Statesville, August 13—After an all-night search in which the people within a radio of two or three miles of Elmwood joined, little Barbara Byford, aged, 12, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. W.R. Byford, and Miss Grace Tate of Greensboro were found Friday about 11 o’clock near Barbers Junction, eight miles from the home of the little girl’s parents. Neither had sustained any injuries.
Miss Tate, whose home is in Greensboro, had been an inmate of the State Hospital at Morganton. Some time ago she was at Dr. Long’s sanatorium here for an operation and was nursed by Mrs. Byford there. She was later taken to the Byford home at Elmwood and cared for by Mrs. Byford, who is a nurse. Mrs. Byford gave her little daughter, Barbar, instructions not to allow Miss Tate to get out of sight. Last night, when Mrs. Byford had gone to call on a neighbor, Miss Tate, who suspicioned that her father was coming to take her back to the hospital at Morganton slipped out of the house. Little Barbara, remembering her mother’s instructions not to allow her out of her sight, followed her through woods, across fields, following roads part of the way, until they were found on the railroad near Barbers. Upon Mrs. Byford’s return to her home, the alarm was given and a frantic search, joined in by the entire neighborhood, was kept up until the lost were found.
From The Charlotte News, Aug. 13, 1921
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