DECEASED STATE HOSPITAL PATIENTS 1850 - 1870
Jacksonville, Morgan County, IL
The following was written by Florence Hutchison when she published this list in September 1985:
The following names of deceased State Hospital Patients were found in an old book in the basement of that Institution, showing burials for patients who died and were buried from 1852 - 1870. We assume that they were referred to as “The Red Barn Burials”, and that they were buried in the pasture on a hill south of the old milk barn. All of these farm lands are now leased to the Prairieland Heritage Museum organization. Land was purchased for the institution and for farming on May 15, 1847 and June 4th following. The State Hospital for the Insane was built and opened November 3, 1851 under James H. Higgins, M.D., of Griggsville, as medical superintendent. He remained in charge of the institution until June 6, 1853, when Andrew McFarland, M.D., was chosen to supercede Dr. Higgins. The next superintendent was Dr. Henry Frost Carriel, M.D., who assumed duties at the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane, in July 1870. At that time this was the only asylum for the insane in Illinois and it contained 450 patients.
There was a distinct change in the burial place of deceased patients buried in Jacksonville at this latter change of administration. The hill south of the Red Barn was then apparently abandoned as a burial ground, and the patients buried in Section D of Diamond Grove Cemetery which had opened two years before. In neither of these were headstones ever set up.
As of April 11, 1883 a large plot of land for a burial site was purchased by the State of Illinois in Section H of Diamond Grove Cemetery, and burials continued there until November 2, 1954. The next burial was on the Hospital farm grounds, south of the Red Barn, on November 14, 1954, and is still used today. Recently a concrete monument and sign designates it as Emanuel East Cemetery. This is across Lincoln Avenue east of Calvary Cemetery.
There is no other record available for the following list of these deceased state hospital patients. State Law did not require death certificates to be filed until 1878, so do not write to the County Clerk expecting more information; nor to the Jacksonville Development Center, for they do not have the old records. Likewise, the City Clerk does not have any more information than that given here.
Fortunately the old burial book indicated the County of Residence in most cases. We do not know what the number relates to, unless it is the number of the patient on the original record book.
Those records were closed by State Law about 4 years ago, so we have no way of checking for further information. Sorry, but this is all there is. But it is better than nothing at all. It identifies a lot of people who were otherwise “lost souls”.
** = Indicates Death Date but not burial here
| No. | Name of Deceased | Death Date | County From, Age, Born Where, Occupation |
| Alston, Jane | 10 June 1866 | Jo Daviess | |
| 4578 | Andrews, Ruth | 9 Feb 1857 | Vermilion |
| Arkebauer, Diannah | 22 Sep 1865 | Morgan | |
| 1906 | Axtel, Caroline | 3 July 1864 | Warren - Her body taken away by friends March 1865 |
| Ayers, Stephen | 12 Jan 1870 | Knox | |
| Baldwin, Ellen M. | 15 Dec 1865 | Madison | |
| Ball, William | 22 Oct 1867 | Crawford | |
| Beckett, Singleton P. | 9 Oct 1865 | Fulton (age 49) - Body removed 17 Oct 1865 | |
| Behrens, Anna A. | 29 Sep 1869 | DuPage | |
