This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ih.2ADE/1210.1 Message Board Post: You probably should contact the Jacksonville Developmental Center and talk to them yourself. Unless the law has changed in the last couple of years, the mental health records for the State of Illinois are closed. If he were buried in the (now JDC) plot at Diamond Grove, you can probably find his grave. I'm sure other readers are more familiar with the rules and regs than I. Be sure to check the Illinois Secretary of State website for the descriptive inventory of the Archives. They have some papers there (which probably won't be of much help to you). Kathleen (STANFIELD) COOK