21 December 2009
A Fresh Madness Monday
How fitting. Today, Madness Monday, I seem to have discovered a member of the Zumwalt and Walton families died at the Southwestern Insane Asylum in San Antonio, Texas. I still need proof, but everything seems to fit. Louisa M. Zumwalt, daughter of Adam and Martha Kent Zumwalt, was married to George W. Walton in 1843. By 1900, a widowed Louisa was living alone at the age of about 82. The death report from the asylum (if this is the correct Louisa Walton) lists her death as September 1906. If this is the right individual, why was she institutionalized? Was the hospital used as a nursing home?
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