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Roscoe, the seventh child of Paul and Charlotte, is 11 
years old. He, too, is among the 5 dullest pupils in the district 
school. He is very irregular in his attendance, since he is 
the only male help on the farm. 
Olive, the eighth child of Paul and Charlotte, is feeble- 
minded. Her I.Q. is 64. Altho only 8 years old, she works 
all the time, caring for the chickens, feeding stock, doing 
housework, and carrying water. 
Stanley, ninth child of Paul and Charlotte, is very inferior. 
He did not walk until he was 4 years old and cannot yet talk 
plainly. 
The fourth child of Ralph Morris died in infancy. 
Lloyd, the fifth child of Ralph, according to Mrs. Paul 
Morris, was silly. Dr. says that he was feeble-minded. 
A neighbor says that he was queer. He was never known 
to talk to women outside his own family; he disliked coming 
to town, lacked the characteristic Morris temper, and died 
of tuberculosis. 
Norman, the sixth child of Ralph Morris, never married. 
He was very alcoholic, licentious, and quarrelsome. He was 
continuously engaged in some sort of a brawl. Members 
of the family say that he died of tuberculosis, but the doctors 
say that dissipation and venereal diseases caused his death. 
Harry, the seventh child of Ralph, married Opal Walker 
and moved to Illinois. He is said to be an average citizen. 
Elsie, the eighth child of Ralph, married Wayne Mundy, 
by whom she had 4 children : Edna, Kenneth, Lena, and James. 
Elsie has been in the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane 
since March 17, 1917. She had previously been in Central 
Hospital from December 17, 1907, to May 25, 1910. Her 
diagnosis was Manic Depressive. She was born in 1882 in 
County H. As a baby she had convulsions, and later as a 
young girl was very nervous. She suffered with violent sick 
headaches, with fainting and vomiting at time of menstrual 
periods, which were often three months apart. She attended 
school until she was 18 years old and reached only the fifth 
reader. At one time she was a patient of Fletcher's Sani- 
tarium at Indianapolis. Her sister, Mrs. Booth, says that 
Elsie's trouble is all caused by her husband. He would not 
stay at home in the evenings, drank heavily, and would brag 
to his wife of his paramours. He refused to take her out 
