You can actually get her hospital records for some procedure but not a whole lot. It's been a long time since I looked into it. At the time I was having trouble proving my relationship to my mother. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie" <jp55@wt.net> To: <maworces@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 7:57 PM Subject: [MAWORCES] Mental patient >I am searching for the marriage of LILLIAN SALTUS to a Mr. O'NEILL. > Lillian was born in Springfield 7 Oct 1879. On the 1920 census she is a > patient at Northampton State Hospital under the surname O'Neill and > "married". On the 1930 census she had been transferred to Gardner State > Colony for the Insane in Gardner. Again, she is still O'Neill and > "married." > She died there 25 August 1932. I would like to find out about her > marriage > and why she was an inpatient so long. She is buried at Wildwood Cemetery > in Gardner. Does anyone have access to death records in Gardner? > Marriage > records in Springfield or Hampshire county? > > > > Any help welcomed. > > Jackie > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAWORCES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message