Rows of Beds

ID: 2396 ~ Source: General photograph collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library.
This file appears in: A Murdered Mother
Rows of Beds

This photo shows the rows of beds awaiting orphans at the St. Vincent’s School for Boys in Vincennes, which later became St. Vincent’s Orphanage. Considering the large number of children at the orphanage when the 1940 U.S. Census was taken, conditions must have been similarly crowded when the O’Neill children stayed at St. Vincent’s.

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By Jeffersonville Township Public Library
In May of 1927, at the height of the Prohibition Era, twenty-six year-old Mary Catherine Kamer wed thirty-eight year-old Joseph O’Neill in Jeffersonville. O’Neill had immigrated to Jeffersonville from Ireland where he became the business partner of…