The Orphan Trains of Nebraska

Catherine Stephanie Volk

  1. Foster Name: Sylvia Catherine
  2. Foster Family: John and Marie Miick
  3. Location of Family: Lindsey, NE
  4. Sending Organization: Foundling Hospital
  5. Arrival Place: Columbus, NE
  6. Age on Arrival: 3
  7. Date of Birth: 1918-10-10, Brooklyn, NY
  8. Date of Death: 2008-04-18, Omaha, NE
  9. Gender: female
  10. Married Name: Sylvia Wemhoff
  11. Spouse Name: George J. Wemhoff
  12. Source: Eloise Thomsen Corres.; Charlotte Endorf and Sarah M. Endorf, By Train They Came: Fragile Excess Baggage vol. 2 (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2007), p. 28-32; Email, Laura Rinschen to Lloyd Castner, 7 July 2011, file; Obituary in unknown newspaper, likely Omaha, 21 April 2008.
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