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is now much broken in health, suffering acutely from pain in her head 

 and back. Has also had dry gangrene in her foot, which resulted last 

 winter in the loss of her great-toe, and now the trouble has attacked 

 the other foot. Her children are : 



IV-84, born 1870, died 1872, brain fever. "Took fits when a little 

 baby, afterwards his head grew and his body did not, then brain fever 

 set in and carried him off." 



IV-86, born 1872, died 1898. Described as a chaste, bright, attrac- 

 tive girl. Married IV-85, who has been employed as "handy man" 

 and carpenter. She was taken with a violent pain in her head; other 

 symptoms indicated appendicitis. She died within 24 hours after an 

 operation. IV-85 is now married again. Is said to have no interest 

 in his daughter (V-71), who is living with her father's people and pro- 

 nounced attractive and talented. Attends high school, where she 

 shows average rate of mental development. Her brother (V-70) died 

 at 7 months of cholera infantum. 



The second son of III-44 was IV-88, born 1874. A man of fair 

 mentality who could work if he would, but who shirks. Is alcoholic 

 and altogether too fond of low company. Has married IV-89, of fairly 

 good stock; plump, pleasant-spoken, capable, but gives the impres- 

 sion of having given up trying. They live on her father's farm, but 

 do not pretend to work it properly; buildings neglected, implements 

 rusting in the weather, the old house bare of furniture, ill-kept, swarm- 

 ing with, a troup of very ragged, dirty children. 



The eldest (V-72) , a boy of 1 7, does what he can to keep the farm going. 



The other son (V-75), a boy of 8, appears very dull and backward, 

 having never been well since he was sick with the whooping-cough. 



Four girls, ages 12, 10, 6, and 4, respectively, are small for their 

 ages; too shy to give a clue to their mentality. 



A second daughter (IV-90) of III-44 was abused and put out-of-doors 

 by her mother, and thus fought her ow-n way from a girl of 12 until 

 her marriage. She and her husband are very ignorant and slow men- 

 tally. He belongs to a strain which shows great stature and consider- 

 able mental backwardness. He attended district school in winter 

 until 20 years old, but does not know^ what fractions and percentage 

 mean. He reads the newspaper, but always finds many words he can 

 not understand. Is employed as car repairer on the railroad. His 

 wife is more ignorant than he, but is a good housekeeper and seam- 

 stress. Two of their children (V-79, 82) died in infancy of pneumonia. 

 Of the remaining children, three are in school and two at least are 

 greatly retarded. They did not walk until they were 3 years old. The 

 eldest is in sixth grade at 13 years, and two are in the second grade at 

 9 and 10 years respectively. 



