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/WEB.2ACI/117.1 Message Board Post: Hi you posted this a couple of years ago so i dont know if you have already gotton your information. I just found out abt my troubled person so i just started looking for this kind of info. My troubled person was sent to the East Louisiana Mental Hospital in Jackson, La. This was in 1880. This was the oldest mental hospital in the state and was i believe the only one at that time. Hope this helps.