I have recently found a Henry A. Saake and a William Saake on a list of children sent on an orphan train to Iowa. They were "adopted" by Rev. Henry Bode (my relative) and Tonjes Meyers both of Grundy County Iowa. There is no assoicated date or date by implication. Any chance these are related to you? They can be found, using Google, using "orphan trains to Iowa". The information is an index of known orphans to Iowa. It's not that common of a name and I thought it might be someone your knew. By the way this "adoption" probably occured sometime between 1880 and 1920 or so.
Jill