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Re-Union After Many Years. jOlla, Lb., April 24.—Torn apart when they weie mere children, and separated for forty years, finally being reunited through the medium of a newspaper advertisement—this is the romantic storv of two sisters, Mrs. George Miller, of Syracuse, N. V., and Mrs. S. J. MeBroom, of Olla, who met here Saturday for the first time since 1885.Shortly after the close of the civil war death invaded the family of John Hurt, who was a member of Company G, Second Louisiana Infantry, and carried away six of the nine members. . Mr. Burt died in 1885. Mrs. Burt, her four boys and two girls (dow Mrs. MeBroom and Mis. Miller) took up their residence near Baton Rouge, La., after the death of the father. There the entire family, except one of the girls (now Mrs. Miller, then 9 years old) was stricken with smallpox and placed in a detention camp, near Baton Rouge, where the mother and her four boys died, the girl (now Mrs. MeBroom, then 11 years old) alone surviving. The 9-year-old girl, who bad escaped the dreaded malady, was placed in an orphans’ asylum at Baton Rouge. Sliortly afterwards a citizen of New Orleans adopted the little girl in the asylum and carried her to his home. This citizen and his wife | greatly admired their charge, and were verv annrehensive lest thev
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Brookhaven Leader
Brookhaven, Mississippi, US
Wed, Apr 26, 1905
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