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From: "Wayne & Patricia Ball" <>
Subject: Re: [ILPEORIA-L] Re: Asylum Peoria County-Ann PURCELL
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:58:58 -0600


I grew up in Peoria.There was a TB Sanitarium,also a state hospital in
Bartonville that closed.I believe the records are at Zellar Zone In Peoria..
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Subject: [ILPEORIA-L] Re: Asylum Peoria County-Ann PURCELL


> Hello
> I missed much of the discussion about the asylums and recently began
to
> wonder if that could be where an illusive GGGrandmother may have vanished
> to. Ann PURCELL (Ann McGEE>RIDGEWAT>PURCELL) was yet living in 1880
> according to the Peoria County history book I photocopied from, however,
she
> appears to have vanished from the earth as far as censuses and death
records
> and cemetery inscriptions go. She lived part of her life in Marshall
County
> when married to John RIDGEWAY and to Edward PURCELL, but apparently went
back
> to Peoria County in her later years. I now wonder if she contracted
> tuberculosis during those last years, and spent them in the asylum. I've
> spent years trying to find her grave (she was born about 1807 give or take
10
> years).
> If anyone has access to asylum records, would you kindly take a look
for
> Ann Purcell for me? Thank you very much. Carol Ashby
>
>
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