21 August 1850
Asylum or Institution for Idiotic, Epilepstic and Insane Persons
Thomas F. Green | 45 | Supt of Physician | SC | |
Joseph J. Owens | 29 | Asst of Physician | GA | |
William Farrall | 27 | Steward | GA | |
Willis Vaughn | 33 | asst. Steward | SC | |
Frances M. Jones | 44 | Matron | GA | |
Mary Vaughn | 41 | asst. Matron | GA | |
J. G. Fowler | 28 | attendant | SC | |
John M. Fowler | 23 | attendant | SC | |
Clayton Fowler | 30 | attendant | SC | |
Henry G. Fowler | 17 | attendant | SC | |
William Jackson | 23 | attendant | SC | |
Elvira Hubbard | 20 | attendant | GA | |
Jane Johnson | 21 | attendant | GA | |
Mary Johnson | 17 | attendant | GA | |
Amanda Vaughn | 31 | attendant | GA | |
Louisa Ansley | 30 | attendant | unk | insane |
John Smith | 56 | sailor | Ire | insane |
Julia A. Mayer | 29 | GA | epileptic | |
Stephen H. Barton | 46 | farmer | GA | insane |
Samuel Henderson | 53 | farmer | SC | insane |
Thomas G. Harrison | 30 | farmer | GA | insane |
Sophia Young | 56 | GA | insane | |
Nancy Williams | 53 | GA | insane | |
Zachariah Hendriks | 54 | farmer | GA | insane |
Mrs. Dawson | 40 | GA | insane | |
Martha C. Johnson | 46 | GA | insane | |
Nancy Denning | 50 | GA | insane | |
Caleb Wilkinson | 55 | farmer | GA | insane |
Joel H. Dyer | 50 | shoemaker | NC | insane |
Nancy Shyres | 53 | SC | insane | |
Samuel Harries | 43 | blacksmith | GA | insane |
Eliza Wilcox | 50 | NC | insane | |
Louisa Robinson | 60 | NC | insane | |
Moses Woodsin | 65 | stone mason | VA | insane |
Harriet Boutwan | 45 | GA | insane | |
John J. Lenoir | 25 | none | AL | insane |
Jeremiah Darby | 42 | AL | insane | |
Rebecca Tatum | 35 | SC | insane | |
Mary M. Krae | 45 | NC | insane | |
Temperance Bracewell | 43 | GA | insane | |
Lewis B. Doane | 30 | merchant | CT | insane |
William McVeney | 40 | sailor | NY | insane |
Eliza Featherstone | 65 | VA | insane | |
Whatson Ranseam | 29 | farmer | GA | insane |
Richard M. Williams | 41 | clerk | GA | insane |
Calvin Majors | 29 | clerk | GA | insane |
Anne B. Walker | 51 | GA | insane | |
William Fletcher | 41 | laborer | MA | insane |
Nicholas Tuttle | 38 | wagoner | Ire | insane |
Margaret Harvey | 41 | NC | insane | |
William H. Lewis | 46 | merchant | GA | insane |
Eliza P. Morrison | 64 | SC | insane | |
Robert Moss | 22 | none | GA | insane |
Martha Wallis | 54 | SC | insane | |
Mary Waller | 44 | NC | insane | |
Harriet Gadis | 22 | GA | idiotic | |
William Gadis | 20 | none | GA | idiotic |
Bethia Wright | 27 | GA | insane | |
Sarah Comstock | 24 | Ire | insane | |
Jemima Oliver | 29 | GA | insane | |
Mintle Oliver | 18 | GA | insane | |
Penelope Sanders | 21 | GA | idiotic | |
John Bradley | 22 | NY | insane | |
Mary Allen | 43 | SC | insane | |
William S. Bowen | 32 | none | GA | insane |
Emily Kirkpatrick | 27 | GA | insane | |
Fannie McElkanner | 16 | GA | epileptic | |
Morgan Dean | 29 | none | GA | idiotic |
Layfayette Dean | 21 | none | GA | idiotic |
Joseph Hall | 38 | none | SC | insane |
Martin Cortilow | 47 | farmer | Ire | insane |
Henry W. Hall | 34 | farmer | GA | insane |
Richard J. Milner | 43 | farmer | GA | insane |
Louisa Webb | 38 | GA | insane | |
Elizabeth Huff | 42 | GA | insane | |
John H. Morris | 22 | clerk | GA | insane |
Martha B. Feat | 43 | VA | insane | |
Mary White | 36 | GA | insane | |
Sarah Hendriks | 39 | GA | insane | |
Thomas B. Madaris | 36 | farmer | NC | insane |
William A. Wright | 19 | none | GA | idiotic |
Darlin P. Lee | 25 | none | GA | insane |
Edwin Jones | 38 | none | GA | insane |
John W. Bird | 68 | lawyer | GA | insane |
Jefferson Williams | 36 | teacher | GA | insane |
Thomas B. Robinson | 30 | farmer | NC | insane |
John Brame | 20 | student | AL | insane |
Nancy Guest | 33 | GA | insane | |
Thomas Ferry | 64 | laborer | NJ | insane |
William Crow | 52 | laborer | GA | epileptic |
John Atcheson | 35 | laborer | GA | insane |
Eldridge Cash | 38 | farmer | GA | insane |
William J. Smiley | 30 | farmer | GA | insane |
Anna B. Pierce | 50 | farmer | GA | insane |
Levina Clark | 46 | farmer | GA | insane |
Rebecca Goodson | 41 | GA | insane | |
John Bird | 42 | laborer | GA | insane |
John W. Lee | 37 | farmer | GA | insane |
James King | 37 | farmer | GA | insane |
Sarah Dyke | 26 | AL | insane | |
Sarah Chete | 10 | AL | idiotic | |
John B. Snelson | 26 | farmer | GA | restored |
Eliza Neely | 39 | SC | insane | |
Isaac Howden | 56 | farmer | SC | insane |
Martha Mount | 23 | GA | epileptic | |
Patrick Hurly | 40 | laborer | Ire | insane |
Lydia A. Smith | 43 | GA | insane | |
Emily Brown | 19 | GA | idiotic | |
Sarah Spruce | 44 | SC | insane | |
James H. Varnum | 25 | laborer | GA | insane |
William Taylor | 25 | laborer | GA | epileptic |
John J. Holmes | 41 | farmer | GA | insane |
Mary Howard | 52 | GA | insane | |
Delila Porter | 39 | NC | insane | |
Levina Green | 38 | VA | restored | |
Willis Taylor | 45 | laborer | GA | epileptic |
Alice Lambe | 39 | GA | insane | |
Lucinda Carr | 10 | GA | idiotic | |
Dennis Asheford | 45 | Carpenter | MD | epileptic |
James Garrigan | 15 | GA | idiotic | |
Moses Kolm | 25 | taylor | Ger | insane |
John W. Davis | 19 | laborer | GA | insane |
Caroline Edmunds | 45 | NC | insane | |
Samuel W. Edmunds | 3 mos | GA | ||
Frederck Turberville | 20 | laborer | GA | epileptic |
John B. Milnor | 40 | laborer | GA | insane |
For insight into life in a 19th century Insane asylum, see the books:
Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997
and:
Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940
and:
Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Looking for information on Jessie Miller who according to the Mortality records died there of typhoid in August 1850. Mortality record says he was a free slave married. He was born around 1824. Age at death was approx. 26.