Sad News Received: Man Thought Dead Dies

1917

MAN THOUGHT TO BE DEAD WRITES LETTER

George A. Stough Had Not Been Heard from Since 1900.

(Special to The Sentinel.)

Columbia City, Ind., July 28.—Attorney Joseph R. Harrison received a letter Friday addressed to his deceased wife, stating that her brother, George A. Stough, former ballplayer here and cornicemaker at Fort Wayne, who spent several years in Alaska during the Klondyke gold rush, had died July 20 at a San Francisco hospital and was buried the next day in Woodlawn cemetery.

Nothing had been heard from Mr. Stough since 1900, when he was seen in Nome, Alaska, by C. W. Tuttle, of this city, who was then United States commissioner at Sitka. It had been supposed Stough died several years ago. A brother died in Wyoming only a few months ago, and Stough died in all probability not knowing his sister, Mrs. Harrison, had passed away fourteen years ago. The deceased left a will, under which the principal beneficiaries are the children of Attorney Harrison, but it is not known whether Stough made his "stake" before passing away. Mr. Stough was 55 years of age.

—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 28, 1917, page 8.