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and Amiel. After Loretta died, Abe Isaac cohabited for a short time 

 with Thelma, IV 4, but had no children by her. 



Avery, V 3, was "a laborer"; at 30, grand larceny, county jail, 

 90 days; assault and battery, county jail, 90 days; at 49, rape on his 

 niece, Sing Sing, 5 years; no property. He was none too industrious 

 and received a pension as a Civil War veteran. He cohabited first 

 with Satie, V 2, a wanderer and a harlot, and had two children by her. 

 The older, VI 13, was a harlot like her mother and has been arrested 

 for intemperance and disorderly conduct. The other, VI 14, a son, 

 has disappeared. 



Satie deserted Avery and he then married Geneva, V 4, and by her 

 had six children, the first dying at birth. While Avery was in State 

 prison for rape on his niece, Geneva was in and out of the poorhouse 

 with her children, and it was in the poorhouse that, at the age of 31, 

 her bastard child was born. Geneva's family is interesting. Her 

 brother has been in the penitentiary. Her mother was a pauper in the 

 poorhouse at the same time that Geneva and her children were there, 

 making three generations of one family who were being cared for by 

 the town at the same time. There is no doubt that she was feeble- 

 minded. At one time she tried to kill one of her children, and was 

 thereupon sent to a hospital for the insane. She was addicted to the 

 use of laudanum, an overdose of which caused her death. 



The first child of Avery and Geneva died in infancy. The second 

 was VI 16, who was 15 when his father was in State prison. At 16 

 this boy was sent to the penitentiary for petit larceny. At 17 he was a 

 vagrant, wandering here and there. At 18 and again at 20 he was in 

 the poorhouse for one year. At 24 he was sent to the penitentiary for 

 3 months for petit larceny. At 29 he was sent to State prison for 

 28 months for assault. At 35 he was in the county jail i month for 

 intoxication, and again at 55 he was in the county jail for 10 days for 

 the same offense. He has lost one eye, can neither read nor write, 

 works very seldom, and begs his way wherever he goes. He is men- 

 tally defective and should have been in custodial care many years 

 ago. He has cohabited for a long time with a woman, VI 17, who is 

 lo years older than he, and is a beggar, indescribably filthy, and 

 mentally defective. She has spent most of her life in the poorhouse. 

 At 20 she was there and found her mother and sister there also. She 

 can neither read nor write. She has never had any children. 



The third child of Avery and Geneva was a girl, VI 19. She was in 



