From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jan 19 10:31:55 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0JHVtRc011505; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:31:55 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0JHVsWV008428 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:31:54 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0JF4YFI006348 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:04:34 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k0JF4YlB006347 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:04:34 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0JDtNFI006172 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:55:23 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k0JGMVD7032399 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:22:31 -0700 X-Envelope-From: treviawbeverly@houston.rr.com Thu Jan 19 09:22:31 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0JGMVRc032390 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:22:31 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.42]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0JGMR6H022921 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:22:27 -0700 Received: from oemcomputer (cpe-24-175-91-92.houston.res.rr.com [24.175.91.92]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id k0JGMPRZ015233; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:22:25 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <002d01c61d14$cc6154c0$6401a8c0@oemcomputer> From: "Trevia W Beverly" To: "Elizabeth Ewing Fox" , References: <79e77478f8d00aea32dfe58cfdfb4e42@charter.net> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Dodgeville, Iowa, WI Insane Asylum ++++ general WI info +++++ Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:24:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/institutions/asylums.html WI State Institutions County Asylums for the Chronic Insane ... http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/Asylums/1903.htm WI state 'blue book' on Institutions 1907 - http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WIIns.html When looking for any kind of institution - business, school, orphanage, etc. be sure to see if there is a city directory ** for that area and time period. And use your search engine .... play around with the terms and you're bound to come up with some leads. ** for city directories, some may be interested in an article I wrote for the CLF NEWSLETTER ... go to http://www.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/clf/clf.html Scroll down to "Do You Have an 'Urban' Ancestor? Check out that City Directory!" by Trevia Wooster Beverly (vol. 13, no. 1, February 1999). You're free to print it out ... and there are some other excellent articles there - Enjoy! And don't forget to look at the INSTITUTIONAL SOUNDEX, 1880 - 1920, may help you locate an orphanage or school, college dormitories, hospitals and asylums, military installations - even jails! - that have been mentioned in your family, or to located what institutions were in the area of your ancestral home. These are at the end of the state rolls. Trevia Wooster Beverly Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Ewing Fox" To: Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:09 AM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Dodgeville, Iowa, WI Insane Asylum > I am looking for information of my G Grandmother, Susannah (Briggs) > Ewing who was a patient of the Dodgeville WI Insane Asylum for many > years. I know that she was still alive in 1923. I would like to know > date of admission, diagnosis, death date, burial place, etc. She was a > Vermonter and the rest of her family is buried in Vermont. She did have > a sister in Eau Claire - Crossman family. Elizabeth Ewing Fox: > bettefox@charter.net