Hansford: Mental Defectives in County Indiana 51 
John, the first child of Emmett and Margaret, married 
Sailie Hall, his second cousin, by whom he has 3 children: 
Della, Theodore, and Elsie. He lives in a little two-room log 
house in a big hollow 2 miles from any road. To reach the 
place it was necessary for the field worker to lay down 3 
rail fences and to lower the buggy top when following the tie 
road which led to the place. The brush had grown up over 
the road and the trees hung over so low that it was apparent 
that nothing had passed that way for some time. The house, 
along with the home of Harmon Jones, nestled down at the 
foot of a long hill in a spot where people seldom pass. The 
house was clean as a new pin as was Mrs. John Jones her- 
self. They owned a few pigs, a cow, a mule, and have enough 
ground to raise feed for them. When farm duties are not 
pressing, John cuts ties for the railroad. Sailie is ignorant 
but not feeble-minded. John was not seen. Their oldest child, 
Della, married a Payton and was not seen. Theodore, the 
second child, from all reports is feeble-minded. He is in the 
service but is said to be good only for manual labor. He 
went only to the second grade in school. He deserted from 
the army along with David, the son of Harmon Jones. 
Elsie, the third child of John and Sailie, is a middle-grade 
imbecile who is married to her father’s double cousin. Curt 
Jones, with whom she lives 1 mile from Solton. She is a 
small, anaemic woman 26 years old with 5 little children, 
the youngest being only 6 weeks old. These children are 
poorly nourished and badly dressed. One of them had a sugar 
sack drawn about her neck and holes cut for her arms as 
her sole garment. The other little girls wore only slips which 
were open to the hem in the back and were fastened at the 
neck with safety pins. Elsie attended school for 8 years but 
cannot read or write. Because of a serious speech defect, it 
is almost impossible to understand her. Her mental age by 
the abbreviated scale is 4 years and 4 months. Her house 
looks as if it had never been clean, and it probably has not 
been since she moved into it. Her children will be described 
along with their father. Curt Jones. 
Daisy, the second child of Emmett Jones, is not known. 
Louis, the third child, is not known except that he has the 
name of being alcoholic and licentious. Albert, the fourth 
child of Emmett Jones, married Angeline Hancock, a second 
cousin. She will be described with the Hancocks. Albert is 
