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Daisy, the fifth child of Luke McHaley, died at the age of 
21 years of tuberculosis. The 5 younger children died in in- 
fancy. 
Mary, the second child of Robert and Addie McHaley, was 
a feeble-minded, licentious woman who married Grant Brin- 
son, brother of Catherine Brinson McHaley. He is said to 
have been feeble-minded. They had 5 children: Kate, Bes- 
sie, Lula, Hugh, and a child who died in infancy. Grant is 
now dead, but Mary is said by Luke to be living. 
Kate Brinson, the first child of Mary and Grant, was born 
in 1880. When quite small she with her 2 sisters and a 
brother were placed in the Julia Work Home by the Board of 
Children's Guardians. There they remained until they were 
of age. Kate and Bessie were brought back to County H. and 
kept in the County Poor Asylum for the greater part of the 
next few years. There they had to be continually watched be- 
cause of their immoral tendencies. Finally after a number of 
unfortunate accidents, Kate was taken from the Poor Asylum 
and placed with a dairyman east of tovm, who agreed to pay 
her for what work she could do and give her the protection 
of his home. She has now been in this home under constant 
supervision for 5 or 6 years. She earns her room, board, 
clothes, and $1 per week, which has grown into a nice sum 
considering that Laura has only a mental age of 6 years by 
the Goddard scale. ^ 
Bessie, the second child of Mary and Grant Brinson, is ap- 
proximately of the same mental age as Kate. She has much 
the same moral record as her sister. She stole her sister 
Lula's husband, with whom she lived several months before 
he went back to Lula. Lula in the meantime had come to 
Stonetown from the northern part of the state where she had 
been since leaving the Julia Work Home with another man who 
she said was her husband. Together with Frank McHaley, 
they stole chickens until one night it was necessary for them 
to leave town in a hurry by way of a freight train. They were 
caught in the northern part of the state, where the men were 
placed in jail and Lula was placed in a hospital where her baby 
was born shortly. She was released on a promise to return 
to her true husband. Johnnie, the fourth child of Mary and 
Grant Brinson, died when he was 15 years old. The youngest 
child died in infancy. 
