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Former Hancock teacher pens book about vanishing grandfather

by Geoff Fox

In 1926, Charles Baum, known by many as Bunk, left his wife and four children for work in Baltimore on the streetcar line. He never returned home.

Jeanne Ward

No clues about what happened to Bunk have been found.

The youngest child was Charles Baum, Jr., Jeanne Ward’s father.

Ward, a former Hancock teacher, has spent time researching her grandfather and what happened to him. Last year, she put pen to paper…