NBC News
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It had been more than 17 months since Hinds County authorities declared the body of Jonathan David Hankins , 39 , “unclaimed’ and buried in a pauper’s field.
For more than a year and a half after he disappeared from their home in May 2022 , Gretchen searched and prayed that he would come home.
She finally learned of her son's death and burial in December , after NBC News found his name on a list of people who’d been given paupers burials.
By the time pallbearers carried Jonathan ’s casket to the graveside, about 50 people had gathered for the ceremony.
“Jon was a good man,” Thomas Goolsby , who’d offered a $ 15,000 reward for information, eulogized his best friend as a loving son and devoted father.
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