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When 15 years old she had a mental age of 8.6 years by the 
Goddard scale. She was in the fourth grade scale. She was in 
the fourth grade, having been promoted not because she de- 
served promotion, but because she was too large to be kept 
with the small children and could do no better work in the 
second grade than in the fourth. She was good-natured about 
her failures and really tried to do her work. In personal ap- 
pearance she is very unattractive, her face being asymmetri- 
cal. She also possesses a saddle nose and bad scrofulous scars 
on her neck and face. She is kindly and affectionate, but not 
many people ever respond to her because of her filthy body 
and clothes. Her awkward and ungainly gait was noticeable. 
When 16 years old, she married a Johns who had recently 
come to Stonetown from Kentucky to work in the stone quar- 
ries. She now has a baby who has the same peculiar asym- 
metrical face as Alice. 
Janie Gardner, the third child of Hazel and John, is a 
seventeen-year-o!d girl in the fourth grade at school. At the 
age of 14, her mental age was 8.8 by the Goddard. In school 
she does not seem to make the slightest effort to do the work. 
She never answers questions but stares straight ahead of her. 
Her saddle nose, expressionless eyes, lifeless hair, and slovenly, 
filthy person mark her as a low-grade moron. Her immoral 
tendencies are well known to all the neighborhood. It would 
seem that the greater part of her associates are among the 
colored boys on her street. 
Glen Gardner, the fourth child of Hazel and John, is 12 
years old. When 9 years old he tested 6 by the Goddard. 
His teachers says that he is ‘‘just like his sisters^\ 
Leonard, the fifth child of Hazel and John Gardner, when 
8 years old could not talk plainly enough to be understood 
and physically looked more like a child of 4 years than of 8. 
He is now living in a nearby town with his mother. 
James, the fourth child of Otis and Catherine Johnson, 
v/as born in 1883 in 0. County. He was always considered 
weak-minded by his family, which condition is caused by fits 
according to them. In 1903 he was sent to the Central Insane 
Hospital and from there was transferred to the Southeastern 
in 1910 where his diagnosis is Epileptic Insanity. He is now a 
dement of the lowest stage. He is still able to sit on his 
bench in a row with 7 other dements but is unable to feed or 
