Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on Feb 10, 2010 21:10:16 GMT -5
Brothers Meet After 62 Years
Separated in 1871, Visit After Long Interval-Left Indiana When Only 18 Year of Age
PLENTY OF TEARS
Kansas City, MO, June 19- Jacob Friend of Independence, MO, who is now 80 years old, left the home of his parents in Indiana, PA, when he was 18 years old, leaving behind a brother, Frank Friend, then 11 years old. Recently Jacob threw his arms around this same brother when he stepped from a train at the Missouri Pacific station in Independence, the first time the two had been each other in sixty-two years.
Tears were evident in the eyes of the gray-haired men as they embraced at the station, but shortly they were joking each other and recalling their days together as boys in Pennsylvania. Despite their years, both are erect and in good health.
"We were just too far away to make the trip," Jacob explained when asked why they had never made the effort to see each other. The trip was arranged this time, however, by a niece, Miss Agnes Hoffman, who lives in Indiana, PA, too. She said the two brothers were the only ones of the immediate family left and she desired that they see each other before they died.
Frank's wife died twenty years ago. He has no children. Jacob has seven children living now, besides twenty-two grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
Jacob Friend's children are Harry Friend, Mrs. Bert Peterson, Mrs. H. B. Roberts, Mrs. J. C. Smith, Fred Friend and Mrs. G. R. Farrell of Independence, and Charles Friend, Chautauqua, Kansas.
The two brothers went first to the home of Mrs. J. C. Smith, West Short St. They went late to the wife of the Independence brother east of Independence, where the Pennsylvania brother will remain for some time.
Jacob Friend married Miss Margaret Harley in Virginia shortly after leaving home. They moved to Michigan, near South Boardman, where Mr. Friend worked in lumber camps and where most of their children were born. They move to Independence about thirty years ago and have lived here since. Mrs. Friend is living and in fairly good health.
Indian Evening Gazette (Pennsylvania, IN) June 19, 1933
Separated in 1871, Visit After Long Interval-Left Indiana When Only 18 Year of Age
PLENTY OF TEARS
Kansas City, MO, June 19- Jacob Friend of Independence, MO, who is now 80 years old, left the home of his parents in Indiana, PA, when he was 18 years old, leaving behind a brother, Frank Friend, then 11 years old. Recently Jacob threw his arms around this same brother when he stepped from a train at the Missouri Pacific station in Independence, the first time the two had been each other in sixty-two years.
Tears were evident in the eyes of the gray-haired men as they embraced at the station, but shortly they were joking each other and recalling their days together as boys in Pennsylvania. Despite their years, both are erect and in good health.
"We were just too far away to make the trip," Jacob explained when asked why they had never made the effort to see each other. The trip was arranged this time, however, by a niece, Miss Agnes Hoffman, who lives in Indiana, PA, too. She said the two brothers were the only ones of the immediate family left and she desired that they see each other before they died.
Frank's wife died twenty years ago. He has no children. Jacob has seven children living now, besides twenty-two grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
Jacob Friend's children are Harry Friend, Mrs. Bert Peterson, Mrs. H. B. Roberts, Mrs. J. C. Smith, Fred Friend and Mrs. G. R. Farrell of Independence, and Charles Friend, Chautauqua, Kansas.
The two brothers went first to the home of Mrs. J. C. Smith, West Short St. They went late to the wife of the Independence brother east of Independence, where the Pennsylvania brother will remain for some time.
Jacob Friend married Miss Margaret Harley in Virginia shortly after leaving home. They moved to Michigan, near South Boardman, where Mr. Friend worked in lumber camps and where most of their children were born. They move to Independence about thirty years ago and have lived here since. Mrs. Friend is living and in fairly good health.
Indian Evening Gazette (Pennsylvania, IN) June 19, 1933