On Sun, 6 May 2001, B. Gray Appleton wrote: > I'm seeking burial information concerning persons held at the North Texas > Lunatic Asylum between 1887 and 1895. > Terrell State Hospital has no record concerning > Fannie. I think the State Hospital would be the only ones with the record of burials. Per Linda Harwell's "Kaufman County Death Notices", the Terrell newspapers have no mention of her death-- for some of the 1890-1909 period, the Terrell newspapers were pretty good about reporting deaths in the Asylum. Another tack would be to look in the county that she lived in (was committed from). The County Court records should record a lunacy case for her, and the minutes should be open records allowing you to confirm where she was sent (to Terrell or someplace else). The case file itself is a closed record and would require the permission of a judge to open. I know, however, that I was able to confirm the commitment of a person to North Texas Asylum in the 1890's from Navarro county by looking at that county's County Court lunacy minutes. This, of course, won't tell you when she died, but it would at least tell you where she was committed. Justin M. Sanders "I shot an arrow into the air. It fell Dept. of Physics to earth I know not where." --Henry Univ. of South Alabama Wadsworth Longfellow confessing [email protected] to a sad ignorance of ballistics.