Hansford: Mental Defectives in County Indiana 53 
her group, she could say nothing too mean about the ones 
whom she did not like. Her face would become contorted with 
anger and her whole figure would tremble while she threat- 
ened to '‘slash them into ribbons’" the next time she saw them. 
When her normal self, she was more or less incoherent, and 
when angered she fairly raved. Her comprehension is poor; 
everything has to be explained to her as simply as to a child. 
Her oldest son, Lloyd, with whom she lives, is feeble- 
minded. Like his father, he has never learned to handle a 
horse. He is also illiterate. Sometimes he hires out to the 
farmers, but most of the time he works on the railroad, 
shoveling. The trustee of the township says that this is the 
only work which he can do well. His home is a tiny log house 
of 2 rooms. His wife, who was Jennie Sawyer before her 
marriage, died about 2 months before the visit of the field 
worker. She is said to have been a fairly intelligent woman. 
Her children are all inferior but could scarcely be called feeble- 
minded unless carefully examined. 
The second child of Walter Jones and Sadie Brown died 
in infancy. 
Roscoe, the third child of Walter and Sadie, born in 1882, 
is an insane imbecile at the Southeastern Hospital for the 
Insane. As a boy he was very backward and bashful accord- 
ing to his feeble-minded mother and could never be induced 
to attend school nor to marry. He showed no violent tenden- 
cies until after the death of his brother Walter. He was 
found trying to dig him out of the ground several times and 
showed a disposition to fight when interrupted. He rapidly 
became violent and was taken to the County Jail for safe- 
keeping. From there he was transferred to the County Poor 
Asylum where he was kept chained in the guardhouse for 
several years. He was committed to the Central Insane Hos- 
pital on July 22, 1902, and discharged August 22, 1904, as 
recovered. Then after another long period of years in the 
Poor Asylum, he was sent to the Southeastern Hospital, Octo- 
ber 16, 1912. 
Flossie, the fourth child of Walter Jones, married Dan 
Hicks and lives in the county adjoining County H. She was 
not seen. 
Ollie, the fifth child of Walter Jones, married Glen Ellis 
and lives in Possum Holler, She was not seen but is said to 
