Ionia County MI Archives News.....Says He Saw Morse - First Definate Trace of the Portland Boy Who Disappeared April 19, 1903
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Grand Rapids Press April 19, 1903
Portland, Mich., April 23. - A letter has been received from Chicago by a young
woman in this village in which it was state that the writer had seen, the day
the letter was written, Leon Morse, the son of ex-Game and Fish Warden Grant M.
Morse, who so suddenly and completely disappeared a year ago last February and
from whom no word has ever been received.
The young man, who avers he certainly saw young Morse, is Claude Holcombe who is
a resident of Portland, and is now a member of one of the bands connected with
Sells Bros.'  Circus, now showing in Chicago. Not only did Holcombe see Morse,
but the latter called to him and spoke to him, but when he went to go near him
Morse disappeared in the crowd. There is not much chance for Holcombe to have
been mistaken for he was a classmate of Morse when they attended Portland
schools, and both have always lived there.


Additional Comments:
Transcribers Notes: Grant M Morse, father of Leon, died in 1922. Mollie mother
of Leon passed away in 1950 and Leon Morse died in 1967. All are interred in the
Portland Cemetery.
Sources: 1900 U.S. Census and Portland Cemetery Records.

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