Rush County Orphans Home, Rush County, Indiana, 1900

Rush County Orphans Home**

Rushville Township, Rush County, Indiana, A.D. 1900


 1 Frittes Alace    Head    W F July 1854 45 S     OH VA  PA  Matron Orphans Home 0    Y Y Y O F 100
 2 Kyser Effa       Boarder W F Dec  1876 23 D 1 1 IN NC  NC  Servent             0    Y Y Y 
 3 Kyser Linden J.  Son     W M Jan  1898  2 S     IN IN  IN
 4 Lessir Charles   Boarder W M 0    ?     ? S     IN Unk IN  At School              6 Y Y Y
 5 ? Jessie         Boarder W M Aug  1887 12 S     IN IN  IN  At School              6 Y Y Y
 6 Miller James     Boarder W M Oct  1888 11 S     IN Unk Unk At School              6 Y Y Y
 7 Ryan Albert      Boarder W M Mar  1889 11 S     IN Unk Unk At School              6 Y Y Y
 8 Opel Ernest      Boarder W M 0    0    12 S     IN IN  IN  At School              6 Y Y Y
 9 Smith Val        Boarder W M Aug  1887 10 S     IN IN  IN  At School              6 Y Y Y
10 Bill Wyatt       Boarder W M Nov  1887 12 S     IN KY  KY  At School              6 Y Y Y
11 Boatright Thomas Boarder B M Aug  1888 11 S     IN KY  KY  At School              6 Y Y Y
12 Quinshaw Fl?     Boarder B M 0    0    12 S     IN Unk Unk At School              6 Y Y Y
13 Means Willie     Boarder B M Aug  1890  9 S     IN Unk IN  At School              6
14 Lacy Ray         Boarder B M June 1893  6 S     IN KY  KY  At School              6
15 Morris Rosco     Boarder W M Nov  1891  8 S     IN IN  IN  At School              6
16 Jhonson Scott    Boarder W M Nov  1895  4 S     IN Unk Unk
17 Bill Allen       Boarder W M 0    1894  5 S     IN KY  IN
18 Tharp Elmer      Boarder W M Aug  1895  4 S     IN IN  IN
19 Goodmen Emal     Boarder W M 0    0    12 S     IN Unk Unk At School              6 Y Y Y
20 Smith Lillie     Boarder W F Oct  1887 12 S     IN Unk Unk At School              6 Y Y Y
21 Jhonson Pearl    Boarder W F Dec  1890  9 S     IN Unk Unk At School              6
22 Smith Julia      Boarder W F Feb  1892  8 S     IN Unk Unk At School              6
23 Ogle Balvy       Boarder W F 0    0    10 S     IN IN  IN  At School              6 Y Y Y
24 Brisendine Haret Boarder W F 0    0     6 S     IN Unk Unk At School              6
25 Boatright Nellie Boarder B F Aug  1893  6 S     IN KY  KY  At School              6


** Transcriber's Notes **

Please Note: This orphange was listed side by side with the Rush County Poor Asylum in the
original document.  The name(s) given in the heading of same was "Rush County Poor Asylum & Orphans
Home".  Because they were listed as two dwellings, they were divided here for transcription as well.
The transcription for the Rush County Poor Asylum may be viewed by clicking here.

Columns above represent name, relation, color, gender, birth month, birth year, age, marital status, 
children, living children, birth place, father's birth place, mother's birth place, occupation, months 
not employed, months in school, can read, can write, can speak English, home owned or rented, home 
owned free or mortgaged, number of farm schedule.  

Columns representing years married, year of immigration, years in United States, naturalization omitted
as all spaces were left blank in the original document. 

Spellings and entries given above were as such in original document.

No address was given in Census for this orphanage; the Farm schedule number was given as "100".

This census was taken June 29, 1900 by Will A. Alexander, Enumerator.

 2 Spelling given for occupation of this person was as such in original document
 4 Cannot read birth year or age 
 5 Cannot read last name with any certainty except that it appears to be a short name; could be "Rea", 
but can't say for sure. 12 Cannot read first name; looks like "Flem" CITATION Ancestry.com's Online Images, Images 17 & 18 of 18. Indiana, Rush County, Rushville Township North Half, Supervisor's District #6, Enumeration District #92, Sheet #17B.

This list was Transcribed by
Lynn Beatty
9 July 2001
for The Orphans' Home Website

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