The Madness Monday ancestor I'm posting about today is my husband's great-great grandmother, Martha H. Williams Saul. She was born in Virginia abt 1827 and married Albert G. Saul on 5 Oct 1846 in Franklin Co., Virginia. They had five surviving children. Before the Civil War, they appeared to be relatively prosperous, living at Oak Level, Henry, Virginia in the 1860 census. By 1870, Martha is a patient in at the Western Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Augusta, Virginia, and dies bef 1880.
How tragic. Is there any way to discover what happened to cause her to be there?
ReplyDeleteYou may want to look at court records to see if there is any mention of Martha in them about being committed to the asylum. Also, does are the asylum records themselves archived somewhere?
ReplyDeleteI should look into both those possibilities. Number eleventy-million on my genie to do list! :D
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