18 August 1959 – “Marian Carpenter, 3, missing from her grandfather’s Appomattox County home for more than a day, was found safe and sound by a search party yesterday.
“The child, a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., was visiting here. She wandered away from her family Sunday afternoon.”
Source
“Missing Child Found Unharmed,” The Progress-Index (Petersburg, Virginia), 18 August 1959, pg. 10.