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    Frank B. Raymond writes on behalf of Mr. J. Harvey Sautherland, a widow with two young girls. Sautherland wants to put the girls in the Home, and Raymond asks for information regarding the process. Letter marked Eminence, KY.

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    Letter to Mr. Arthur Peter from Mrs. J. W. Caseldine, presumed wife of the Henry County Sherrif, writes from Eminence, Kentucky about a little girl elligible for coming to the home. Mrs. J. W. Caseldine confirms that before they could admit her to the Home, the little girl was taken in by her aunt. Caseldine says that it might have been better for her to go to the Baptist Orphan's Home, but she hopes her relatives will take good care of her.
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    Jno. L. O'Neal writes to the Home regarding William Pence, an orphan from the Home adopted by a Dr. Golden. He states that Pence was "fleeing from hard hands he had fallen into in Henry County," and that he knew the boy from when he stayed with a Mrs. Stewart near Anchorage. Pence told O'Neal that Golden kept him only a short time, and then passed him off to his father who mistreated him. When asked why he did not report the mistreatment to the Home, William stated he was afraid and that the neighbors "promised to write and report for him." O'Neal was going to send him back to Stanford to his sisters, but contacted the Home "so as to avoid the R. R." He asks if the Home allows "orphans to be bandied around as in shuttlecock hither and thither," or if they "scrutinize the character of applicants for them." Letter marked Eminence, KY.
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