MISSING CHILDREN OF THE PAST JAN. 2010
MISSING CHILDREN OF THE PAST DEC. 2009
MISSING CHILDREN OF THE PAST
NOV. 2009
MISSING CHILDREN OF THE PAST FOR OCT.2009
MISSING CHILDREN OF THE PAST FOR
SEPT. 2009
Out in the cold world and far away from home,
Some mother's boy is wandering all alone,
With no one to guide him or keep his footsteps right,
Some mother's boy is homeless tonight.
Oh, bring back to me my wandering boy,
For there is no other who's left to give me joy,
Tell him his mother, with faded cheeks and hair,
Is at the old home awaiting him there.
Genealogists often run into a brick wall in finding an ancestor. They trace the relative to a person's late 20's and then they disappear. Often they disappear because of their leaving home or disappear in their teens. The reasons:
- The railraod was the airplane of the time and young people mostly boys were fasinated with the world that the train could take them to so many left to seek their fortunes elsewhere. They became Hobo's
- Others disappeared into orphanages when their parents died.
- Others sought work ion farms, the Railroads and lumber camps.
- Others were kidnapped.
- Others disappeared with a relative.
- Others were placed in reform schools by parents.
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Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina is a statewide nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis with a mission of "helping hurting children...healing broken families". Established in 1885 as the Baptist Orphanage, Mills Home in Thomasville is BCH's oldest and largest campus.
Children living at the Orphanage 1900 (U.S. census)
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