Hansford: Mental Defectives in County H., Indiana 45 
boundary line of County H. Sallie did not come all the way 
with her parents, but married William Brown and settled 
near by his parents. To them were born 8 children : Margaret, 
Agnes, Sadie, James, Oscar, Dorothy, Mary, and Charles. 
While these children were quite small, William and Sallie 
moved north into the same neighborhood where lived their 
relatives. This district is the one now called ‘Tossum Holler” 
or ‘‘Jones Holler”. Nothing is known of the mental status 
of William and Sallie. 
Their first child, Margaret, married Sam Williams, the 
son of another newly-arrived family from Kentucky. By him 
she had 4 children: Jane, Pauline, Mattie, and Goldie. Sam 
died, and Margaret married Emmett Jones, by whom she had 
4 children: John, Daisy, Louis, and Albert. Emmett died in 
1915, and Margaret, now 87 years old, lives with her daughter, 
Goldie Smith Jones. She is unable to move out of her chair 
and has lost the power of speech. She sits in her chair day 
after day and watches her granddaughters prostitute. She 
is proud of the fact that so many men seek them. It is said 
that she herself was once a notorious character. An old lady 
who has always lived near them says that Margaret never 
was bright and that when younger she was a dirty, filthy 
housekeeper. Her children grew up uncared for. She could 
never make change, read, nor write. 
Jane, the first child of Margaret, is a high-grade moron, 
51 years old. She is married to Sol Johnson, by whom she 
has 8 children. Mrs. Johnson is illiterate, has a speech defect, 
defective memorj^-span, and poor comprehension. She is not 
sure as to whether Zella or Minnie is the older of her children. 
Minnie, the first child of Jane, is 31 years old. She has 
a mental age of 7 years, 8 months. When she left school 
at 12 years she had reached the third grade. Her first hus- 
band, whom she married at the age of 15 years, was a Harding 
from an adjoining county. He was an itinerant Holy Roller 
preacher. She divorced him and he kept the only son. She 
then married Peter Jennings, by whom she has 3 ‘children : 
Jonathan, Martha, and Ellen. Peter lives with her spas- 
modically. For the past 4 years his brother Frank has been 
the man of the house for the greater part of the time. Peter 
says that the 2 younger children belong to Frank. Frank 
does not deny this, and now that he is in the service has 
