Rusty Jenkins presents a Natchez History Minute about his ancestor, William Dunbar, who embarked on an expedition of the Red River in 1804 at the request of President Thomas Jefferson. The first letter between Dunbar and Jefferson, two "men of science," was written by the future president on this day, June 24 in 1799. | Natchez National Historical Park

In 1912, a 4-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar disappeared during a family trip to Swayze Lake, Louisiana. After eight months of searching, the police found a boy in Mississippi with a handyman named William Walters. Walters insisted the boy was actually Bruce Anderson, the son of a woman who worked for his family. But the Dunbars claimed him as their son. The boy seemed to fit, and with no modern DNA tests back then, the court ruled in their favor. Walters was arrested, and the child grew up as B

In August 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished during a family fishing trip at Swayze Lake, Louisiana. His parents searched for months — but Bobby was gone. Eight months later, police in Mississippi found a boy traveling with a handyman named William Cantwell Walters. Walters claimed the child was four-year-old Bruce Anderson, the son of Julia Anderson — not Bobby Dunbar. When the boy was found, Julia came forward and said, “That’s my son, Bruce.” She was a single mother who worked as a fie

Bobby Dunbar was an American boy whose disappearance at the age of four and apparent return was widely reported in newspapers across the United States in 1912 and 1913. After eight months of nationwide searching, investigators believed that they had found the child in Mississippi, in the hands of William Cantwell Walters of Barnesville, North Carolina. Dunbar’s parents claimed the boy as their missing son. However, both Walters and a woman named Julia Anderson insisted that the boy with him was