This is very interesting and something we might want to keep in our files. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: LANDINMC@aol.com To: MSHINDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:03 PM Subject: MS State Asylum Hospital records This message is for everybody who has asked over the years about names at the state hospital that used to be in Hinds County. Physically, it was located on what is now Lakeland Drive between University Medical Center and St. Dominics Hospital, and there is a large cemetery of unmarked graves there because patients died and were buried on the grounds in paupers graves. I was going through the 1930 Federal Census tonight looking for some records, and realized that from page 7 through page 55 of the Hinds County 1930 records are all the names of patients at the asylum. Hundreds of them. They are recorded by name, age, race, sex, where they were born, and where their parents were born, and listed as patients with no occupation. Olivia Ferguson was the census taker. They were in the 13th census district of Hinds County, Ward 7. The several lists are divided by sex and by race, which is probably the way they were housed at the facilities. So if you have somebody missing that you know was in that hospital at that point in time, check out the 1930 census. This is the first time I've seen patient information available for that hospital, ever. I thought all the records had been thrown away, because Archives didn't have them and neither does Whitfield, the current hospital in Rankin County. I need to go back now and check to see if all the children at the Baptist and Methodist orphanages were also censused. They were living at what was then the village of Liberty Grove, and what is now where the Jackson Zoo is located, next to Cedar Lawn Cemetery on West Capitol Street. Feel free to past this information on to other groups and lists, because it has been lost information for a long time. Mary Collins Landin Utica, Hinds County, MS ______________________________