Can anyone tell me if there was a sanitarium or other place where someone suffering severe
depression or who was unable to care for themselves could be sent? Sarah Ann Roop
(1836-1897) lost her husband William N. Smith in 1864. She had 5 children. In 1865 she
marries John W. Andrews (he had only been in Adams Co a few days). John and Sarah appear
in the 1870 census of Monroe Twp, Allen Co, with two new children, but the Smith children
are not listed in the household. Then she disappears. Later she is supposed to have
married Isiah Fellers. Both her Smith and Andrews children are farmed out to relatives.
Could it be that she was institutionalized during some of those missing years? Where
would I look to find out whether this is what happened to her?
Margie R. Pearce
Ponchatoula, LA
Genealogy:
http://www.angelfire.com/la/ancestors