Orphan Train Riders to Leon IA, 1904

BENNETT, PECK, DECKER, DUNCAN, ORCHARD, WRIGHT, STOLZ, KELLERAN, MAIN, REMORE

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/21/2015 at 13:33:28

Orphan Train Riders, 1904
CLARKE, Herman Devillo and KIDDER, Clark.
Orphan Trains & Their Precious Cargo: The Life's Work of Rev. H. D. Clarke.
Pp. 186. Heritage Books. 2001

Distributions, Leon, Iowa, November 18, 1904.
Placed children:

Martha Virginia Bennet "Bertha Peck", born May 23, 1903, placed with Edwin M. Peck of Decatur, IA
Jennie Decker
Boy - Decker
Boy - Decker
Deckers from "respectable stock" placed through unfortunate circumstances. Oldest boy did not turn out well with a checkered career. Young boy had good Christian home, but too indulgent and he grew headstrong & uncontrollable. Girl trained in a Seventh-Day Adventist home, became a fine Christian woman, married and had one child, died in faith.

Ethel May Duncan, b. 25 Aug 1898, placed with Mrs. Fred Orchard, Decatur, Iowa. Later replaced in Osceola, & Greenfield IA and last placed in Milford, NE 27 Feb 1906 with Riley and Jennie Wright. M. 20 feb 1917 Roy Stolz of Milford. Moved to DM then to Crete NE, then back to DM. Had several children.

Madeline H.

Nora H.

Marian Kelleran, name change to Berta P. A. Kelleran, later returned to NY & House of Mercy.

Wilbur (Main?) sturdy & industrious boy, went to a farmer w/fierce temper, wife saw possibilities and his desireability. Wife held on to the boy.

Maggie Remore, relatives wanted her back in NY, she did not want to return.

This was a year of special attention to Iowa. Quite a number from the Ogdensburgh, New York Home.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2015