This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4c.2ADE/2158.1.1.1 Message Board Post: According to the 1880 mortality schedule, Horace died in Aug. 1879. On the index for the 1880 mortality schedule at Ancestry.com, it lists "Whelchels and Rolkesville." And on the top of the page where Horace is listed, it looks like the same thing. However, Rolkesville should be Polksville. For the 1880 census, Whelchels GMD 570 and Polksville GMD 810 were combined together into the 139th enumeration district, and the enumerator assigned was Howard Thompson. Because it says "Whelchels and Polksville" at the top of the Mortality Schedule, its hard to tell which GMD Horace actually lived in. I'm not sure about any mental institutions that may have existed in either of those districts at that time. However, if there was one, the patients should be enumerated all together on the 1880 census. So, you could look through every page of the 139th enumeration district and see if you find a mental institution. Good luck

As far as I know, there was only the State Mental Hospital at Milledgeville, Baldwin Co, GA. But there may have been others. I found my gg-grandmother as an "inmate" there in the 1900 census records. CENSUS: 1900 Scottsboro township, Baldwin Co, Ga, Ga. State Sanitarioum, GA Mil. Dist #321, Inmate Elizabeth Farris, White, age 55, born GA. The only record they still had on her was her death date of Jun 27, 1914. They show no record of where she was buried, nor did they still have her medical records. But her daughter also died there in 1953. I got a court order for release of the records and received her medical files. She also died there, but the death certificate they filled out was worthless. It did not list her parents names, or other info. needed to support the other info. I had found. The hospital is today called Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Ga. There is a web site for the Central State Hospital and it contained several contact persons for information about patients, etc. I emailed Wendy M. Veal, Program Assistant, HIMD, Central State Hospital Phone# (478) 445-5781 [Email: WVeal@dhr.state.ga.us]. She provided me with the date of my gg-grandmother's death. Hope this helps you find your ancestor in GA. Good luck, Billie Jones Camden, SC tjones@camden.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <tworun.mb@charter.net> To: <GAHALL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 2:25 PM Subject: Re: Hospital for insane in Whelchels and Rolkesville, Hall County in 1880? > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4c.2ADE/2158.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > According to the 1880 mortality schedule, Horace died in Aug. 1879. > > On the index for the 1880 mortality schedule at Ancestry.com, it lists > "Whelchels and Rolkesville." And on the top of the page where Horace is > listed, it looks like the same thing. However, Rolkesville should be > Polksville. > > For the 1880 census, Whelchels GMD 570 and Polksville GMD 810 were > combined together into the 139th enumeration district, and the enumerator > assigned was Howard Thompson. > > Because it says "Whelchels and Polksville" at the top of the Mortality > Schedule, its hard to tell which GMD Horace actually lived in. > > I'm not sure about any mental institutions that may have existed in either > of those districts at that time. However, if there was one, the patients > should be enumerated all together on the 1880 census. So, you could look > through every page of the 139th enumeration district and see if you find a > mental institution. > > Good luck > > ______________________________