For Fifty Years They Thought He Was Dead.
When the Civil War was ended and Laurentine F. Higby failed to return to his home in Exeter, members of his family finally decided he had been laid away in one of the many battlefield graves filled with unidentified dead.
Higby, however, was not dead. He had been wounded in action, and when he recovered, he forgot his past, and, after the war, went to Kansas, married, and reared a family, later going to Wilmington, Ill. He remembered only that he had served in the army and applied for a pension under the name of Lauren F. Higby.
Government pension-office agents identified him through communication with relatives in Exeter, and now they are on the way to Wilmington for a reunion with the man they had thought dead for fifty years.
Higby served with Battery A, First New York Volunteers.