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"I Wanted To See My Birthplace" • John Coco "I Was Legally Adopted" - Elsie Chmielewski "I Know My Mother Loved Me" - Marion Strittmatter "I Was So Excited I Couldn’t Sleep" - Margaret Weber "I Was Never Told I Was Adopted" - Mary Ellen Pollock "I’m NOT An Orphan" - Hazelle Latimer "Indentured But Never Adopted" - Aloysius Inhern "Jack Of All Trades" - George Nelson "Learned To Hate At An Early Age" • Paul Forch "Letter Asking For Forgiveness" - William ’Billy’ Pierson "Life Of An Orphan, 80 Years Ago" • Maud Slyter "Locked In Sheds Without Food" - Francis Wilson "Mother Died Five Days After I Was Born" - Albert Comeau "Mother Known Only As ’Nellie’" - George Anthony Thompson "Mother Never Talked About Her Early Life" - Ethel Metz "My Childhood Days in the Orphanage" - Mamie Rose "My Life Began When I was 3 1\2 Years Old" - W. P. Dunnaway "New England Home For Little Wanderers Child" - Mary Wagner "No One Ever Inquired About Him" • Henry Segar "Not ’Little Lord Fauntleroy" - Emil Brinkerhoff "One of The Luckiets Persons On Earth" - Guy De Leo 'Orphan Train Riders Raised As Sisters" - Mary Maresh "Orphan Became Mayor" - Martin Roy "Orphan’s Prayer" - Marian Christiansen "Orphanage Served Broiled Onions" - Edith Shingleton "Orphange Became My Home" - Bill Oser "Papa Will Come For Us" - Leona Stowe "Pennsylvania Coal Mining Family Took Joe" - Joseph McMonigle "Popular Girl With A Twinkle In Her Eyes" - Mae DePaoli "Ray of Sunshine" - Anita Sprout
"Recollections of an Orphan Train Rider" William Paul Landkamer
"Sang To By Lady In Blue" - John Williams
"Sat On The Floor In The Corner And Cried" • Josephine Delger
"She Rode To Wisconsin On An Orphan Train" - Gracie Mosgaller
"She Made The Right Choice" - Natalie Perrino
"Sisters Apart For 31 Years" - Adeline Trowbridge
"Small Clue Lead To Truth" - Anne Harrison
"Spoiled by the People Who Took Me" - Peg Kildare
"The Nun Made My Hair Into Banana Curls" - Helen Eastin
"They Grew Up As Brothers" - Leon Rivers
"Treasures and Memories Money Can’t Buy" - David Schafer
"Twins Reunited With Two Other Brothers" - Rogers Brothers
"Unable To Locate Family" - Charlotte McGowan Breaux
"UNSOLVED MYSTERIES Found My Brother Joseph" - Sylvia Wemhoff
"What Does It Feel Like To Be An Orphan?" - Marguerite Thompson
"Why Didn’t Anyone Ever Try To Find Me?" - Alice Sellman


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