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Mystery of Missing Youths is Solved

Mystery of Missing Youths is Solved
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Mystery of Missing Youths is Solved

“Portsmouth, November 9- A third body found in the Ohio river near here today led officials to believe the mystery surrounding the fate of three teenage youths, missing since October 16, was solved.”

Orville Elwood Jarrels, 17. Harold Littleton, 15, and Charles Mead, all of near Portsmouth, started out on October 16 in a rowboat to seek work at points down the river.”

“The boys had not been heard from since their departure. Two other bodies believed to be those of the missing youths, previously had been recovered.”1

Kentucky Certificate of Death for Charles Edward Mead2

Headstone of Charles Edward Mead at Long Run United Brethren Cemetery in Rubyville, Ohio

  1. Mystery of missing youths is solved. (1945, November 9). The Lima News, p. 1.
  2. “Kentucky, United States records,” images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q93-C9YJ-5SHM?view=explore : Jul 22, 2024), image 2246 of 3051; Kentucky. Office of Vital Statistics.
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