Melvin Freeman Scudder

1904 - 1979  (74 years)

• Name	Melvin Freeman Scudder
  Birth	28 Oct 1904	Ohio
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Aug 1979	Blaine, Anoka, Minnesota   [1]
  Burial	Coon Rapids, Anoka, Minnesota
  Person ID	I17729	Scudder
  Last Modified	2 May 2013

  
  

  Father	Glenn Orman Scudder,   b. 8 Mar 1884, Harrison, Ohio d. 15 Apr 1940, Windom, Cottonwood, Minnesota (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Cora Burgess,   b. Abt 1888, New Haven, Huron, Ohio d. 1908 (Age 20 years)
  Marriage	9 Dec 1903	Crosby, Hamilton, Ohio
  Family ID	F16430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Alma B.,   b. Abt 1911, Minnesota d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1927
  Children	1. F.M. Scudder
  Family ID	F6050	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family 2	M.A. Braam
  Children	1. G.A. Scudder   2. D.W. Scudder   3. B.D. Scudder
  Family ID	F6047	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family 3	Bessie Margaret Balvin,   b. 31 Oct 1914, South Dakota d. 18 Oct 1984, Circle Pines, Anoka, Minnesota (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	7 Aug 1948	Milbank, Grant, South Dakota
  Children	1. C.A. Scudder
  Family ID	F6046	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  At the time of the 1910 census, Melvin was in the Cunningham Children's Home in Urbana, Illinois. Judge Joseph Oscar and Mary McConoughey had donated their home and land in Urbana in 1894 to the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Illinois Conference (WHMS-IC) Methodist Episcopal Church, to establish a home for needy and orphaned children. From 1895 to1949 Cunningham Children's Home provided custodial care to dependent children from the Central Illinois/West Central Indiana geographic area. Children slept in large dormitories grouped by age and sex. They were rarely true orphans. True orphans, or children who had lost both parents, were quickly placed in adoptive homes. The majority of children at Cunningham came from households whose parents were in need of some help due to the death or desertion of one parent, divorce, sickness, etc. They were brought to Cunningham by family members who then returned to retrieve them. The family paid to keep the children at the Home. Some newly-single parents surrendered their right to their children by legally giving them to Cunningham Home. These children were placed in adoptive homes, or if older, were indentured. He was an auto mechanic in 1930.

  
  

• Sources

  [S600] Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002, Certificate: 020827.