Henry, Lizzie, and Anna Jucker, Orphan Train Riders

Henry Jucker (1889 - 1919)

The report of 1904 places Henry Jucker in Vermont, IL. The 1900 census places him in Eldorado, McDonough County with Wellington Kennedy. Anna Jucker, his sister, lived in the same family.

Henry Jucker went on to become the acting editor with the Canton Ledger (Fulton County) and a newspaper reporter (WWI draft card). He married Flossie Jennings before 1910, but died in 1919. Flossie had a claim of just $703 to the estate of her husband to support herself and their 7 year old son, Victor. Flossie continued to live in Canton and worked at the paper as a linotype operator for the same paper her husband had reported for, a physically taxing job. Yet, unlike her husband's parents, Flossie was able to maintain a home and keep her son.

Anna Jucker (b. 1886) married Robert Conway some time before 1910 and had seven children: Lyle, Robert, Catherine, Gerald, Harold, James, and Marjorie. They lived in Marion, Iowa at the time of the 1910 census, but lived in Camden, Schuyler County, Illinois when a second son was born in 1914. Anna and her husband were both living in 1940, but no death date is known for either of them.

Lizzie Jucker was sent to Bethalto, IL to live with Mrs. Oetkin. She served out her entire indenture there. In one letter she reports that Henry and Anna visited her in Bethalto and they all enjoyed the St. Louis World's Fair together. I have been unable to trace Lizzie Jucker any farther.

UPDATE: I traveled to Canton, IL and learned that all of the 1919 Canton Ledger is lost. I was unable to locate an obituary for Henry Jucker, except a very short one in a competing newspaper.