Poor House 1869

KELLY, SMITH, WILDER, WELLS, DAVIS, GALE, CONDREU, DOLON, SIAGEL, WILMER, HANNON, FITZPATRICK, LOVESS, STACK, MARAH, MORDAVILLE, DOYLE, JOHNSON, MCNEVEUS, LICHTENMEIER, HANSON, MANSFIELD, OKEFFE, LYNCH, MALONE, MONTGOMERY, GRAVES, MCDONALD, PATTERSON, WELSH, BOYERL MILLER, BUFFOU, HAYDEN, CROWLEY

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/11/2016 at 10:49:36

The Herald, Sunday February 25, 1869

POOR HOUSE
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In relation to the county poor house – after a thorough examination of the premises, the different departments of the house seemed clean and well-aired. The persons of the inmates and their clothing seemed also clean.

It is believed that the boy Wilder should be immediately taken from his partially insane mother and cared for. He is now a bright looking child, six years of age, but must become stupefied if he remains long to his present situation.it is further respectfully suggested, that the paupers of the county, those able to labor, be employed on the premises in agricultural pursuit, rather than remain idle. They might thus be made useful to the county, and at the same time, by moderate labor, benefit themselves.

The following are the names of the inmates of the county poor house, forty-five in number:

Names Age Remarks

Nellie Kelly 55 Insane
Harriett Smith 38 Insane
Will Wilder 31 Insane
Will Wells 47 Invalid
Edward Kelly 62 crippled
Mary Davis 76 Cripples
Adeline Gale 31 fits
Patrick Condreu 67 rhenmatism
Mary Condreu 76 cook
W. Dolon 69 blind
Sarah Ann Teach 39 insane
John Siagel 79 old age
Joseph Wilmer 55 insanity and fits

Nicholas Hannon 45 idiotic
James Fitzpatrick 82 idiotic
James Lovess 69 idiotic
Catharine Stack 55 insane
Mary Marah 41 insane
Ellen Mordaville insane
Arthur Doyle 76 infirm
Mary ---- 38 insane
John Condreu 71 infirm
Henry Johnson 18 crippled
Peter McNeveus 38 insane
Caroline Scott 47 insane
Joseph L. Lichtenmeier 40 insane
Fletcher Hanson 27 idiotic
James Mansfield 71 infirm
Bridget Mansfield 61 blind
Mary O’Keefe 73 infirm
John Lynch 31 crippled
James Malone 41 blind
Ralph Montgomery (col) 73 infirm
Roswell Graves 73 infirm
James McDonald 48 crippled
Loony Patterson 30 crippled
Timothy Welsh 44 invalid
Mary Boyer 35 invalid
Mary Miller 31 invalid
Hannah Buffou 25 partially insane
Miles Hayden 50 destitution
Margaret Wilder 44 partially insane
John Wilder 6 (smart boy)
John Crowley 51 lame
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All of which is respectfully submitted.
Morgan Hayes
Clerk of the Grand Jury

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