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Greencastle is in Putnam County, don't forget to check there too.
Another thing I would suggest is looking in the same counties for death records. It's
possible that his mother died in childbirth and that's how he ended up in the
orphanage. So check for deaths of young women in those counties at that time period. Keep
in mind that he could have been born to an unwed mother and given the date he was almost
certainly born at home. It's entirely possible that his birth was never recorded
anywhere.
I'm curious about the boy having been "stolen" by an orphanage worker. Where
did you get this information? Can you tell us any more about the background of these
people? There was a large orphanage in nearby Miami County that I have quite a bit of
information on. It was called the Mexico Orphanage. Children there came from all over the
state.