Sean C. Morgan
In 1970 Joan Ann Smith was in a difficult situation. She was pregnant with her fourth child and divorced from the child’s father.
“I was on welfare, and the kids’ dad was not supporting us at all,” Smith said. She couldn’t afford a fourth child. “I had to make a decision, and I put her up for adoption.”
When her daughter, now Elizabeth Ann Ormsby, was born, that’s what Smith did. It…