Any OH orphanage/s for Civil War orphans? Harold MAXWELL or Allan Burton CHAPMAN
Just today I learned circuitously and serendipitiously that ancestry.com has this venue for civil war soldiers' orphans and that 2 categories were that PA had its own from I think 1862, and shortly after a sort of national civil war orphanage for both north and south in PA. So mightn't OH have had a similar state orphanage or system?
We''ve long searched for family for Mystery Grandpa Allan Burton CHAPMAN whose birth name may well have been Harold MAXWELL, born 1864. He consistently claims born in OH as were both parents - whoever they were. It's possible his father's given name was John. ABC attended WRA in Hudson, Summit Co. OH 1878-1881 and that's the earliest documentation found so far. Either someone had disposable income to pay his tuition books room & board or now a new thought -- a scholarship (at 14!) for a civil war orphan from the even-back-then liberal Western Reserve Academy.
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Re: Any OH orphanage/s for Civil War orphans? Harold MAXWELL or Allan Burton CHAPMAN
Yes Ohio had a Soldiers and Sailor's Orphanage in Xenia,OH. I believe it was started as a result of the Civil War. My great-great uncle (William Norman McGinnis)was there in 1891 and died there the same year. He is also buried on the grounds from what I read. Good luck finding additional information on your relative.
Debi
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Re: Any OH orphanage/s for Civil War orphans? Harold MAXWELL or Allan Burton CHAPMAN
Thank you! That appears to be Green Co, OH, I'll go there and ask around. Who knows, maybe I can find a ... dunno. 1870 census for Xenia might be good, to poke around.
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Re: Any OH orphanage/s for Civil War orphans? Harold MAXWELL or Allan Burton CHAPMAN
If you are still looking for the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphanage information from Ohio the Greene County Room at the Xenia Library has a list of children that were there as well as a listing of burials on the campus. You can find them online and email them. My great grandmother and her siblings were raised there and one of the sisters is buried at the chapel there as a result of a diptheria epidemic there.
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Re: Any OH orphanage/s for Civil War orphans? Harold MAXWELL or Allan Burton CHAPMAN
Debi This might be helpful to you also when checking at the Greene Co libaray: There is a book out on the home called the Pride of Ohio which all about the home and it occupants dating from the start of the home till about 1968-69. It will give you a list of the kids raised there and the date they entered into the home and date they left if they entered and graduated before the book was published. I also have this book at home , as I was raised there and found the history of the home of an interest to me. I'll be glad to look up this information if you'll contact me and give me the information that you are looking for.
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Re: Any OH orphanage/s for Civil War orphans? Harold MAXWELL or Allan Burton CHAPMAN
We are looking for a Grandfather that we know was in an Ohio orphanage. His birth name was Frank Long and he was adopted by People named Steel. Frank was born 6/23/1885 in LeMars, Iowa
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Re: Any OH orphanage/s for Civil War orphans? Harold MAXWELL or Allan Burton CHAPMAN
Debbi, do you know if this orphanage took in children from other states? I am looking for where my grandparents from Connecticut were placed as children during the civil war.
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