Pearl Fry
This file appears in: Better Tidings
For children born into extensive local families, placement in the home of a relative often substituted for becoming a ward of the orphanage. This article from the Jeffersonville Weekly Journal, February 12, 1897, advertises a fundraiser to pay for the college education of Pearl Fry, 19, who was raised by her grandparents William and America Young of Charlestown.
This file appears in: Better Tidings
Better Tidings
The lives of local orphans were never all tragic. Happy memories and great achievements marked some of their lives, often because of the intervention of their extended families or the kindness of people in the community.
From the beginnings of…