Zella Jackson Price, 76, a gospel in singer in the St. Louis suburb Olivette, says she was told 49 years ago that her daughter had died in a hospital hours after being born. But on Thursday, Price met that very alive daughter, Melanie Diane Gilmore. A nurse had told Jackson-Price that her baby, who was three months premature and weighed less than one pound, died shortly after birth. "She came up to me three hours later and said your baby passed," Jackson-Price told the NYDN.
Gilmore was subsequently adopted by another family, and believed that her birth mother gave her up. When she was 20, Gilmore's adoptive mother died, and she moved to Oregon to live with a relative. There, she began searching for her biological mother.
Gilmore's son and twin daughters helped search for their grandmother last year, using Facebook to track Jackson-Price down and a DNA test to confirm the match. Results came back in March, and it was "a 99.9997% match," Gilmore's daughter wrote in the description section of a YouTube video documenting the reunion.
Gilmore, who's been deaf since the age of 3, was given the news by her children via sign language. Then she was introduced to her mother for the first time in a video message
"God has given me everything the devil has taken from me," Jackson-Price said "I'm getting it back. I'm getting my baby back."
"I'm still kinda in shock. I don't know what we'll find out, what error, what was done, I don't know what we'll find out," she told the Daily News. "As soon as we get over the excitement of being together and everything, I will seek a lawyer."
Homer G. Phillips Hospital closed in 1979, and was converted into senior living apartments in 2003.
Source: New York Daily News/Mashable.com
75 comments:
Wow, it takes God for such to happen
Na wao oo.After how many yrs?Thank God
Wipe tears**
Like seriously! God is great...
Congratulation momma!!! The Lord is miraculous !!! Blood is indeed thicker than water .
Very expensive mistake
A thing of joy......imagine this kinda testimony.
Entered Comment...wow! That hospital must be sued.
Wow! God is great, after 49yrs, she jst didn't re unite wih her daughter but also with her grand kids..but 49yrs is no joke o, God knows best..
Such an amazing news..........God bepraised
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Faithful God you are..just thank God ur still alive 2 see ur daughter AGAIN..
Happy 4 dem tho
Oh wooooow!
Awwwww! Happy for them they were both alive to see a day like this...As for that nurse that told her that her daughter passed, Hmmmm. ....
PS,They both look really good for their ages
Wow!!!! 50 solid years??
So sad! But thank God for d reunioun! Bless God!
Just like a Nollywood bull crap movie
Wow! Dat ws a vry costly mistake, dey really need 2 b sued. Congrats on d reunion, so happy 4 d mother.
Wow! Dat ws a vry costly mistake, dey really need 2 b sued. Congrats on d reunion, so happy 4 d mother.
This just sounds like those Nigeria movies
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Wow,thats wonderful news for the both of them
What a wicked world! Doctors and nurses conspiracy; selling babies like groundnut.
Thank God for the happy ending.
Hmmm, Miracle. Just remember one thing;after every dark night, there's is a bright day... I call that "Faith".
eeeeya. Very happy for both of them. weird world we live in
OMG....dis is a disaster bt am so happy dey finally met
Thank God she is still alive to see her daughter alive and wow she has got grand children, blessed be to the most high God.
Wow! What a reunion, after so many years! I wish they could get answers to what really happened on that very faithful day.
Wow! What a reunion, after so many years! I wish they could get answers to what really happened on that very faithful day.
Wow! What a reunion, after so many years! I wish they could get answers to what really happened on that very faithful day.
Awwww!
Touching!
Happy for her.
Wow! Nice...this is more like a movie
Oluwatobiloba! What a restoration
Wao! I'm actually speechless. What a story? That hospital management needs to be looked into.
Wow!!! Great news congrats to them.
I am happy for them, reunion after 49 years.
Wow congrate to them. Good news
Omg....Notting is impossible.
Wow! So if this woman had died she wouldn't have had d opportunity to meet her daughter and grand kids. Nawah! That's why i don't ever let my new born out of my sight.
Wow! This is what happens When God Makes Up His Mind. He restores all the lost glory Joel 2:25.
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Wow! Thank God for dis greatness. God bless them abundantly, and take them places. God b blessed now, and forever.
Praise God!
Touching story. 49 years, still on distressed jeans? Journey still far o for this kain daughter. Check out naijacarlovers.blogspot.com
Wow. That feeling is beyond description.
Hmmmm wat rubbish,mistake...me sef go mistake break her head.
Wow... What a wonder!!! Interesting story indeed
wow, how touching, Chibok girls come to mind
Thank God, I shall recover all my lost glory
In jesus name
Miracle God
It sounds more like home movies but all the same, congratulations to them
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Wow! Great news
This is wonderful but that hospital shld be investigated,the story is not yet complete...
Wow... Hapi for dem
Awww! God is soooooooooo good!..
Don't understand this story cos how will your child die and you don't see the body? Anyway except if they took the baby away immediately....my twins were born premature and I was in hospital everyday till they came home, can't imagine any one saying they passed and they don't show me the body...somebody ga nwu that day...
Wowwww, so hapi for their re union, its not easy at all.
Oh.... To God be d glory
Vats amazing she shld lawyer matter oh since she got her dauta back greatful that they gave her name dat relate to her's
God is amazing. Can't underestimate the power of social media
African magic, but that's a serious error to be made, happy for them
joke of d day....story for the gods
Yes u right
Congrats to them.
While someppl r getting raped,duped etc,others getting married n reuniting all thanks to social media...worth being grateful to
God is great!
Congratulation!! #Tears Rolling! Thank God for this, though it took such years! At d end d devil and his agents were put to eternal shame. #ItCouldOnlyHaveBeenGod
Miraculous God
exactly, if truly the baby had died, the hospital is meant to give the body back to the family for burial. even the placenta of a living child is given to it's family talk less of a whole body, so I dont get this cock and bull story
God be praised
Grace
Really emotional. The thought of reuniting with her mother after so many years moved me to tears.
GOD is great. Linda i sight you.
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