The Orphan Trains of Nebraska

Mary Leggan

  1. Foster Name: Mary
  2. Foster Family: Mathew and Anna Dreifurst
  3. Location of Family: Platte County, NE
  4. Sending Organization: Foundling Hospital
  5. Arrival Place: Columbus, NE
  6. Age on Arrival: 3
  7. Date of Birth: 1908-06-29, New York, NY
  8. Date of Death: 1970-05-13
  9. Gender: female
  10. Married Name: Mary Heesacker
  11. Spouse Name: Clarence Heesacker
  12. Source: Humphrey Democrat (NE), 29 December 1911; Mary Ellen Johnson, comp., Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992). n.p.; Eloise Thomsen Corres.; 1920 United States Federal Census.
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