Simmons-Truax-Godbout-Ames Family Tree
Charles Abram Truax
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Name Charles Abram Truax Birth 9 Mar 1897 Newport (now Wadsworth), IL
Gender Male Death 13 Oct 1990 Wadsworth, IL
Burial Millburn Cemetery, Wadsworth, IL
Person ID I54 Simmons/Truax Family Trees Last Modified 6 Jul 2020
Father Andrew Nelson Truax, b. 9 Nov 1854, IL
d. 25 May 1928, Mattoon, IL
(Age 73 years) Mother Anna Prohaska, b. 1865, IA
d. 1907, Waukegan, IL
(Age 42 years) Marriage 30 Jun 1890 Iowa City, IA
Family ID F21 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sophia Alvina Depke, b. 1895 d. 1965 (Age 70 years) Marriage 2 Aug 1922 Children + 1. Glenn Aubrey Truax, b. 21 Aug 1925, Antioch, IL
d. 9 Apr 1997, Watertown, WI
(Age 71 years)Family ID F40 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Jul 2017
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Photos 
Orphanage Admission Record 1907 - Philp and Charles Truax Orphanage Record Vaccination - Philip and Charles Truax 
Orphanage Record of Families/Assessments 1910 - Philip and Charles Truax 
1910 Census - Charles Truax at Methodist Deaconess Orphanage, Lake Bluff, along with brother Phil
After their mother died, the Truax boys were placed in various locations. Charles & Phil were placed in this orphanage.
Orphanage Record Visits to other Households 1912 - Philip and Charles Truax 1910 Lake Bluff Orphanage
I don't have a roster of names, but Phil Truax would have been about 10-11 years old, and his brother Charles 12-13 years old.

Charles A. Truax Newspaper clipping 1990 from HistoricMilburn.org 
Philip, Charles Truax and sister, 1919
From Lake Bluff Orphanage historical images. Not sure if this is Lulu Truax (older sister) or Werdna "Belle" Truax (youngest sister).Charles Truax - 1920
A photo from the orphanage archives, dated 1920.
