Yes, this is the same place. The school is closed down now, since the early 70's. The cemetary is in the middle of the golf course. Recently, a former counselor for the school spearheaded a movement to erect a memorial for the children who died there. Previously they were only identified by numbered gravemarkers. This new memorial may be of interest to you since you have a relative who died there. The site of the school is now mostly a park, the golf course,and the site some of the old buildings are now the city's kindergarten. Danielle Nauman >From: "verna strickland" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [WIMONROE] Fwd: WI Child Center - Can anyone help with this >Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:08:06 -0800 > >I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I had family that was >placed in "State Public School, Sparta, WI" (orphanage) in 1901. I had >been >searching for a long time trying to find out where these children went. One >was an infant and died there, the other was indentured to a farmer. It is >my understanding that the school is no longer there, the cemetery is, but >you have to go through a golf course to get to it. I haven't been there, >but >this is what I was told. > >You can write to the Dept. of Health and Family Services, Madison, Adoption >Search Agency and they should be able to help you. I got information that I >wanted through them. If this isn't the same place your great great aunt was >placed, they still might be able to help you out. > >Verna > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 11:49 AM >Subject: [WIMONROE] Fwd: WI Child Center - Can anyone help with this > > > > > > --part1_19.19d48b3.25f1714f_boundary > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > Thanks..info below, brenda at [email protected] > > address comments to Heather and list please~ > > > > > > In a message dated 3/2/00 8:08:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > << WI Child Center > > Date: 3/2/00 8:08:12 AM Pacific Standard Time > > From: [email protected] (The Anderson-Murre Family) > > To: [email protected] > > > > Brenda, > > I recently found out that my great-great aunt was sent away to the WI >Child > > Center in Sparta in 1904, at the age of 8.We do not know why, and are >hoping > > to find out more about the family through the circumstances of this > > incident. Do you know of anyone I can contact regarding this sort of >record > > or how I can find information on what sort of place this was? > > Thanks, Heather >> > > > > > > --part1_19.19d48b3.25f1714f_boundary > > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > > Received: from rly-yd04.mx.aol.com (rly-yd04.mail.aol.com >[172.18.150.4]) >by > > air-yd01.mail.aol.com (v69.17) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:08:12 > > -0500 > > Received: from usfamily.net (xtlab.com [207.225.145.250]) by > > rly-yd04.mx.aol.com (v69.17) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:07:58 > > -0500 > > Received: from [63.225.130.72] by usfamily.net > > (Zsmtp MTA v8.0.3) > > with SMTP id com for <[email protected]>; > > Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:37:24 -0600 (CST) > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > From: "The Anderson-Murre Family" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Subject: WI Child Center > > Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:46:16 -0600 > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > X-Priority: 3 > > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > > > > Brenda, > > I recently found out that my great-great aunt was sent away to the WI >Child > > Center in Sparta in 1904, at the age of 8.We do not know why, and are >hoping > > to find out more about the family through the circumstances of this > > incident. Do you know of anyone I can contact regarding this sort of >record > > or how I can find information on what sort of place this was? > > Thanks, Heather > > > > > > --part1_19.19d48b3.25f1714f_boundary-- > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com