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living and has saved enough to buy a tiny home in Harrisburg. 
George, the first child of Thomas and Ruth, 34 years old, 
is feeble-minded and is married to a feeble-minded epileptic 
woman, Ethel Hanson. As a small boy George was not con- 
sidered bright, and the other children all made fun of him. He 
had only reached the second grade when at the age of 15 
years he left school and went to work in the stone quarry as 
water boy. The physician of the community aptly described 
George when he said: ''George isn’t crazy — he hasn’t brain 
matter enough to be crazy. Like the other Bakers he isn’t 
blessed with sense.” He and his epileptic wife have 4 chil- 
dren : Amy, Elizabeth, Walter, and Henry. Amy, the oldest 
child of George and Ethel, is very dull. She is nearly 13 
years old and is yet in the second grade in school. She can- 
not talk plainly enough to be understood, is cross-eyed, walks 
sideways, and is constantly trying to pull her shoulders up 
around her neck. The neighbors say that she has fits like 
her mother and is as crazy as Ethel. The physician says 
that she is an epileptic. Elizabeth, the second child of George, 
is feeble-minded, and the 2 younger children are decidedly 
inferior. 
Ralph, the second child of Thomas and Ruth Baker, is 
feeble-minded. Like his brother George, he was tormented 
as a boy by the other children. In this respect children are 
often like little beasts in that they try to drive away or pester 
an inferior child. Ralph married Anna Turner, of Stone- 
town, the feeble-minded sister of Leslie Turner, an epileptic. 
She is a high-grade imbecile according to reports of physician 
and neighbors. She was not seen as she now lives in Indi- 
anapolis. Ralph is not self-supporting as was his father. 
The wife is not much more help in managing the family than 
the 2 babies whom she has brought into the world. Ralph 
has served 8 jail sentences totaling 25 days. Of these, 4 
were for bootlegging, 2 for gaming, 1 for keeping a "blind 
tiger”, and 1 for trespass. He has cost the county $14 because 
of these misdemeanors. 
Ira, the third child of Thomas and Ruth Baker, is feeble- 
minded. He is unmarried. He is of a higher grade than his 
brothers and will probably be self-supporting. 
Walter, the third Baker brother, like his brother Sydney 
was a steady, hard-working laborer. His wife inherited a 
small piece of land, and in his late years he left the quarries 
