2 Feb 1855 - Child lost on Sunday morning about 10 A.M., F.H. Tinkle [T.H.], a boy, 11 years of age & stepson of Christopher Bone [Bowman] who resides two miles S.W. of London on Buck Creek in this county, started out with three days rabbit hunting. As he did not soon return his parents went in search of him. They followed his tracks to Boggstown, when it became so dark as to prevent further pursuit. Next morning his track was followed into the woods near Wray's Meeting House, where it was lost by drifting snow. Mrs. Nail (of the neighborhood) says she heard a boy hollow [sic] and then cry, in the woods near her residence about 8:00 o'clock Sunday night. It is supposed that of the lost boy. Four days were spent this week by more than 100 men in searching the county for the lost boy. Yesterday he was found in a field near Fessenbecks, frozen to death and almost entirely destroyed,as it was supposed by the hogs that were in the field. What a horrible scene this must have been. A poor little boy wandering from his parents in good health & after 4 days of anxious suspense, to find a mangled corpse. It is said that one of the dogs was still with him when found.
