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/XAB.2ACI/2390 Message Board Post: Does anyone know if there existed in Ashland a poor house in the early 1880s? I have completely been unable to find one of my female ancestors in the census, and am beginning to think she may have spent some time in the poor house. Surname Baldwin, also used the last name of Rayburn. First name Christina.