Hickory, N.C.—Another adventure, stranger than the one which befell him a few days ago when a three-weeks-old girl baby was left on his front porch, came into the life of William G. Hoyle, local automobile mechanic, when his father, Lee Hoyle, after wandering around for 27 years, drove up in an automobile and declared his identity to the son.
Some 15 years ago Mrs. lee Hoyle married again and is now living with her second husband, Rufus McMillan, three miles from Lenoir, in Caldwell county. This couple have five children, the oldest being less than 15 and the youngest about six.
When Lee Hoyle disappeared 27 years ago his wife was told by Linberry Hoyle, his uncle, that Lee had been killed by a runaway team at a lumber mill. The wife and mother accepted the story as true. Later she married and reared five other children besides the little boy and girl by her first marriage.
Lee Hoyle has gone to Danville to visit his daughter. He said he would return to Hickory and from here would go to Greenville, S.C., to engage in the cotton business. He has been in Birmingham for the last six years. Had Lee Hoyle, like Enoch Arden, found the facts in the situation in his home, and silently departed, his story might never have been written. But he said he felt the urge to return home to see his friends and loved ones. He said he had written twice and had received no answer.
From page 5 of the Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., Sept. 27, 1923
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