{"id":12850,"date":"2026-01-20T20:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:10:01","slug":"the-children-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/the-children-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children Shuffle:  What Picture Does This Paint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 75px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">The world has changed a lot in the last century and a half.&nbsp; Today, if a child goes to live with another family, paperwork is involved.&nbsp; Records are kept.&nbsp; And, the legal system can follow what happens to a child.&nbsp; That was not true in my great-great grandfather\u2019s day.&nbsp; He seemed to just let other families take in his children.&nbsp; But, why?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"\">The Set Up<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\">My great-great grandfather Lemuel McCracken seemed to have a habit of shedding kids.&nbsp; In other words, they went to live with other people and often they weren&#8217;t, as far as I know, related to him in any way.&nbsp; The following tells the stories of the kids he &#8220;gave away&#8221; and the one that came to live with him.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"\">The Give Aways<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"bg-font-family-heading\">Delarma (Lawrence)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">Lawrence was Lemuel McCracken\u2019s son with his first wife, Sarah Dufer.&nbsp; Lemuel married his second wife Louisiana (Matteer) Badgley McCracken in January 1859, only nine months after Lawrence was born.&nbsp; Thus, although no record has been found, his mother appears to have died either at the time he was born or within the first few months of his life.&nbsp; In 1860, he is two years old and living in Lemuel\u2019s household with Lemuel; Louisiana; Lemuel and Louisiana\u2019s son Lemuel Franklin\/Francis; and Louisiana\u2019s children, Mary and Louis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">Separation From Family<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">By 1870, however, Lawrence is living in the household of Robert and Diana Kennedy.&nbsp; The census indicates that he has no occupation and has not attended school in the last year.&nbsp; A sixteen-year-old female and a twenty-one-year-old male are also living in the household.&nbsp; They each had different surnames.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Zachary Anthony, the twenty-one-year-old, had been living with Robert and Diana at least since he was ten and likely earlier.&nbsp; At age one, Zachary and a male that I assume was his father were living with another family.&nbsp; No mother was present and the adult male was marked as \u201cinsane.\u201d&nbsp; Thus, I believe Zachary was effectively an orphan.&nbsp; The female had not been with them as long.&nbsp; However, another female had been in the household in the previous census.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bg-font-family-heading\">Not Moving With Family<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">In 1873, Lemuel, Louisiana, and their children moved to Crawford County, Kansas.&nbsp; As far as I know, Lawrence did not travel with them.&nbsp; He is definitely not with them in 1875 when they were living in Sherman Township in Crawford County.&nbsp; Lawrence appears to have stayed behind in Iowa and live his entire adult life there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was listed in his half-sister Minnie Alameda\u2019s probate papers.&nbsp; However, she likely did not know him as she was born after the family moved to Kansas.&nbsp; However, her half-sister Mary Ann (<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Badley<\/span>) Macklin, whom she lived near would have known and remembered Lawrence.&nbsp; <em>More on Minnie later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">The Questions<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">Why did Lawrence end up living in another household?&nbsp; Did Lemuel claim he was an orphan?&nbsp; Did he actually board with them just for space? How did Lawrence living with the other family come about?&nbsp; Why didn\u2019t he move with the family?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12785\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12785\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-768x1052.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-250x342.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-550x753.jpg 550w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-800x1096.jpg 800w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-131x180.jpg 131w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry-365x500.jpg 365w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McCracken-Henry.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph (Henry) McCracken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"bg-font-family-heading\">Joseph (Henry)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">In 1871, two years before the family moved to Kansas, Louisiana gave birth to&nbsp; Joseph (Henry) McCracken.&nbsp; He was Lemuel and Louisiana&#8217;s fifth child together. Henry moved with the family to Kansas and then with them to Missouri.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Louisiana died in 1879 and Henry was with Lemuel in 1880.&nbsp; However, sometime between 1880 and 1885, he moved in with Thomas and Mary Dudley.&nbsp; It is likely that he moved in with them after Lemuel remarried to Melissa (Eveline) (Donley) McKown Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The family did appear to live close to Lemuel.&nbsp; However, that didn\u2019t last for long as they moved to Butler County, Kansas, taking Henry with them.&nbsp; Similar to Lawrence, the 1885 census indicates that Henry was not learning a trade and had not attended school in the last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Henry kept in touch with at least part of his siblings.&nbsp; Both Henry and Lawrence continued to use the last name McCracken.&nbsp; Thus, it wasn\u2019t like an adoption.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">The Questions<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">Why did Henry move in with the Dudley family?&nbsp; Why did he move away with them?&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Who<\/span> lets their child go with another family to live 150-200 miles away?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10190\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10190 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/McCrackenMinnie-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/McCrackenMinnie-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/McCrackenMinnie-250x354.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/McCrackenMinnie-550x778.jpg 550w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/McCrackenMinnie-127x180.jpg 127w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/McCrackenMinnie-354x500.jpg 354w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/McCrackenMinnie.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minnie Alameda (a.k.a. Frances E.) (McCracken) Munroe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"bg-font-family-heading\">Francis E. \/ Minnie Alameda<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">Minnie Alameda is the youngest of Lemuel and Louisiana\u2019s children.&nbsp; She was born after the family moved to Kansas.