Van Zandt Co., TX - News - J.W.Waldroop
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The Canton Times
Volume I
Canton, Van Zandt County Texas Friday, December 27, 1935
Number 38

"SON'S 20-YEAR SEARCH FOR DAD COMES TO SUCCESSFUL END HERE"

Norris L. Waldroop, [sic], 28, found the end of a 20-year trail six miles 
north of Natura, last week when he located his father, J.W.Waldroop, farmer, 
for whom he had searched for two decades.

This morning, reunited father and son will leave for Texas to visit two 
daughters of the Natura farmer who have been lost to him almost as long as 
the son. One is in Canton and the other, married, is in Jacksboro. Father 
and son will spend Christmas with them.

Twenty-two years ago, Mr. Waldroop and his wife separated. The father took 
the son, but unable to give him the kind of home a boy should have, he 
caused the 6-year-old child to be adopted by Mr. and Mrs. I.D. Parris in 
Dangerfield, Texas. The father left Dangerfield after about six months, and 
never again was able to find his scattered children, until the son came last 
week.

Norris remained with his foster parents only about three years. He was 
"unable to get along with them" and left his new home, when he was only 9 
years old. By his own efforts he put himself through the eighth grade of 
school and never received more education.

He worked in Wyoming four years as a cowboy and then, always searching for 
his father, he wandered to South Carolina, Alabama and other southern 
states, working in cotton mills, driving trucks, doing anything that came to 
hand.

Then, wandering Oklahomaward, he heard of a man named Waldroop in Okmulgee 
county. His journey ended when the door of the Waldroop home near Natura 
opened to his knock last week.

"Dad wants me to stay with him, and I guess I will, for a time at least," 
the boy said.

Norris brought word to his father of the location of his two sisters. Norris 
found his Canton sister 10 years ago, but he searched 21 years before he 
found the married sister in Jacksboro. He found her only last year.

When the wandering son went to the Waldroop home north of Natura last week 
he met for the first time his step-mother and five half brothers and 
sisters.

-Okamulgee Daily Times

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