Mabel having been left as a foundling at the Stephenson County Care Farm 31 March 1900, which is believed to be the day of her birth. She had immediately been accepted by a middle-aged couple, Charles C. Zimmerman and Arabelle E. Grimes, who had decided to relieve their childlessness and had been waiting for a suitable orphan baby to turn up at the charity house. They had found Mabel to be just what they wanted, and the formal adoption had been completed 27 September 1900. Mabel had then spent the period from infancy to adolescence on the Zimmerman farm in rural Stephenson County, and her teens in Freeport, the place her parents had chosen to retire.
Mabel having been left as a foundling at the Stephenson County Care Farm 31 March 1900, which is believed to be the day of her birth. She had immediately been accepted by a middle-aged couple, Charles C. Zimmerman and Arabelle E. Grimes, who had decided to relieve their childlessness and had been waiting for a suitable orphan baby to turn up at the charity house. They had found Mabel to be just what they wanted, and the formal adoption had been completed 27 September 1900. Mabel had then spent the period from infancy to adolescence on the Zimmerman farm in rural Stephenson County, and her teens in Freeport, the place her parents had chosen to retire.
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