Calhoun County Poorhouse Inmates

1857-1858 Calhoun County Poorhouse Ledger
TRANSCRIBER NOTES: There is a significant amount of missing data for this time period. Columns are blank.      
No. Date Received Name Place of Birth Age [as of date] Cause of Pauperism When & How discharged How Long in Poor House From What Township
  1857              
  Oct 1 Nancy Simmons & child Julia       gave to H H Clark by mother, left 29 day of June 1858 1 y 9 m; 6m 17days Battle Creek
2   " William Brown           Emmett
61   " Rhoda Ann French       Left 29 of June  6m 17days Burlington
70   " Sterling Farley           Albion
93   " John Waring           Marengo
102   " Hester Burnett           Burlington
121   " Hannah (deaf & dumb)           Pennfield
153   " John Jewell       Left Oct 5, 1857 5 days Tekonsha
147   " Jacob Baughman           Homer
182   " Caroline Johnson           Marshall
183   " Rosetta Casteline         "     Oct 9,   " 7   " B  C
184 Nov 8 Mary [illegible] Rix Canada 8 yrs Death of Parents (Col'd)     Convis
185    " Charles               "  [Rix]      " 5   "          "                       "     Albion
186    " Cornelius           "  [Rix]      " 2   "          "                       "        "
187 Dec 24 Frank Peytenger Germany 63  Sick, Intemperate        "
188   "   29 Henry Jonas (So called) Marshall 8    " Int. Father (German) Left July 3rd to J. J. Nelson 6m 5days Eckford
  1858             Marshall
189 Jay 8 Joseph Blodgett America 74 yrs Intemperate      
190 July 8 Frederick Fauschard England 11 yrs Intemperate Mother Left Feby 26 18 days Eckford
191   "   " Philip           "  [Fauschard]      " 8     "       "             "   33.   3 dy Marshall
192   "   24 E. H. Hall New York 22 yrs Imbecile          "
193 July 6 Lucy Ann Gibbs [illegible] 30   " Husband abandoned her Left Sep 30   Emmett
194   "   " Irma?           "  [Gibbs] [illegible] 5    "   daughter     "      "    "   Bat. Creek
195   "   3 Jane Fuller Penn.   abandonment   "      "   25     "        "
196 May 25 Louisa Page    " 17 Foolish     Convis
197 July 7 John McAlister Mich 9 Illegitimate Aug 1 Left taken by [blank]   Newton
198 Aug 4 Chloe S. Smith Vermont 46 Sick Left Aug 11   Bat. Creek
199   "    " John Simpson New York 80 Old Age       "       "
200 Aug. 16 Wm. H. Beach New York 16 Parents in Prison Left 23d Aug     "       "
201   "     " Patrick O Fannin Ireland 45 Consumption      
202   "     26 Eliza Gibbs N. York 10   Left Sept 30    
203   "     19 Ezra Porter Mich 12 Vagrant Left 27th Aug    
204 Sept 8 Maria Gibbs Poor House 0 Pauper Parents   "    Sept.  30    
205   "     9 Child of Jane Fuller       " 0      "         "   "       "      25    
                 

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