KCH Orphan Train Children By Home County

Description

After the publication of the first book, The Trigg County Connection to the Kentucky Children’s Home, further information was discovered in a ledger book titled By Home County, stored at the Kentucky  Department of Libraries and Archives (KDLA) in Frankfort, Kentucky. The ledger book contains a list of children from every county in Kentucky that were removed from their homes from 1895 until around 1936 and placed in the Kentucky Children’s Home (KCH) in Louisville. Each county list contains the name of the child, file number, name of the county judge, home city, date committed and written notes. This companion book to The Trigg County Connection to the Kentucky Children’s Home contains all the information found in the By Home County ledger book. In this new book, KCH Orphan Train Children by Home County,  also includes information found in a book titled General Information Ledger written in 1912 by District Superintendent, D. B. Waller. The ledger book contains information about central Kentucky train routes used by the Kentucky Children’s Home along with the cost of train fares, hotels and restaurants, children names and county officials. I have only included information about the train routes and a map of the central Kentucky area at the end of this book. The General Information Ledger is part of the KCH records at the KDLA. Copies of this ledger can be obtained by following the same procedure you would use to get copies of a child’s records.

This companion book will benefit individuals, historical societies, and genealogical sections of county libraries as they search for children that had been committed to the Kentucky Children’s Home from their county.  With this information, copies of files can be obtained, family members found and questions surrounding what happened to these children will be answered. The first page contains miscellaneous information about children that are not listed in the county records. The counties in this book are listed alphabetically; every county in Kentucky had children sent to the Kentucky Children’s Home.