Marilyn, Thanks much for the clip on the poorhouse and the last message on the poor house. I guess if it was operational in 1841 then there would be some kind of records either in probate or at the home itself. I know Newark's poor house have card files still in existence from that period (on file in the genealogy society), maybe they do as well. I'll try writing them and check it out. Denny Shirer - drdx@neo.rr.com Shirer Family Genealogy Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysong > Subject: [OHGUERNS] Poor House - Infirmary - County Home > Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:02:11 EDT > From: MMacmurph@aol.com > To: OHGUERNS-L@rootsweb.com > > drdx@neo.rr.com writes: > << 1855...stated in his card file was that he was a pauper and "a resident of > Guernsey Co., Ohio, in Newark Twp., six weeks". >> > <<If the Children's home was not operational back then, does anyone know of a > poor > house or a prior incarnation of the Children's Home in Guernsey?>> > > The home first called Poor House, later Infirmary and then County Home, was > established in 1841 located in Wills township, two miles south of Washington > on 212 acres. (this info was published in 1943) This is the only home and > location of its kind listed in Wm Wolfe's Stories of Guernsey Co. > Marilyn McCormick Murphy - MMacMurph@aol.com