Frederick Thumm, Thomas Hoagland and Harriett Milot, Kankakee County

Frederick Thumm was sent to Illinois in 1875 at age 11. He lived with Mrs. Grimes in Manteno, Kankakee County. After he had been there some time, Thomas Hoagland joined the household as a very small boy in 1878.

Mrs. MA Grimes was a widowed woman from England, living on a farm near Manteno, Kankakee County. She headed up a household that included her daughter, her father, and her brother, William Davis. William Davis was listed as a farmer, although Mrs. Grimes speaks of putting Fred "on one of my farms." Her grave is marked with a huge sarcophagi shaped stone in the Elmwood Cemetery of Manteno, IL, so she must have been a woman of some wealth.

Also living in Mrs. Grimes home in 1880 was Thomas Hoagland, another boy from NYJA, who was just 8 years old at that time and Harriett Milot, a young woman of 21 who appeared on the roll of the Asylum, but was never named in the reports. When Fred wrote his letter in 1882 he mentioned that two other boys were living in the Grimes household. Fred was relying on receiving a team of horses when he was of age, as well as the $100 contracted for.

No other trace of these young people remains in Illinois.