Orphanages in Arizona - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Orphanage in Phoenix in early 1900s

mattbeck_1 — 8 Oct 2003 3:12:59 GMT

I am trying to find information on an orphanage that was in operation in or around Phoenix in the early 1900s. It may have burned down sometime after 1920, but my information is sketchy.

Orphanages of Arizona?

VivianTanis — 26 Nov 2001 12:52:57 GMT

Does anyone know of a orphanage/indian boarding school c. 1914 around the Phoenix, AZ area?
My grandfather Juan Cabrera Nevarez was half Hopi and half Mexican American and became an orphan around 1914. His mother Maria Jesusita Cabrera died when he was 6 (1909) and his father died when he was 11 (1914) and her family wouldn't take him because he was an indian.
Anyways, he did mention he was in an orphanage/boarding school but soon ran away because of the treatment he received.
I would like to see if I can obtain some records about him if one existed or records were moved to an archive.

possible Gale sibling b. abt 1930 in Tucson

SallyAdams56 — 16 Oct 2005 8:38:40 GMT

Am doing genealogy research and found a gap in my mother's history, so wonder if I have a sibling born around 1930 in Tucson. Mother's maiden name was Gale.

St Joseph's Orphanage, Tucson AZ 1930.

rachel1942 — 9 Dec 2003 2:18:27 GMT

While searching the 1930 census I found my half brother and sister listed as "inmates" in St Joseph's Orphanage Tucson AZ. They were 3 and 5 years old.

The names are Frances O SLAUGHTER and John H. SLAUGHTER. Later this last name was changed to KING.

Where can I find more regards regarding the Orphanage and records. My dad placed Frances and John in this orphanage after the death of his wife during childbirth. Their newborn child also died.

How can I find more information/records regarding the orphanage and their stay. My aunt (Minnie A ) and uncle Arthur V KING came from CA and removed them and raised them along with their children. They changed the last name of my siblings from SLAUGHTER to KING.

My dad and family had full loving contact with the children during his lifetime. Dad died in 1975 and that is the last time I saw my sister Frances. She would be 78 years old now (2002) and I believe she lives in the Sacramento CA area.

My brother Johnnie died in 1980.

Any ideas for further research? Besides Frances, I am the last direct line of William R. and Sarah Slaughter, who were our grandparents. Wm R died in AZ and Sarah died in CA.

Thank you.