You may want to find some not so local my ggrandfather lived in Malvern He had epilepsy he spend the last 20 years of his life in Delaware state hosp where he died The family wrote him off like he was never there I guess in the last 1800 people who took seizures were thought to be possessed His Wife Died 11 years before him and on her death certificate it states she was a widow My Dad said his father never talked about his father and that was why he never knew him he was 4 when his dad got sick I think Mental Illness or what was though to be mental Illness was not Looked opon very differently back then my Grandfather took them too but when he did they knew more about it them Dotty Davis Dora Smith wrote: > > I would like to check on if members of several of > my London Britain and New Garden, Chester County > and White Clay Creek, New Castle County families > had any members ever put in local insane asylums. > I have several families who clearly carried mood > disorders, of whom many members are not accounted > for. Were there any insane asylums in the area, > what were their names, and how would I check to > see if my people were there? > > Yours, > Dora Smith > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== > Visit the US GenWeb Master States Index Page > http://www.usgenweb.org -- mailto:mouserwitz@mediaone.net http://home.att.net/~mouserwitz ICQ13502416