I'm trying to find out what happened to Viola May Cain, daughter of William Milo Cain and Elizabeth Dutton after 1910. William Milo Cain was the second husband of Elizabeth Dutton. Her first husband: George Byron Dodge.
Elizabeth Dutton Dodge Cain, Viola's mother, was the daughter 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.
Regarding Viola May Cain:
Her mother Elizabeth Dutton Dodge Cain died 7 Jul 1907 of consumption (tuberculosis) at Waupaca and is buried there at Lakeside Cemetery. Husband William Milo Cain survived, with little Viola.
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 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.
I haven't found any record for Viola after the 1910 census record (where she is residing at the Davenport, Iowa orphanage) and the newspaper articles from Sept. and Oct. 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 haven't found that Viola's father claimed her later and she lived with him. I haven't found that any other relative of hers took her in to live with them. Members of her Ogden family line were known to take in "half orphan" children of other relatives and give them solid, loving homes, so I wonder if a relative did just that after the Sept. and Oct. 1910 newspaper stories came out.
Any tips will be appreciated. Note: There were others names Viola Cain living at the time, so don't get confused.
Thank you in advance.
Added:
I MAY have found Viola (age 16) in the 1920 census 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..