On occasion, brothers and sisters had to be separated. This caused many tearful separations.

Wahlmeier: They tried to keep siblings together as much as they could. Mostly they just tried to put them in the same area. Most people did not want to take more than one child.

Cornell: “They came in and we was on the very far end, the very end. And when he got down to us, he talked to us and asked us our name and if we’d like to live on a farm, and we could have a pony to ride and things like that, we said sure, and shook our head. Well, he was only going to take one of us.  Now, I do not remember which one he had chosen. Whether he even pointed or said who but my brother Vic was holding on to my hand, just gripping it, crying, did not want to be separated.”