Knox County IN Archives News.....Woman Mystery in Wabash Valley February 23, 1903
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The Decatur [IL] Review February 23, 1903
Supposed to Have Been Buried 20 Years Ago, Reappears

Harrisburg, Ills., Feb 23.-The citizens of Mount Carmel, Ills.; Carmi, Ills., 
and Vincennes, Ind., are somewhat mystified over the burial of a woman at 
Mount Carmel some twenty years ago as Miss Ella Wilcher, who now turns up 
alive at Peoria, Ills. George Wilcher, with his two children, John and Ella, 
were residents of Vincennes, Ind., twenty-five years ago, where he died and 
the children separated, Miss Ella going to Carmi. They became negligent about 
writing to each other and finally lost track of one another entirely. Eighty 
years ago John Wilcher applied for a pension, their father having served in 
the Sixth Indiana infantry. In this he was not successful, but the fact 
developed that his sister, Ella, died at Carmi some twelve years previous, and 
was taken to Mount Carmel for burial. A few days ago John Wilcher received a 
letter from his sister, Ella. She is the wife of J. E. Oney, a saloonist, of 
Peoria, and lives at 1621 North Adams street, in that city. In her letter to 
her brother she said she married Oney four years ago, and that he had often 
urged her to write to her relatives and see if they were still living. The 
mystery to solve now is, who was the woman buried at Mount Carmel as Miss Ella 
Wilcher? Mrs. Oney's relatives are delighted to hear from her and visits will 
soon be exchanged betweent them.

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