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 hia mother.
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, Jul 26, 1930
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