Dear Listers, Does anyone know the starting operational dates of the Children's Home in Cambridge? The reason I ask is that my great grandfather, Owen Foster Stanton, was transferred to the Licking Co., Infirmary in Newark around 1855 and the only thing stated in his card file was that he was a pauper and "a resident of Guernsey Co., Ohio, in Newark Twp., six weeks". I don't know whether this meant he had lived in Guernsey or had been transferred from Guernsey. The Newark Infirmary was also known as a poor house. If the Children's home was not operational back then, does anyone know of a poor house or a prior incarnation of the Children's Home in Guernsey? I know I'm grasping at straws here. I don't have much else to go on as no other records seem to exist for Thomas N. and Elizabeth Stanton, Owen's parents. Since the children were put in a home, they might also have been born indigent and a record might exists at an infirmary of their birth. Elizabeth may have died in childbirth as there is no more mention of her. The father did serve in the Navy during the war but disappears afterwards. Any help would be appreciated. Denny Shirer - drdx@neo.rr.com Shirer Family Genealogy Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysong