Orleans Parish (La.) Civil Sheriff
Register of patients transported to the State Insane Asylum, 1905
Suit # | Month | Day | Name | Age | Gender/ Color |
Residence | Nativity | Occupation | Marital Status |
Disease | How Long Insane |
Cause | |
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75213 | Jan | 21 | T. B. Hopkins | 35 | M/W | 903 | Camp | La | clerk | S | Was Ac. Insanity | about (sic) | Family troubles |
75266 | Jan | 27 | Lizzie Grimm | 39 | F/W | City | La. | Housekeeper | S | Melancholia | 2 mos. | ? | |
" | " | " | L. Long (Lucretia) | 35 | F/W | City | Florida | none | S | Dementia | Months | ? | |
" | " | " | C. F. Coleman | 68 | M/W | Girod & Camp | S.C. | Physician | S | Insanity with delirium | ? | ? | |
" | " | " | Chester L. Prentice | 35 | M/W | 117 | S. Rochablave (sic) | N. O. | Printer | S | Insanity | Nov 15/04 | Syphilis and Alcohol |
" | " | " | Ora Lee Blount | 29 | F/W | La. Retreat | Texas | Housegirl | S | Recurring Mania | Months | - | |
" | " | " | Mrs. Mary E. Cohen | 48 | F/W | ? | Ireland | House Keeper | M | Insanity | Some years | Opium & Tobacco | |
" | " | " | Lulu Specht | 38 | F/W | La. Retreat | La. | ? | S | Insanity with Hallucinations | ? | ? | |
" | " | " | Carrie Watson | 37 | F/W | ? | Texas | none | S | Acute Insanity | ? | ? | |
" | " | " | Sallie L. Patton | 33 | F/W | City | La. | House Keeper | S | Insanity | Some mos. | ? | |
" | " | " | Edwin J. Turpin | 36 | M/W | Ursuline & Johnson | La. | clerk | S | Acute Mania | 4 mos. | ? | |
" | " | " | R. Henry Hughes | 32 | M/W | City | La. | Laborer | M | Insanity | 5 or 6 mos. | Alcohol | |
" | " | " | Edmund Joseph Twohig | 32 | M/W | City | La. | Laborer | M | Acute Insanity | 2½ mos. | Worry of Financial adversities | |
" | " | " | Martin O. Mosler | 28 | M/W | ? | Texas | Laborer | S | Acute Insanity | ? | Hereditary | |
" | " | " | John Rooney | 49 | M/W | City | La. | Laborer | M | Recurring Mania | Some mos. | Perhaps hereditary | |
" | " | " | Walter Fernandez | 24 | M/W | 2414 | Palmyra | La. | U. S. Army | M | Acute Mania | 2 or 3 mos. | Exposure |
75266 | Jan | 27 | Terrell P. Shephard | 33 | M/W | ? | Ala. | Clerk | S | Insanity | ? | Hereditary | |
John R. Reilly | 33 | M/W | ? | La. | ? | ? | Insanity | 6 mos. | Alcohol | ||||
Wm Reis | 34 | M/W | ? | La. | Laborer | M | Acute Insanity | 6 mos. | Alcohol | ||||
78491 | Feb | 23 | Mrs. Louisa Lindsey | 38 | F/W | 936 | Canal | La. | Housekeeper | W | Insanity | ? | ? |
73930 | Mch | 3 | Theo. F. Cott | ? | M/W | Police Jail | Germany | Engineer | S | ? | About 1 yr. | ? | |
75777 | " | " | Eddie Roach | 19 | M/W | N. O. | La. | Laborer | S | Insanity | Some mos. | Masturbation | |
" | " | " | John P. Abadie | 35 | M/W | 3rd Dist. | France | none | S | Mania | Years | Alcohol | |
" | " | " | Jim Kane | 40 | M/W | City | La. | Laborer | S | Dementia | Months | Syphilis and Alcohol | |
" | " | " | Adam Krieder | 20 | M/W | Claiborne & Willow | La. | none | S | Epileptic | Months | Epilepsy | |
" | " | " | Lucian I. Enderlie | 31 | M/W | 969 | St. Chas. [St. Charles] | La. | Architect | S | Insanity | 17 days | ? |
" | " | " | Emile Placincia | 20 | M/W | Mexico | Mexico | none | S | Dementia | 6 mos. | ? | |
" | " | " | Annie Nye | 21 | F/W | 2107 | Louisa | La. | none | S | Syphilis(prostitute)Dementia | months | Syphilis (prostitute) |
" | " | " | Rosa King | 28 | F/W | Biloxi | Miss. | none | M | Chronic Mania | 1 yr. | Hereditary | |
" | " | " | Mrs. Kate Callahan | 51 | F/W | City | La. | Housekeeper | M | Clepto Mania (sic) | some mos. | Lack of necessities of life | |
" | " | " | Julia Flanagan | 44 | F/W | City | La. | Housekeeper | S | Epileptic Insanity | 2 yrs. | Epilepsy | |
