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of various crimes and she walked to Stonetown where the 
authorities arrested her. She tried to have her father ar- 
rested for some terrible crime and believed she was being 
held in jail as a witness against him. She was returned to 
the Hospital on December 20, 1917. Her diagnosis is Dementia 
Praecox. 
Thomas, sixth child of James Walker, married Jessie 
Pence, from whom he is now divorced. Nothing more is 
known of him except that he has 2 small children. 
Matt Walker, the second child of Polly and Joe Walker, 
is in Missouri where he is now serving a sentence for criminal 
assault on a small girl. 
Sam, Oscar, and Reuben, the third, fourth, and fifth chil- 
dren of Polly, live in the West. Nothing is known of Caroline 
and Alma. 
Stella, the eighth child of Polly and Charley Walker, mar- 
ried William Hess and lives at Toronto. They have 8 chil- 
dren, one of whom married into the Martin-Pryor group and 
another into the Ham-Kysar group. 
Nothing is known of Denis and Nora, the ninth and tenth 
children of Polly and Charley Walker. 
Roy, second child of Emma Burns Kelley, married Nora 
Booth, the child of Glen Booth. They have several children, 
only 1 of whom was visited. 
One daughter of Roy and Nora married John Morris, and 
her children are discussed in the section devoted to him. 
Arnold, third child of Emma Burns Kelley, was insane. 
His niece, Mrs. John Morris, says that he was worse than 
Irvin. He committed suicide by jumping into deep water 
where he drowned. 
Irvin, the fourth child of Emma Burns Kelley, was born 
in 1875 in County H. He had very little schooling. He is 
married and has 1 son, Homer, who lives in Township 5 north 
of Stonetown. His psychosis began with imagining that he 
was very sick. He used up all his ready money in doctor 
bills, and later became very irritable and wanted to fight. 
He imagined that there were things crawling over him and 
once nearly drowned himself by jumping into the creek to 
get rid of them. He was sent to the Southeastern Hospital 
on September 13, 1916, where the dia^osis of Recurrent 
Mania was made. 
