I have been researching Viola May Cain, born 2 Jan 1904, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, daughter of William Milo Cain and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dutton and finally came across more info on her. I am posting it here in case someone else is researching her, her father, or her mother.

Elizabeth (Bessie) Dutton, mother of Viola May Cain, was the daughter of of Mervil S. Dutton and Alice J. Ogden of Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. Alice Ogden Dutton was a daughter of Judge Caleb Smith Ogden, Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. Elizabeth's first husband was George Byron Dodge, with whom she had 3 children: Fern/Ferne, Gertrude, and Eugene. Elizabeth's second husband was William Milo Cain. Elizabeth died of consumption (tuberculosis) 7 Jul 1907 at Waupaca. Her first husband, George Byron Dodge, and her second husband, William Milo Cain survived her.

Regarding little Viola May Cain:
By 1910, little Viola (age 6) had been placed in an orphanage, the Soldiers' Orphans Home, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa. I found her listed there in the 1910 census records. I do know that at the time single parents often placed their younger children in orphanages because they could not work and take care of the younger children at the same time. Such children with only one parent were known as "half orphans."

I found some newspaper articles from September and October 1910 reporting that 6 year old Viola M. Cain, daughter of Wm. Cain, living at Burlington, Iowa, had been located in an orphan asylum in Iowa and was an heir to part of the estate of Frank A. / F. A. Ogden of Madison, Wis. or the estate of W. A. Ogden of Madison, Wis., a great grand uncle. Her share of the 4 million dollar estate was reported to be $82,000.00.

Francis A. Ogden (known as F. A. and Frank), a younger brother of Judge Caleb Smith Ogden was a multimillionaire and did live in Madison, Wisconsin until moving to Houston, Texas where he died in 1914. William Addison Ogden was an older brother of Judge Caleb Smith Ogden. However I don't know when or where he died or if he left a large estate. He was not listed as a surviving child in the newspaper death notice for his mother who died 31 Dec 1894. So, the newspaper reports I found are questionable.

By the 1920 census, Viola MAY have been boarding at a home in Royalton Township, Waupaca County, Wis. Her surname is spelled "Kane" in that record. She was boarding with Henry and Amerilia Quandt..

Eventually, Viola married (b. 28 Oct 1884, Minnesota) on 8 Dec 1923, Dayton Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.

Attached is a JPEG image of the newspaper obituary I found for William R. Speer (d. 15 Apr 1959, Riverside Community Hospital, Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wisconsin), giving the marriage date for William and Viola Cain, along with other information.

Whew!