Marie, Write to the Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center the address is: ATT: Health Information Department Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center 3505 Frederick Ave St Joseph, Mo 64506 Tell them who you are looking for and the date of their death. They will give you the address to write and get a court order so the information can be released.After receiving this Court Order you then write back to the address above to get the information you are looking for. I am in the proccess of doing the same thing so I can get information on my great grandfather who died at the State County Farm in 1902. Good Luck Gerald Aubuchon [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Cook's" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:25 AM Subject: [MOBUCHAN] St. Joe, Buchanan Co., Mo. insane asylum 1919 / Anna May GOODALE > http://www.poorhousestory.com/MO_BUCHANAN_PHhistory.htm > http://members.aol.com/buchanancomo/asof.html > > The necessity of a permanent institution for the county insane was so > pressing that, in August, 1880, the judges appropriated $10,000 for this > purpose. A building with modern equipment and with a capacity of 150 > patients was completed in February of 1881. In this building the incurably > insane are kept. The county still maintains a number of patients at Asylum > No. 2 considered curable. > ***** > Hello! > I've recently received the civil war pension papers for my ggGrandfather's > brother, Oren Henry GOODALE. > Oren's widow, Elizabeth "Lizzie" (KING) is applying as his widow in 1926 and > states: > > Q: Had you ever been married to any man before you married Henry Oren > GOODALE? > A: Oh, Lord, no, was never married to any man in my life but him. I had two > children by my marriage to GOODALE, two daughters, Anna May, and Hallie > Gertrude. Anna May died unmarried in St. Joseph, Mo., lost her mind, and > died in St. Joe insane asylum, January 19, 1919. Hallie Gertrude married > Fred WARNER, traveling man, and she lives at Santana, Haskell Co., Ks. > **** > Can anyone tell me anything about the insane asylum? Do these old records > still exist or maybe they've been filmed? My grandfather died in 1957 in an > insane asylum in Ca. and to get those records from the Ca. supreme Court and > medical records from Patton State Hospital I had to have a doctor request > them. Will that stand true for years as far back as 1919 and are Missouri > state laws different in this regard to Ca.? > Thanks for any help and suggestions, > Marie > > > > ==== MOBUCHAN Mailing List ==== > Buchanan County Genealogical Resources - Rootsweb > http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/MO/Buchanan/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >