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From: Thomas Hamm <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quakers in Clinton County Infirmery 1880
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:06:41 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <CAPG4UJZTUmOYiz=PYG9MSpDGZ6h0_Cjk30G-fF5FaPj_GLuC7g@mail.gmail.com>


"Infirmary" isn't as much a hospital as an asylum. Another label would be the county farm or the poor house.

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From: "Dale Harguess" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 2:50:11 PM
Subject: [Q-R] Quakers in Clinton County Infirmery 1880

I was just trying to locate some of my Hoskins ancestors and I found them
all living together in the 1880 Census in the Clinton County Ohio
Infirmery. There were numerous families with Quaker names on the same
page. Does anyone know anything about this? From what I can determine it
looks like the husband was dead but the wife was there with two of her three
children.
I am puzzled by this. Was there some sort of epidemic in the community that
caused so many families to be together in an Infirmery?
Dale in California

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