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When young she was considered flighty and high-tempered. 
She became the mother of an illegitimate child by Gerald 
Morris. From that time she continued to become more moody 
and despondent. Her main interests centered about this 
child, who grew up to be a bad boy. It became necessary to 
send him to the Indiana Boys’ School, and Maggie became 
entirely unbalanced. At times she was so violent that her 
relatives feared for their lives, and again she was so de- 
spondent that they feared she would take her own life. She 
was committed to the Southeastern Hospital March 25, 1911, 
where she received the diagnosis of Melancholia. 
George, the son of Maggie, is said to be one of the mean- 
est white men in town. He has served sentences in both the 
Indiana Boys’ School and in the state reformatory. He mar- 
ried the grand-daughter of old Mrs. Kelley, who is his second 
or third cousin. He deserted his wife and is now working 
in Indianapolis. He is both alcoholic and licentious. 
Mrs. Rose Abbott, the youngest child of Oran O’Brian, is 
one of the feeble-minded inmates of the County Poor Asylum. 
Her mental age is 9-7. For many years she has been at the 
Asylum off and on. She goes out in the spring or summer 
and returns in a few months as she cannot support herself. 
She usually comes back with a fresh venereal infection. She 
was the wife of Glen Abbott and he deserted her after the 
birth of their son, Jimmie. She has 1 illegitimate son, Sam- 
mie, by a Hays man. 
Jimmie, the son of Rose and Glen Abbott, was born in 
1898 in County H. He is a middle-grade imbecile who has 
been in the Indiana School for Feeble-minded Youth since 
July 1, 1907. 
Sammie, the illegitimate son of Rose, was born in 1907 
at the County Poor Asylum, He is now living with a farmer 
who intends to keep him. He is a high-grade moron. 
James McCormack, the brother of Catherine McCormack 
O’Brian, married Nancy Lark, a teacher in the old Indiana 
Academy. They had four children: Joseph, Rachael, Re- 
becca, and Mary Ann. The son left home as a young man 
and has not since been heard of. The 2 older girls live in 
Louisville. Mary Ann first married John Gardner, who later 
became the husband of Hazel Johnson. Mary Ann was miser- 
able to behold. She has been alcoholic and immoral all her 
