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fedER ABSENCEBut,Is New Welcomed By „ Daughter*FINDS HUSBAND IS LIVINGMrs. Abram Cox Went to St. Louts With Patrick Kinney Whom She later Married — Cox Married Again But Now His W.fa and Kinney Are Dead—Have Two Children Living in JolietA daughter’s love ah* proved Itself superior to gossip. A mother has begged forgiveness of her past aud that past has been forgiven and forgotten* The daughter is Mrs. Clara Ambrost, of 813 Houth Joliet street, wife of Peter Ambrost. a shoemaker; the mother, Mrs. Matilda Kinney, of St, Louis, formerly Mrs. Abram Cox, of Joliet,{Sixteen years ago, in 1889, Mrs Cox left Juliet la company with Patrick Kinney, whom she later married At the little home in this city were left her husband and four small children. # A divorce, It seems, was secured, aud Abram Cox married again that his children might be protected,Mr. and Mrs. Kinney went to St, Louis where they lived happily and prospered. Kinney, who worked in a hardware store while living In Joliet and was in the same employment in St. LouMied a few years ago, and Mrs. Kinney has since been living with four orphan boy srw horn she had adopted.The second Mrs. Cox is altto dead, and Abram Gox has been living at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ambrost, on South Joliet street. KedhnUy he has been Working in Plainfield,After her many years’ absenee, during which she had probably longed to see her children once more, Mrs. Kinney returned to Joliet Thursday and immediately looked up her daughter, Clara, who In the meanwhile had grown to womanhood and married Peter Ambrost.Aud it was no stinted greeting that Mrs. Ambrost gave her mother when the latter knocked at her daughter’s door and asked admittance. Mrs. Kinney, absent so many years, was received with open arms while stolid Peter Ambrost looked on in acclaim because- it was his help meet's wish.Mrs. Kinney, now a happy and contented woman, of middle aged, explained she had returned to see her offspring and her former husband, Abram Cox She said she was hho way dependent and that in fact four sons whom she had adopted In St. Louis, were caring for her nicely and that she had a little money of her own. During Mrs. Cox’s absent* her Joliet friends knew nothing of her whereabouts.“I returned to see my children,” said Mrs. Cox In an Interview this morning, “I havfea little accumulation and I would like it settled among them. My four adopted*boys in St Louis do not know I have children in Joliet and it is my wish they should not H“They have cared for me many years. They were the sons of a poor washwoman a^d when she died I took them as my own. They are now working iu a foundry ip^ Louis. ^“Of mytown children, one is missing, two are all v£-and one is dead. The living are: Clara, here in Joliet, and Min ni^ who is nuvrr tett to Job® Thwnpsonr mill employe, also living in Joliet. Emma was adopted by John Guinn, an Alabama preachnr, and whether she Is living or dead I do not know*. I have learned from Clara that Johnnie, my son died recently.
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The Joliet Weekly News
Joliet, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 17, 1905
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