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and tended the farm. He was always highly respected as 
an honest man. His children died in infancy and he reared 
2 others: Belle Andrews, his sister’s child; and Jake, his 
brother’s child. 
Roy, another one of the Baker brothers, lives in Stonetown 
and works in the stone mills. Formerly he lived in 0. County. 
He married Amy Christy, of that county, by whom he has 
5 children: Margaret, Nellie, Bessie, Lucy, and Violet. Roy 
and his wife are both industrious, but find it hard to make 
both ends meet. The 2 older girls are married, and the third 
is away from home. Lucy is feeble-minded, being 16 years 
and 7 months old with a mental age of 8-2h She is only in 
the sixth grade at school and has been in jail on an immorality 
charge. She is known to have been the victim of a number 
of different men. She is rather pretty, can do routine factory 
work, but is exactly that kind of a defective who is making 
the whole problem such a serious one. Her sister Violet is 
in many ways very similiar to Lucy. Her I.Q. is 63. She, 
too, needs custodial care or will need it soon, for she is now 
12 years old. 
Herbert, another one of the Baker brothers, is somewhat 
different from the others. At times he is insane ; at all times 
he is highly emotional. He has a habit of going to a high 
hiil outside the city limits at night and early in the morn- 
ing where he prays so loud that he disturbs that part of town. 
He sometimes stays there until he falls of exhaustion. He 
has 7 children. The oldest, Ben, is feeble-minded and has a 
feeble-minded wife. The others were not visited. 
Hiram, another of the Baker brothers, was the “black 
sheep” of the family. He was the only alcoholic member of 
the family, and consequently he and his family were not 
self-supporting. He married a prostitute, by whom he had 
4 children: Marie, Jake, Laura, and Jim. They were ah 
inferior mentally and physically. Hiram was run down by 
a train while drunk. His wife immediately resumed her pros- 
titution and within 6 months died of an acute venereal in- 
fection. The children were scattered. Marie, who was about 
14 years old, went to her aunt, who was living in the red 
light district of Indianapolis; Walter Baker took Jake; and 
the others were taken by their maternal grandmother. 
1 8-2 means a mental aj^e of 8 years, 2 months. 
