Orphanage Ward Lost
This file appears in: Setbacks and Tragedies Among the Orphans of Jeffersonville
Commonly, orphanages found work for older children, ending any opportunity for additional education. On October 2, 1896, Jeffersonville's Evening Journal reported that 13 year-old Virgil Brannan, whose parents died in Memphis, Indiana, sought help from the Indianapolis police when the agent engaged to take him to his new place of employment failed to meet him. The child wandered out of the bewilderingly enormous Union Station in Indianapolis to seek help. The article fails to mention whether the child reached his destination.
This file appears in: Setbacks and Tragedies Among the Orphans of Jeffersonville
Setbacks and Tragedies Among the Orphans of Jeffersonville
While most people think of orphans as children with no parents, most orphaned children had one or more living parents. The events that left children with in the custody of the orphanage included diseases and accidents that killed or disabled older…