&nbsp; However, her original name was not Minnie.&nbsp; It was Frances E. <em>(full middle name unknown)<\/em>.&nbsp; Like Henry, she was with the family in the 1875 and 1880 census records.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is unclear when she left her father\u2019s home, but the story was that when they went to pick up the baby <em>(She wouldn\u2019t have been an infant.&nbsp; By baby they had to have meant the youngest.), <\/em>she cried and so they left her.&nbsp; It is unclear where she lived after Lemuel remarried.&nbsp; However, it seems likely that she lived with her older half-sister Mary Ann (Badley) Macklin near Quincy, Adams, Illinois.&nbsp; She lived in that area as an adult.&nbsp; Lemuel and Louisiana\u2019s oldest son Lemuel Franklin also lived in that area.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">The Questions<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">Did Minnie live with Mary Ann?&nbsp; Did she live with another related or unrelated family?&nbsp; Assuming she did live there, was the story about the baby crying true?&nbsp; If true, did Lemuel actually intend for her to live with him? And, why did her name change?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bg-font-family-heading\">Melissa Eveline\u2019s Children<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"\">Nothing But Questions<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">The next question on my mind is, \u201cWith Lemuel\u2019s kids scattering here and there, did Eveline\u2019s kids live with them?&nbsp; The two with her first husband would have been around 10 and 12 when Eveline married Lemuel in 1881.&nbsp; The son with her second husband would have only been a year old.&nbsp; This begs the question as to if he was the baby that cried so they left him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I do know that Eveline\u2019s youngest son was not listed in their household in 1895 when he would have been 15.&nbsp; However, a year or two earlier, a newspaper article mentioned Lemuel and his son.&nbsp; Was it Thomas?&nbsp; Was it someone else?&nbsp; As an adult, Thomas did come to visit them.&nbsp; At that time, it indicated that he left Kansas around 1895. I found no evidence that Eveline\u2019s first two children ever visited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If they didn\u2019t live with them, where did they live?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 50px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_12854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12854\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12854\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-1024x402.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-768x301.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-250x98.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-550x216.jpg 550w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-800x314.jpg 800w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-459x180.jpg 459w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-765x300.jpg 765w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1-1275x500.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Allie-Moody-1.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Freeman&#8217;s Lance, Sedan, Kansas via newspapers.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 class=\"\">On the Receiving End<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\">Although Lemuel seemed to shed his kids, he did pickup another child later in life.&nbsp; When Allie Moody\u2019s mother died, Allie went to live with Lemuel and Eveline.&nbsp; The families had been neighbors.&nbsp; According to a descendant of Eveline, Allie\u2019s father gave Lemuel and Eveline a silver pitcher for caring for his son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Allie was only a small boy and his father did come to visit.&nbsp; It seemed to be different than with Lemuel.&nbsp; What would have happened as Allie grew older is unknown as he became ill and died while in their care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 44px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<h1 class=\"\">What does this all mean?<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\">In reality, we will probably never know what all this shuffling of children really meant.&nbsp; The why, how, and when will not be fully known.&nbsp; However, I believe it is reasonable to draw some conclusions from these events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">To me, this says that Lemuel likely did not have strong bonds with his children.&nbsp; A descendant of Eveline told me that Eveline was not easy to get along with and that the same may have been true of Lemuel as well.&nbsp; This may have also played a part in the children being separated from the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I considered that the family could have just been poor and hired out or lent their children to other families.&nbsp; However, if there were close bonds with these children, the family wouldn\u2019t just move away or allow the other family to take their child a couple of hundred miles away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Furthermore, I think this may be an indicator that Lemuel, himself, was put in a similar situation when he was young.&nbsp; I know that his mother\u2019s surname was McCracken.&nbsp; However, I don\u2019t know who raised Lemuel.&nbsp; If his mother married a man who wasn\u2019t his father, he may have been \u201cgiven\u201d away or may have had to find his own way in the world.&nbsp; This may be why finding him in records, even as a count of a male that age, is so difficult.&nbsp; It would also explain why Lemuel shows up in records as a young man all alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It also may indicate some regret.&nbsp; Taking in little Allie seems like an odd thing to do for an older couple living on a small property and who are far from well to do.&nbsp; However, maybe Lemuel felt guilt or felt he had an obligation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What do you think?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 44px; padding-bottom: 75px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Featured Image:&nbsp; The original image was improved and colorized using google gemini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Prompt: What This Story Means to Me<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">#52ancestors52weeks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has changed a lot in the last century and a half.&nbsp; Today, if a child goes to live with another family, paperwork is involved.&nbsp; Records are kept.&nbsp; And, the legal system can follow what happens to a child.&nbsp; That was not true in my great-great grandfather\u2019s day.&nbsp; He seemed to just let other families take in his children.&nbsp; But, why? &nbsp; The Set Up My great-great grandfather Lemuel McCracken seemed to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mccracken"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Children Shuffle: What Picture Does This Paint? - Family History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/the-children-shuffle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Children Shuffle: What Picture Does This Paint? - Family History\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The world has changed a lot in the last century and a half.&nbsp; 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