mental health

Crazy?

What’s crazy is that the sheriff and a medical professional would consign a man to a notorious mental institution because of his religious fervor.

Wilson News, 24 August 1899.

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  • Philip Falkner — Philip Falkland.

In the 1870 census of Joyners township, Wilson County: David, 17, and Phil Falkland, 15.

On 25 March 1880, Phil Falkland, 21, married Jane Farmer, 20, at Jane Farmer’s in Wilson County.

In the 1880 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: Philip Falkland, 25, and wife Jane, 19.

On 27 December 1888, Phil Falkner, 32, of Toisnot township, married Rachel Woodard, 23, of Toisnot township, in Toisnot township.

On 13 April 1940, Willie Faulkland, 56, widower, born in Wilson County, N.C., to Phil Faulkland and Jane Farmer, married Ella Pender, 58, widow, born in Wilson County to William Hinnant and Lou Hinnant, in Emporia, Greensville County, Virginia.

Willie Faulkland died 1 November 1955 in Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was born 16 November 1883 in Wilson County to Phillip Faulkland and Jannie Farmer; lived at 718 Viola Street; was married; and worked as laborer. Ella Faulkland was informant.

Samuel J. Faulkland died 27 January 1975 in Richmond, Virginia. Per his death certificate, he was born 21 July 1886 in North Carolina to Fields Faulkland and Jane Farmerand worked as a clerk.

  • Peter Cherry

Perhaps, Peter Cherry, born about 1879, who appears in Edgecombe County, N.C., records.

Dew seeks son.

Isaac Dew published this notice in the Daily Times seeking information on the whereabouts of his 23 year-old son Willie Dew, whom he described as “insane.”

Wilson Daily Times, 6 July 1897.

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In the 1880 census of Crossroads township, Wilson County: farmer Isaac Dew, 30; wife Esther, 24; children Annie, 12, Willie, 9, Tobias, 8, Martha, 4, Lesie, 3, and Laura, 2; plus farmer Burden Barnes, 28, and his wife Delphina, 19, who were white.

Willie Dew is not listed in his parents’ household in 1900.

Lewis, former sailor, hangs himself.

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 2 July 1910.

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Possibly, in the 1900 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: Clarisea Lewis, 43, widow, farmer; and children Emma, 18,, 15, Gertrude, 12, Whit, 10, George, 8, Mattie, 6, and Hattie, 3.

In the 1910 census of Connecticut State Prison, Wethersfield town, Hartford County, Connecticut: Edward Lewis, 25, prisoner, born in N.C., does not work; “This man is insane.”

The Government Hospital for the Insane was later known as Saint Elizabeths Hospital.