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Subject: [INHENDRI] Cynthia McDANIEL death
Date: 26 Dec 2003 07:20:03 -0700

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Surnames: McDANIEL
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NOTE: I am not related to this family--I found this while looking for something else.

Danville Gazette (Danville, Indiana)—Thursday, May 11, 1911—page 1, column 6:

PATHETIC CASE

Grief, Caused By Wayward Son, Brings Insanity and Death to Mother

Grief, occasioned by the absence of her only son whose whereabouts she did not know and which preyed on her mind until she was a subject for the insane asylum, finished its work of disintegration, Tuesday morning, and now the body of Mrs. Cynthia McDaniel lies at the home of her husband, southeast of town, awaiting burial. Death occurred at the Central Hospital for the Insane, of which institution she had been an inmate the past two years.

The story of the aged mother’s longing for the son who came not is a pathetic one. Some ten or twelve years ago, Elias McDaniel, son of Mr. and Mrs. David McDaniel, on account of real or fancied grievances, left home and since that time he has never communicated directly or indirectly with his parents. The mother idolized the son and she worried over his action until her mind became unbalanced. The blight of insanity did not efface the memory of her boy and she continually talked of him. The last words she spoke before death sealed her lips was his name.

Elias McDaniel, after leaving his home, went to Oregon, where he remained a number of years. A messenger, who was sent after him several years later at the entreaty of his mother, located him at Portland after a search that reads like fiction. Jasper Thompson conducted the search and found the man by accident. After exhausting all clews [sic] in vain, he stepped into a fruit store in Portland and something prompted him to ask the proprietor about McDaniel. It happened that he knew the missing man. Through this man McDaniel was found and the mother’s plea delivered. McDaniel, however, refused to return home. When Mr. Thompson started to leave McDaniel requested that he be notified in case his mother died, but no message of cheer was sent her. Mr. Thompson received letters from McDaniel at intervals up until 1908. During the latter part of 1908 Thompson sent him a letter and three months later it was returned as unclaimed. Since then absolutely nothing has be!
en heard from him and it is believed he is dead.

The funeral of Mrs. McDaniel will be held today. Interment will be in the South cemetery.

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