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EMMA LANE – Singer Songwriter
EMMA LANE is my beautiful daughter. I’m so proud of her on so many different levels. Emma is a singer/songwriter who is working her way up the old-fashioned way with hard work, determination, and real...
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The Iron Coffin – Eastern State Hospital Cemetery
Phil Tkacz, President of the Eastern State Hospital Cemetery Preservation Project in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, is confronting the same problems with the federal HIPAA Law that many other...
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Giving Names To Numbers – Central Louisiana State Hospital Cemetery
Giving Names to Numbers. Central Louisiana State Hospital Cemetery Project Here is another example of a group, Committee for the Preservation and Enhancement of Central Louisiana State Hospital...
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Oregon State Hospital – Cremains
Honoring the Past – List of Unclaimed Cremains Mental Health – Portland, Oregon Maisel Library Of Dust Oregon State Hospital-New York Times Once a ‘Cuckoo’s Nest,’ Now a Museum - Oregon State Hospital...
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“Breakthrough For Medical Genealogy” by Judy G. Russell – HIPAA 2013
Great article by Judy G. Russell, re-posted with permission. I have contacted the New York State Office of Mental Health asking their position on this new ruling. Hopefully, they will respond soon....
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1872 “Bone Yard”– The Remember Garden
These two documents from the Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Monroe, shed a great deal of light on the forgotten cemetery that was uncovered by excavation in Highland Park,...
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“Lost Luggage, Recovered Lives” by Peter Stastny, MD, and Darby Penney, MLS
The Lives They Left Behind Suitcases From A State Hospital Attic offered a ray of hope for people like me, who had discovered that an ancestor was a former patient who died at Willard State Hospital. I...
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Man With Psychosis Recalls Nevada Patient Dumping – ABC News
This is very sad! Man With Psychosis Recalls Nevada Patient Dumping – ABC News. More cases found of Nevada busing mental patients out of state by Cynthia Hubert. Details released about discipline at...
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Willard Tour – May 18, 2013
If anyone is interested, a tour of the historic buildings at the former Willard State Hospital and the cemetery will be on Saturday, May, 18, 2013. For more information, please click on the link....
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Notes & Insights from Craig Williams – Willard Cemetery
Here are some wonderful notes, used with permission, from Craig Williams, Curator of History at the New York State Museum at Albany, concerning the burial ledgers of the Willard State Hospital...
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Mental Illness & Prisons
It took 150 years but it appears we have come full circle in the way we treat the mentally ill. TRAPPED: Mental Illness In America’s Prisons – Feature Video by Jenn Ackerman No Peace Outside “The Box”...
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Mohansic State Hospital Cemetery
Mohansic State Hospital served the counties of Yorktown and Westchester. As far as I know, there is no group for this cemetery. I have created a page for each state hospital and custodial institution...
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Pilgrim State Hospital Cemetery
Pilgrim State Hospital served the counties of Brentwood, Suffolk, and New York. As far as I know, there is no group for this cemetery. I have created a page for each state hospital and custodial...
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Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Rochester State Hospital served the counties of Monroe and Livingston. My understanding is that the anonymous graves are located in section Y of Mt. Hope Cemetery. As far as I know, there is no group...
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St. Lawrence State Hospital Cemetery
St. Lawrence State Hospital served the counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Onondaga, Oswego, and St. Lawrence. As far as I know, there is no group for this cemetery. I have created...
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Utica State Hospital Cemetery
Utica State Hospital served the counties of Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Saratoga, Schenectady, and Warren. As far as I know, there is no group for this cemetery. I have created a...
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Craig Colony Cemetery
Craig Colony – New York State Custodial Institution for Epileptics. As far as I know, there is no group for this cemetery. I have created a page for each state hospital and custodial institution...
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Letchworth Village Cemetery
Letchworth Village – New York State Custodial Institution. As far as I know, there is no group for this cemetery. I have created a page for each state hospital and custodial institution cemetery that I...
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Newark Feeble-Minded Cemetery
New York State Custodial Institution for women for the developmentally disabled. As far as I know, there is no group for this cemetery. I have created a page for each state hospital and custodial...
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Rome Feeble-Minded Cemetery
New York State Custodial Institution for developmentally disabled children and adults. As far as I know, there is no group for this cemetery. I have created a page for each state hospital and custodial...
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