The neighbors said he never worked like the rest of them, and that his patch of cultivated land was altogether too small to support his family, a wife and two daughters, grown.

He was a very smooth and affable talker, and had lots of acquaintances.

A few years afterwards Mr.Mount was convicted of a crime which sent him to the Jackson State Prison, where he died before his term expired.

I visited the Filley family in 1870, and from them heard the facts anew and that no trace of the lost boy had ever been discovered..