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This family made adoption history today
Associated Press · March 30, 1963
Eighteen children of Chief Warrant Officer and Mrs. Francis L. Beardsley, of Carmel, made California adoption history in Salinas, Calif., today. It was largest mass-adoption in history of the state. Front row, from left, Theresa, 2; Joan, 3; Gerald, 4; Philip, 6; Germaine, 6; Jean, 7; Veronica, 8; Nicholas, 10; Susan, 10; and Thomas, 9. Back row- Janette, 12; Mary, 11; Colleen, 13; Louise, 13; Rosemary, 14; Gregory, 15; Charles, 17; and Michael, 18. Mrs. Beardsley holds son Joseph, 8 months.
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