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seemed to be a loose nondescript affair with no form. She has 
fiery red hair. 
John Terry, the illegitimate son of Mildred Terry McHaley, 
is also insane and feeble-minded. He was first sent to the In- 
diana Boys’ School for incorrigibility. They found him to be 
feeble-minded and had him transferred to the School for 
Feeble-minded Youth. From there at the age of 15 he was 
transferred to the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane. His 
diagnosis is Dementia Praecox. 
Nellie Freeman, the youngest living child of Luke Mc- 
Haley, is a low-grade imbecile about 45 years old. She says 
that she will be 45 when the mulberries get ripe. She has a 
mental age of 4 years and 2 months. She is a tall, angular 
woman, very dirty in appearance. Her speech is not at all 
plain, and, like her sisters, she uses all her facial and throat 
muscles when she tries to talk. She is vulgar and profane. 
When angered she strides up and down the room, swearing 
and throwing her arms like an insane person. When young, 
she married Mahlon Freeman, the epileptic, alcoholic son of a 
normal family. He died leaving 1 child, Alta. When first 
visited, Nellie lived in a four-room shack with 2 negro fami- 
lies. The windows were all broken out and replaced with tin. 
Luke, Frank, Louis, and Nellie were living in 2 of these rooms. 
Grime and filth remain there undisturbed. The family sleeps 
on 2 dirty beds made of rags which have probably not been 
aired or seen the light for months. There is no other furni- 
ture except a stove, 2 chairs, and a number of pine boxes. The 
family does not mix much with the neighbors. Stella and 
Goldie come in and loaf, quarrel, and drink, but they are really 
friendly with no one. The family is not self-supporting. Nel- 
lie does not work and Frank has the same aversion to labor. 
Luke is now too feeble to do much. Nellie claims that her 
father and nephew have illicit sex relations with her, but she 
is so untruthful that her word is not worth much. At present 
she is living in another part of Stonetown with her father and 
nephew. The home is a tiny two-room structure or rather 1 
room with a lean-to in the back. 
Alta, the child of Nellie Freeman, was born in 1898. When 
quite young her limbs were pulled out of place by her drunken 
parents, each of whom was struggling for possession of her. 
The limbs were never set back in place and the little girl 
