She was adopted by John Hinderken Berends Gontjes and Geeske Janssen Buse. This is what we have learned about her;
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Discovery Made through an Items in Sibley Paper: Through publications in a Sibley newspaper two long separated sister have been discovered to each other. About thirteen years ago Dora Todd, age 7 years was adopted into the John Goutjes family near Sibley.
She never heard of any of her blood relatives until this week, when a letter from her sister, Miss Nina Todd, of Waynoki, Oklahoma delivered to her. the name of the family to who Dora was given had been forgotten by the agent of Chicago institution woman for 20 years, and goes by the name of her foster parents. Her sister is five years older.
Pocahontas County Sun - Jan 13, 1910, Laurens Iowa also in
Sioux county Herald - Jan 12, 1910 Orange City, Iowa
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Thomas Jefferson Todd born 30 Sept 1849, Ohio, died 22 May 1923, Rocky Rim, Hancock, Illinois and Emma Christine Longcor born 6 Dec 1852, Illinois and died 19 Feb 1896, Illinois.
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Discovery Made through an Items in Sibley Paper: Through publications in a Sibley newspaper two long separated sister have been discovered to each other. About thirteen years ago Dora Todd, age 7 years was adopted into the John Goutjes family near Sibley.
She never heard of any of her blood relatives until this week, when a letter from her sister, Miss Nina Todd, of Waynoki, Oklahoma delivered to her. the name of the family to who Dora was given had been forgotten by the agent of Chicago institution woman for 20 years, and goes by the name of her foster parents. Her sister is five years older.
Pocahontas County Sun - Jan 13, 1910, Laurens Iowa also in
Sioux county Herald - Jan 12, 1910 Orange City, Iowa
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Thomas Jefferson Todd born 30 Sept 1849, Ohio, died 22 May 1923, Rocky Rim, Hancock, Illinois and Emma Christine Longcor born 6 Dec 1852, Illinois and died 19 Feb 1896, Illinois.
She was adopted by John Hinderken Berends Gontjes and Geeske Janssen Buse. This is what we have learned about her;
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Discovery Made through an Items in Sibley Paper: Through publications in a Sibley newspaper two long separated sister have been discovered to each other. About thirteen years ago Dora Todd, age 7 years was adopted into the John Goutjes family near Sibley.
She never heard of any of her blood relatives until this week, when a letter from her sister, Miss Nina Todd, of Waynoki, Oklahoma delivered to her. the name of the family to who Dora was given had been forgotten by the agent of Chicago institution woman for 20 years, and goes by the name of her foster parents. Her sister is five years older.
Pocahontas County Sun - Jan 13, 1910, Laurens Iowa also in
Sioux county Herald - Jan 12, 1910 Orange City, Iowa
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Thomas Jefferson Todd born 30 Sept 1849, Ohio, died 22 May 1923, Rocky Rim, Hancock, Illinois and Emma Christine Longcor born 6 Dec 1852, Illinois and died 19 Feb 1896, Illinois.
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Discovery Made through an Items in Sibley Paper: Through publications in a Sibley newspaper two long separated sister have been discovered to each other. About thirteen years ago Dora Todd, age 7 years was adopted into the John Goutjes family near Sibley.
She never heard of any of her blood relatives until this week, when a letter from her sister, Miss Nina Todd, of Waynoki, Oklahoma delivered to her. the name of the family to who Dora was given had been forgotten by the agent of Chicago institution woman for 20 years, and goes by the name of her foster parents. Her sister is five years older.
Pocahontas County Sun - Jan 13, 1910, Laurens Iowa also in
Sioux county Herald - Jan 12, 1910 Orange City, Iowa
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Thomas Jefferson Todd born 30 Sept 1849, Ohio, died 22 May 1923, Rocky Rim, Hancock, Illinois and Emma Christine Longcor born 6 Dec 1852, Illinois and died 19 Feb 1896, Illinois.
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