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From: Scott Hall <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] What does this say?
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:29:27 -0500
References: <4CDD3A47.4070605@snet.net><C902A5A7.151A6%janis.gilmore@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <C902A5A7.151A6%janis.gilmore@gmail.com>


That first word probably is overheat, but I'd guess the second word isn't
"no" -- those might just be the first two letters of the second word, which
I can't make out either. There is clearly a letter with a tail, such as g j
or y, and an i in there. Catraracts can be caused by excessive exposure to
ultraviolet light or radiation -- perhaps in 1880 this could be interpreted
as "overheating". It seems it the "overheating" of the lens that forms
cataracts, so I'm pretty confident "overheat" is the right word. The
question is what is the second?

To know for sure, you'd probably have to review the microfilm copy at the
National Archives or the Family Search Library.

You could, alternatively, search through other pages of this schedule to see
if anyone else with cataracts has a similar cause that you can read.

Scott

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Janis Walker Gilmore <
> wrote:

> That's what it looks like to me, too-- "Cause of blindness, if known" and
> entry "overheat no."
>
> I can't imagine what that would mean, though.
>
> Janis
>
>
> On 11/12/10 8:59 AM, "Aunt Lizzie's Trunk" <> wrote:
>
> > The question is "Was this person ever an inmate of an institution for
> > the blind? If yes, give the name of such institution."
> > The cause appears to say "Overheat No" but I can't make out the last
> word.
> >
> > Nora Galvin
> > Bridgeport CT
> >
> > Janis Walker Gilmore wrote:
> >> Hi, all,
> >>
> >> I am looking at an 1880 U.S. Census, Defective, Dependent and
> Delinquent,
> >> for Marion County, South Carolina.
> >>
> >> The person in question is Sophia Davis. I think it looks as if the ³form
> of
> >> blindness² is ³cataracts,² but I can¹t read what it says under ³Supposed
> >> cause of blindness, if known.² Also, what is the question in the second
> to
> >> last column, marked ³No² for Sophia?
> >>
> >>
> http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=1634&iid=csusasc1850_03
> >> 3776-0504&fn=Sophia&ln=Davis&st=d&ssrc=&pid=218248
> >>
> >> Sophia was formerly a slave in Marion County.
> >>
> >> Thanks to anyone who can see this more clearly than I can.
> >>
> >> Janis Walker Gilmore
> >>
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