We have tried to locate that Poor Farm. It is reported to be in Sec. 26, T. 26N, R. 10E just S of Bloomfield, so we are guessing that it is near ~365156N0895552W. Mike Flannigan > Subject: [MO-CEM] Re: MO-CEMETERIES-D Digest V01 #94 > Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 07:23:32 -0500 > From: "Rick Huff" <rvhuff1@midwest.net> > To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com > > I don't know if there has been any discussion on Stoddard County Poor Farms, > but my grandfather who was raised a couple of miles east of Essex says there > was a poor farm a couple of miles north and east of where he lived at > Crutcher Crossing near Hawley School, and near Old Broadwater Slew. > > When a fellow named Tom Haley or Tom Hailey got behind on his bills they > would send him to the poor farm, but he didn't always stay. He says a lot > of them walked away from the poor farm, but they didn't really care. > > He also tells of a hail storm so bad that it killed all their sows and baby > pigs except one who had made a nest in a hollow log. That would have been > somewhere between 1910 and 1917.