| 1314 | Bell, Charlotte | 10 Oct 1860 | Hancock |
| Benson, Swan | 30 Dec 1866 | Bureau | |
| 66 | Blankenship, Henry | 28 Mar 1859 | Clinton |
| 599 | Bloom, Frances | 29 Mar 1858 | DuPage |
| bosham, J. D. | |||
| 1239 | Brazill, Lawrence | 30 Oct 1860 | Livingston, age 42, from Ireland, Tinner |
| Brickwood, Eliza Jane | 6 Jan 1866 | Rock Island "Removed 29 Jan 1866" | |
| Brown, Edward | 18 Dec 1865 | Cook "Removed 26 Feb 1866" | |
| 936 | Brown, Norman H. | 15 Aug 1858 | Fayette |
| Brown, thomas | 14 Sep 1868 | Macon | |
| Buher/Buker ?, Margaret | 1 Sep 1866 | Peoria | |
| 1920 | Bute, Lewis | 13 June 1864 | Lake |
| 258 | Camp, Jared L. | 9 Dec 1854 | Madison |
| 701 | Campbell, Catherine | 1 Oct 1856 | Lee |
| Campbell, Susan | 11 Apr 1868 | Shelby | |
| 1770 | Carnehan, Angeline | 23 Aug 1863 | Saline |
| 483 | Carrigan, John | 4 Jan 1856 | Adams |
| Casey, Drury B. | 3 Sep 1867 | Jefferson | |
| Chapman, William | 25 Dec 1865 | Washington | |
| 1685 | Chenoweth, Austin | 19 Apr 1863 | Williamson |
| Chrisman ?, Catherine | 25 July 1870 | Tazewell (Listed as Ehrisman) | |
| Churchward, Alonzo | 4 Mar 1869 | Richland | |
| 2069 | Clark, Betsy | 27 Feb 1865 | LaSalle age 56, from Mass. Housekeeper |
| 685 | Clark, Elizabeth | 23 Feb 1859 | Pike |
| 853 | Clark, Henry R. | 12 Dec 1857 | Madison |
| 1289 | Colson, Christiana | 28 Sep 1860 | Rock Island |
| 964 | Connely, Bridget | 10 Aug 1858 | Pike |
| 872 | Conner, Martha A. | 27 Feb 1858 | Jo Daviess |
| Coons, Eliza | 11 July 1868 | Kankakee | |
| 198 | Copeland, Larinda | 6 Apr 1857 | Logan |
| Cornel, Alice | 26 June 1867 | Sangamon - "removed by friends 11 July 1867" | |
| 1487 | Crabtree, Elizabeth | 27 Oct 1861 | Champaign |
| Crabtree, Zenas | 10 Nov 1867 | Champaign | |
| Craig, Robert | 2 July 1866 | Pike | |
| 1667 | Crawford, James B. | 10 June 1864 | Edgar |
| Creighton, Thomas | 31 Mar 1866 | Piatt "removed 6 Apr 1866" | |
| 992 | Cully, Ellen | 29 Jan 1859 | Fulton |
| Cummiskey, Thomas J. | 17 Aug 1866 | Lee | |
| Currenson, Frederick | 16 June 1869 | Cook | |
| Cutter, Harrison H. | 16 May 1868 | Will | |
| 2017 | Darling, Simeon | 26 July 1864 | Winnebago |
| David, Edith | 21 Aug 1866 | Fulton | |
| Davis, Dinah | 6 Sep 1868 | Madison | |
| Davis, Lacey | 25 Apr 1867 | Stephenson | |
| ** | Dean, Harriet W. | Jan 1860 | (1860 Census) age 56, unk, widowed |
| 1354 | Delay, Jane L. | 15 Jan 1861 | Vermilion |
| Deutter, Robert C. | 9 Dec 1869 | Mason | |
| 1402 | Devore, Ann | 1 Dec 1861 | Alexander |
| DeWitt, William H. | 25 July 1870 | Logan | |
| 1003 | Dimick, Adaline | 15 May 1859 | Stephenson |
| 51 | Dodge, William C. | 17 Mar 1857 | Schuyler |
| 19 | Donevan, Martha Jane | 1854 | Vermilion |
| 499 | Doolittle, William | 2 Oct 1855 | Crawford |
| Dorsey, Mary | 28 Aug 1865 | Montgomery | |
| Dougherty, Ann | 22 Jan 1870 | Cook | |
| 585 | Drane, John | 7 Nov 1856 | Tazewell |
| 192 | Duckworth, Semple | 14 July 1854 | Hamilton |
| Dunn/Gunn ?, Christopher | 19 Jan 1870 | McHenry | |
| 1881 | Eames, Mary | 21 Mar 1865 | Cook |
| 1968 | Easton, Cinthia A. | 29 June 1864 | Douglas |
| Ehrisman, Catharine | 25 July 1870 | Tazewell | |
| Ellec, Mary P. | 6 Dec 1869 | Champaign | |
| 957 | Erwin, Kiturah | 22 July 1859 | Williamson |
| 1548 | Evans, Sarah E. | 24 May 1863 | Peoria |
| 307 | Ewen, James | 17 Jan 1855 | DeKalb |
| 871 | Fairbanks, John | 1 Feb 1858 | Randolph |
| 504 | Fairman, Henry | 29 Oct 1855 | Kankakee |
