The Orphan Trains of Nebraska

Adella Deming

  1. Foster Name:
  2. Foster Family: Lewis and Effie Luthy
  3. Location of Family: Aurora, NE
  4. Sending Organization: Children's Aid Society
  5. Arrival Place: Aurora, NE
  6. Age on Arrival: 11
  7. Date of Birth: 1906-05-11, NY
  8. Date of Death: 1999-03-12, Brunswick, GA
  9. Gender: female
  10. Married Name: Adella (Coffey) Jankovitz
  11. Spouse Name: Ross Coffey
  12. Notes: Sometime after 1920, Adella married Ross Coffey, who died in 1927. In 1928, she remarried to George Jankovitz, and they lived in Chapman and later Aurora. After his death in 1974, Adella moved to Georgia to be near her family.
  13. Source: National Orphan Train Complex; Grand Island Independent (NE), 14 March 1999; 1920 United States Federal Census; 1930 United States Federal Census; Gravestone, Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, NE
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