" | " | " | Bertha Adams | 53 | F/W | City | La. | Housekeeper | S | Recurring Insanity | some years | ? | |
" | " | " | Lena Clawson | 52 | F/W | ? | N. York | Housekeeper | S | Acute Insanity | some months | ? | |
" | " | " | Lizzie Shafter | 15 | F/W | City | La. | ? | S | Insanity | ? | ? | |
" | " | " | Mrs. M. R. Delacroix | 64 | F/W | City | Miss. | Housekeeper | M | Recurring Insanity | Some mos. | ? | |
76621 | Jul | 1 | Louis Neimeyer | 35 | M/W | 2620 | Josephine | La. | Lab. | S | Chr. Insanity | 4 mths. | - |
" | " | " | Ernest Miller | 64 | M/W | St. Ann near Roman | La. | Lab. | M | Insanity | about 6 weeks | - | |
" | " | " | John Schriever | 58 | M/W | 1721 | Melpomene | La. | Drummer | M | Insanity | months | probably Hereditary |
" | " | " | J. K. Nixon | 41 | M/W | 2615 | Baronne | La. | Lab. | S | Running Insanity | years | Heredity |
" | " | " | Michael Cross | 28 | M/W | Mag. [Magazine] & Constance | do. | Lab. | S | Chr. Insanity | years | Heredity(?) (sic) | |
" | " | " | Wm. H. Maxey | 81 | M/W | 2nd & Chippewa | do. | - | W | Insanity with delirium | some months | probably Senility | |
" | " | " | Noel Denis | - | M/W | Iberville & Lopez | do. | Lab. | S | Epeleptic (sic) Insanity | years | Epelepsy (sic) | |
" | " | " | R. B. Stubbs | 64 | M/W | Leonidas near Elm | do. | none | M | Chr. Insanity | years | Chr. Insanity | |
" | " | " | Willie Robertson | 17 | M/C | - | do. | none | S | Inbecile | Life | - | |
" | " | " | Sam Parker | 19 | M/C | Franklin & Iberville | do. | none | S | Insanity | years | - | |
" | " | " | Henry Mitchel | 37 | M/C | Franklin & Verret | do. | Lab. | S | Chr. Insanity Heredity | mths. | - | |
" | " | " | Willie Wilson | 25 | M/C | Rampart near Gravier | do. | Lab. | S | Insanity | some weeks | - | |
" | " | " | John Thompson | 36 | M/C | - | do. | Lab. | S | Acute Insanity | months | - | |
" | " | " | Victoria Augusta | 42 | F/C | Baronne near Julia | do. | washwoman | S | Insanity Religious | months | - | |
" | " | " | Peggy Johnson | 74 | F/C | - | N. Carolina | washwoman | M | Insanity | 2 or 3 years | - | |
76621 | Jul | 1 | Lottie Marks | 25 | F/C | N. O. | La. | none | S | Chr. Insanity | 2 years | ||
" | " | " | Tenny McGinty | 35 | F/C | Burdette near Calhoun | do. | cook | M | Acute Insanity | some months | ||
" | " | " | Mary C. Carter | 20 | F/C | 1541 | Polimia (sic) [Polymnia] | do. | none | S | Acute Insanity Epeleptic(sic) | about 1 mth. | |
76642 | Jul | 7 | Mrs. M. Colorado | 60 | F/W | Conti & Claiborne | Italy | None | W | Acute Insanity | 3 months | - | |
" | " | " | Mrs. Eliza Smith | 73 | F/W | St. Ann at Royal | Miss. | None | M | Insanity with delirium of persecution | 6 months | - | |
" | " | " | Mrs. M. Stephens | 24 | F/W | 1020 | Chartres | La. | None | M | Acute Insanity | 1 month | Heredity |
" | " | " | Mrs. Everisto Fernandez | 65 | F/W | - | Spain | None | M | Clepto Mania (sic) | years | - | |
" | " | " | Miss Delia Foss | 35 | F/W | 2260 | N. Derbigny | La. | - | S | Inbecility | childhood | - |
" | " | " | Miss Hortense Robinson | 50 | F/W | - | La. | None | S | Chronic Insanity | 10 years | - | |
" | " | " | Mrs. Henrietta Lausk/Laux (sic) | 43 | F/W | Claiborne & Annette | La. | None | M | Religious Insanity | 1 month | - | |
77935 | Dec | 16 | Daisy Marks | 28 | F/W | 421 | Peters Ave. | La. | none | S | Recurring Mania | 2 yrs. | Heredity |
" | " | " | Mrs. C. Dobbs | 34 | F/W | 2310 | Melpomene | La. | housekeeper | M | Recurring Insanity | 4 mths. | ? |
Database input: Penny Delery & Colleen Fitzpatrick (New Orleans Volunteer Association [N.O.V.A.])
Encoded: Wayne Everard
Date: April 6, 2004