> Archives and Library Search Room > Attn: Reference Desk > P.O. Box 571 > Jackson, MS 39205-0571 > > Telephone: 601-359-6876 > Fax: 601-359-6964 [email protected] The Dept A & H will do up to one hour of search per request...If you are a Mississippi resident it is free others are charged $15 (I think) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary K. Johnson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: [MSWINSTON] Re: East Mississippi Lunacy Records | Eleanor, | | You have given me hope! I checked the web site last night for East | Mississippi State Hospital (http://www.emsh.state.ms.us), and the web | site said the East Mississippi State Insane Asylum opened for service | in January 1885. The name was changed to East Mississippi Insane | Hospital in 1898 and finally to East Mississippi State Hospital in the | early 1930's. Since my relative was committed in October 1889, I am | hoping her records would be included in the early records you saw at | the state archives in Jackson. I also e-mailed the public information | officer at the hospital to see what records are accessible (if any), | and if so, where can they be accessed. If I find out anything useful, | I'll update the list. | | I really appreciate the encouragement. I'm not so much interested in | her "gory medical details" as I am as to whether or not she died there | and if so, was she buried there. | | Thanks again! | Mary K. Johnson | | | > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:26:34 -0800 (PST) | > From: eleanor belew <[email protected]> | > To: [email protected] | > Subject: Re: [MSWINSTON] Winston County Lunacy Records | > | > Mary, | > In 2000 I visited the archives in Jackson. At that time they had | > released some of the early | > records from East Mississippi Insane Hospital. | > Also if you check the 1920 & 1930 Lauderdale Co. census records they | > list the inmates at the | > hospital. | > Hope this helps. | > Eleanor | > | > __________________________________ | > Do you Yahoo!? | > Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes | > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus | > | | | ==== MSWINSTON Mailing List ==== | USGS Mapping Information query form | http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html | | ============================== | 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 |