Fortune Hunting, 1902 :: FAIL

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Published in the Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Arkansas City, Kansas on October 25,  1902.

(For the short back story, see Fortune Hunting, 1892.)

If this two sentence blurb is to believed, Aaron was very serious about his search for fortune.  Seems four years later he went to merry ole England after all?

Too bad it seems it was all a fail.

"Aaron Lashbrook was in England hunting up an estates to which he was an heir.   He found it not."

And, of course, I will now shimmy down the shiny hole of genie research to see if I can find Aaron on any ship manifest lists.  Of course.

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Fortune Hunting, 1892

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I have disappeared down a fun deep research shiny hole.  Lookie what I found published in the Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Arkansas City, Kansas, on 25 Oct 1892, Tue, Page 8.

"Aaron Lashbrook is hunting a fortune in England. He claims he is one of the heroes of the Houghton estate, which is supposed to exist there."

I have been doing research for about 24 years, give or take.  I have researched the Lashbrook clan from 12 pages to well over 850, maybe more, I am quite fearful of looking at the total pages these days.   This is the first I have heard of this little tidbit.

Note, Aaron was born between 1819 (if you believe dates found in publications, I do not) and 1827 (if you believe baptismal records from cheery ole England, I do).  So, at the time of this news bit, he was about 65 years of age.  His wife Amanda was a "Houghton".

I have written about Aaron and Amanda at least once here on Reflections.

Amanda's ancestry remains pretty much a mystery.  Of course, now, I am curious - -

Rats, another shiny research hole I can fall into - - -

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