The Orphan Trains of Nebraska

Helen Marie McDermott

  1. Foster Name: Helen
  2. Foster Family: William and Elizabeth Riley
  3. Location of Family: Hickman, NE
  4. Sending Organization: Foundling Hospital
  5. Arrival Place: Unknown
  6. Age on Arrival: 6
  7. Date of Birth: 1907-10-22
  8. Date of Death: 2002-03-17, Creighton, NE
  9. Gender: female
  10. Married Name: Helen M. Baker
  11. Spouse Name: John Paul Baker
  12. Notes: Taken into Riley home with another little girl whose birth name was Frances McConnell; Location of family my also be listed as Princeton.
  13. Source: Eloise Thomsen Corres.; Crossroads 2022-3/4, p. 17; Social Security Death Index; National Orphan Train Index; Mary Ellen Johnson, comp., Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories vol. 4 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992), p. 201-207; 1920 United States Federal Census.
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