Source:
Sumner County Archives, Loose Records: Misc: County Farm Inmates 1890, #185.
Oct 6, 1890
We the undersigned commissioners of Sumner County Poor
house beg leave to make our report
for the year 1890.
We employed James Kirk to superintend the County farm
and inmates at one hundred and eight dollars per year. We also employed his son as a farm hand
at eight dollars per month. We further agree to board Kirk and family with the exception of his
sugar and coffee.
Rachel Boyles age 61 years Idiotic
Thomas Glover age 45 years Idiotic
Fanny Hesson age 35 years Epileptic
Susan May age 55 years Idiotic
A. Partaire? age 90 years Feeble
John May age 70 years Feeble
Enos Harper age 72 years Feeble
Thomas May age 36 years Idiot
Jane May age 33 years Cook
Susie May age 8 years
Fanny May age 1 year
Wm Foster age 55 years Paralyzed
Total Whites 12
Colored inmates
Claricy Patterson age 30 years Idiot
Milton Young age 20 years Cripple
Peter Baber age 107 years Feeble
Araminta Cothran age 70 years Idiot
Susan Whitaker age 25 years Cripple
Wm Slaughter age 20 years Cripple and epileptic
George Rodgers age 50 Idiotic
Richard Chambers 70 Blind
Total colored 8
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