Allegheny County PA Archives-  News: Nugent-Werren, Jun 1916

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McDonald PA Outlook, 24 Jun 1916

Mrs. Sarah NUGENT WERREN of Steubenville, Ohio, in looking over a list of 
applicants for license in a Pittsburgh paper in April, saw the name of 
Daniel NUGENT, of Southside, Pittsburgh. Having been separated when an 
infant from her mother, Sarah NUGENT, she new nothing of her relatives and 
wrote to Daniel. He told her the names of his relatives and traced her 
relationship. She met Dan in Pittsburgh, May 13, and a family reunion took 
place. The long-lost Sarah was brought by Mrs. Dan NUGENT and daughter, to 
visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. John NUGENT, now Mrs. TOUHEY, of 811 Idlewood 
avenue, East Carnegie. John NUGENT died some years ago ... his widow and 
several ... and daughter.
 
Sara NUGENT's mother died in Pittsburg during the cholera 
epidemic nearly 60 years ago, and the little girl mysteriously disappeared 
when six years old. She was placed in the county home and when 11 years old 
went to live with the old GLENN family at Noblestown, where she remained 40 
years and then married Robert WERREN, moving to Steubenville where WERREN 
died three years later, and she since lived alone.
 
She remembers the names of her brothers and sisters, especially 
John, because he wore a red dress when a baby, and she recalls that her 
father used to set her on a horse's back occasionally. She does not 
remember her mother nor the name of the town where she lived.
 
The family made many efforts to locate Sarah, but were 
unsuccessful and gave up the search years ago. She learned through Mrs. John 
NUGENT TOUGHEY that her mother is buried in old Trinity church yard, 
Pittsburgh, and remarked that "It will be the greatest thing on earth to see 
my mother's grave."
 
It seems hardly possible that a person could live till the age 
of 40 at Noblestown, within 8 miles of two brothers and a sister and yet 
have no way of locating them. There is every possibility that she rode on 
the same trains or passed them on the streets of Carnegie, as she was there 
occasionally, and has upwards of 25 relatives here.
 
James NUGENT, a brother, married a daughter of the late Louis 
HARD and his son Dan, lived at the Hard tavern on East Main street, 
attending the old frame Mansfield borough school 35 years ago. He will be 
remembered by some of the old pupils who are now between 40 and 50 years 
old.--Carnegie Item