Would a child of 13 still be in the Children's home? My grandmother, Margaret Elizabeth (Butterfield) Davis was 13 in June of 1900 at the Census. Her mother had died in 1895 and grandma said she'd been sent to an Aunt over in Dade County. I've searched all those census, and can't find the Aunt or my grandmother. I'm beginning to wonder if she could have been placed in the children's home, even though her father lived in Joplin, and had kept the 2 oldest children with him, farming out the other 4. I found 2 of them with the grandmother Butterfield in Dade Co., but Grandma and her youngest brother have not shown up in the Census for 1900. I DO find her in 1910 - 5 years after her marriage, and her youngest brother, by then 18 living with their father. Thanks Margaret Rollins, yoyo4233@aol.com
I have not as yet proven it, but my mother said that she and her sister and brother were put into an orphanage after her mother died and their house burned. Apparently my grandfather wasn't able to keep a house together for them until he remarried. Near as I can tell, my mother was 11 or 12 when her mother died. I believe that the fire must have been after that, so my mother would have been about the same age as your grandmother. I think your gma could very well have been in the Home. Adhaniá ----- Original Message ----- From: <Yoyo4233@aol.com> To: <MOJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: [MOJASPER] Re: MOJASPER-D Digest V02 #106 > Would a child of 13 still be in the Children's home? My grandmother, > Margaret Elizabeth (Butterfield) Davis was 13 in June of 1900 at the Census. > Her mother had died in 1895 and grandma said she'd been sent to an Aunt over > in Dade County. I've searched all those census, and can't find the Aunt or > my grandmother. I'm beginning to wonder if she could have been placed in the > children's home, even though her father lived in Joplin, and had kept the 2 > oldest children with him, farming out the other 4. I found 2 of them with > the grandmother Butterfield in Dade Co., but Grandma and her youngest brother > have not shown up in the Census for 1900. I DO find her in 1910 - 5 years > after her marriage, and her youngest brother, by then 18 living with their > father. > > Thanks > Margaret Rollins, > yoyo4233@aol.com > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.343 / Virus Database: 190 - Release Date: 3/25/02