Hansford: Mental Defectives in County H., Indiana 27 
Martha, Harvey, Rebecca, and 2 others who died in infancy. 
John is now dead, and his widow lives a mile off of any road 
in a thicket of underbrush and briars. The old log house is 
in very bad repair, and the ground is uncultivated except 
for a garden spot which the women have. 
John, the first child of Will Woods, married Daisy 
Hampton from an adjoining county, who was a widow with 
an epileptic daughter. John was fatally injured in a stone 
mill and died leaving no children. 
lone, the epileptic daughter of Mrs. John Woods, is 24 
years old. She started to school at 6 years and completed 
the fourth grade in 3 years. At 8 she began having con- 
vulsions and at 9 had to be taken from school. She is now 
almost wholly demented. The mother was able to discuss 
the case without the girl comprehending that she was the 
subject of the conversation. She is kept clean, answers the 
visitor with a sweet smile, but rarely speaks. 
Martha, the second child of Will Woods, is feeble-minded. 
She is very retiring in disposition, so much so that she could 
never be persua'ded to attend school, and when visitors ap- 
pear she always runs away. She was helping to prepare 
the noon meal when the field worker visited the home but 
disappeared as quickly as possible. She was large and fleshy, 
her hair was hanging down her back, and a ‘‘mother Hub- 
bard'’ seemed to be her sole garment. Her face is heavy 
and stolid. The mother says that she cannot work except 
under supervision. 
Harvey Woods, the third child of Will, is insane. Accord- 
ing to his mother’s statement, he has been unbalanced since 
one night 7 years ago when he was badly frightened on his 
way to town. Since that time he has imagined that people 
are trying to catch and kill him. He lives in the woods, 
returning to his home for food only after the family has 
retired for the night. Then he goes in and prepares enough 
food to last until another night. One of his favorite amuse- 
ments is to lift the filled wood box as high as he can and 
then drop it to the floor with a bang. He will do this as 
many as a dozen times while cooking his lunch. In summer 
he wears few clothes. The field worker saw him running 
from tree to tree as she drove to the house to see his mother. 
His trousers were all gone except the hip lining about the 
