Would any of you have in your family/census/research records any Eads/Eade/Eades child(ren), especially a Martha Alice Eads, b. 5 Jan. 1868, who attended boarding school or was in an orphanage in MO area? I'm also looking for any siblings she may have had. I have her death cert. (FL) but for both her parents it only says "unknown." She mentioned a brother/cousin whom she called Mitchel, but we don't know if he was in the school with her. She was my gr-grandmother who went to work as a housekeeper for Azariah Thomas Paschall in Benton Co., AR, soon after she got out of the boarding school/orphanage. She apparently didn't have parents and she said she looked for her family, but couldn't find them (she was a teenager - 13-16 - when released from the school). Surely, if it was a boarding school that would be receiving payments from her family, it would notify the family that they were releasing her, but she said she had not heard from her family at all while she lived in the sch! ool and that she was called into the office one morning and told to pack her things because she was being discharged (with other students), and then she was taken "to town" where the driver helped her down from the wagon and even though she explained that she had no money and nowhere to go, he said he was sorry and left her there. It also has been suggested that possibly she was released because of non-payment of her tuition. According to what little she was remembered saying about this, she was in a frantic state not knowing where to go or how to get by. Thankfully, one lady noticed her distress and assisted her, providing her room and board and through the lady's contacts, she was referred to A.T. Paschall (in AR) for a job housekeeping. We think she may have been an orphan, but we don't know for sure. We don't know what boarding school/orphanage it was and haven't been able to find any lists of MO boarding schools/orphanages operating in that time frame and don't know how! to find their records, if we do find that list since probably most or all of them no longer exist. Since there's the distinct possibility she was Native American, tribal connection not known, there's also that possibly trail which have not been able to track to anything or anybody so far. Azariah Thomas Paschall was a widower as of 1881, and a single parent to an infant, and he married our Martha Alice Eads on 30 May 1886, in Benton Co., AR (we have a copy of their marriage license). But the mrg. lic. didn't give any info. on her parents or where she was born. Help would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me at: littleowlalp@yahoo.com . Thank you - Annadella Paschal (my maiden name which I kept)