The Lost and the Found

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Someone Familiar with Highway 30

The night before, Luke Wilson had been the last to go to bed shortly after midnight.

Flowers near entrance to Lisbon barn Courtesy photo L.W. Ward
A spray of artificial flowers lies in the snow near the entrance to the barn where Baby Jane Lincoln was found Nov. 10 on the Clair and Tim Wilson farm along Highway 30 about one mile east of Lisbon.
Tim Wilson said the family’s black Labrador began barking a few hours later.

“He was barking his head off between 2:30 and 3, but we came to the conclusion that was probably our paper being delivered,” Tim Wilson told the Gazette.

Cedar County Sheriff Keith Whitlatch dubbed the girl “Baby Jane Lincoln” after the Lincoln Highway, the historic name for US Highway 30 near the barn where she was found.

Whitlatch said many stores used the “Thanks for Shopping here” bag, but believed the girl’s parents were from Cedar County or a nearby area. “Someone familiar with Highway 30,” he said.

The sheriff asked people to think about those they knew who’d been pregnant and then suddenly weren’t pregnant around November 10. Hospitals across the state also were asked to report on any unexplained admissions.