| Farrell/Ferrill, Priscilla | 10 Nov 1867 | St. Clair age 36 | |
| Fillwoeber, Catherine | 2 Dec 1867 | Cook | |
| Fisher, Jeanette D. | 10 Nov 1867 | Logan | |
| Fisher, Martha | 13 Feb 1852 | Morgan | |
| Fitzgerald, Catherine | 8 Aug 1869 | LaSalle | |
| Foley, Ellen | 16 Nov 1867 | Sangamon "body taken home" | |
| 929 | Ford, Polly | 2 Sep 1860 | Perry |
| Fox, Elijah | 5 Jan 1870 | Wabash "body removed 11 Jan 1870" | |
| Frein, Emma | 25 June 1865 | Lee | |
| Frost, William J. | 27 Dec 1869 | Edwards | |
| Gates, Martin | 16 Sep 1869 | Adams | |
| Gaugherty, Timothy | 20 Dec 1866 | Morgan | |
| 1101 | Geiger, Frederick E. | 28 May 1860 | Jo Daviess age 35, b. Germany, Occupation Mason |
| Gilman, Ann | 12 Apr 1865 | Douglas | |
| Gore, Elizabeth | 30 Mar 1867 | Mercer | |
| Gray, Donald | 24 Oct 1867 | Henry | |
| 844 | Grover, Salmon | 19 Sep 1858 | Shelby |
| Hale, Henry | 30 Oct 1868 | Kane | |
| Hall, Susan A. | 26 Oct 1870 | Fulton | |
| 188 | Hamilton, Elisha | 4 Feb 1855 | Pike |
| Hamilton, William P. | 14 July 1870 | Franklin | |
| Hanson, Christiana | 23 July 1868 | Whiteside | |
| Hardwick, Minerva | 21 July 1865 | Jersey "body removed 1 Aug 1865" | |
| Harshey, Elizabeth | 22 May 1856 | DeWitt | |
| Hastings, Bazil | 18 July 1870 | Fulton | |
| 1999 | Haunger, Caroline | 17 July 1864 | Cook |
| 496 | Haviland, Elizabeth | 24 Oct 1855 | Iroquois |
| Haymon, Mary A | 18 Nov 1866 | Scott | |
| 993 | Hazel, French N. | 27 May 1861 | Greene age 57, born Ky, Farmer |
| 1807 | Heclan, Bridget | 19 Jan 1864 | Kane |
| 1994 | Henrick, Columbus | 17 Feb 1865 | Gallatin |
| 638 | Henson, Elizabeth | 30 Mar 1865 | Morgan, age 27, born IL, Housekeeper |
| 1335 | Hepburn, Oscar L. | 11 Jan 1861 | Cook |
| 413 | Hoffman, Wilhelmina | Cook | |
| Hogan, Ellen | 19 July 1868 | Cook "body removed by friends - typhoid fever" | |
| 688 | Howard, James | 23 Apr 1857 | Warren |
| 1065 | Hull, Josiah | 17 July 1861 | Clark, age 26, born NY, Farmer |
| Husted, Anna | 26 Aug 1865 | Fulton | |
| ** | Irwin, Kitura | July 1859 | ? age 31, born Tenn, Married |
| Jackson, David L. | 15 May 1865 | Gallatin | |
| Jackson, Mary F. | 29 Sep 1869 | Cook | |
| Johnson, John | 5 Feb 1869 | Coles, age 25, born IL, Farmer | |
| 1195 | Joost, Henrietta | 23 Jan 1860 | Cook, age 48, born Germany |
| 1090 | Judy, James P. | 9 Sep 1859 | Tazewell, age 49, born Ohio, Farmer |
| 384 | Kelar/Haler ?, Mary | 24 Dec 1857 | Fulton |
| 222 | Kellogg, Anna | 22 July 1854 | Marshall |
| 578 | Kennedy, Helen | 25 Mar 1857 | Cook |
| Kern, David | 10 Nov 1867 | Shelby | |
| 2014 | Kirk, Nicholas | 25 June 1864 | Knox |
| Kohn, Philip | 11 June 1867 | Kankakee | |
| 430 | Kreeps, Theresa | 19 July 1855 | Jo Daviess |
| Lane, Thomas | 12 June 1870 | Alexander | |
| Laughlin, Ellen | 10 Feb 1867 | Logan "body taken to Springfield by sister" | |
| 847 | Lawson, Jane | 13 Dec 1857 | Peoria |
| 1936 | Layre/Sayre ?, Margarette | 14 July 1864 | Shelby |
| LeGrand, Louisa J. | 22 June 1870 | Macoupin | |
| Lepler, Eve | 21 Oct 1865 | Rock Island | |
| Leslie, Barney | 24 May 1868 | Hancock | |
| Levings, Rhoda | 6 Jne 1865 | Hancock "Body removed 26 Apr 1867" | |
| Lewis, Amos | 24 Sep 1870 | Christian | |
| Lipperwitty, Pauline | 6 Jan 1869 | Cook | |
| Lister, Alfred | 7 Mar 1869 | DeWitt | |
| MaGiveny, Charles J. | 25 June 1867 | Sangamon "Body removed 28 June 1867" | |
| Mahan, John W. | 17 Sep 1866 | McLean | |
| 1743 | Mahill, Elizabeth | 28 Mar 1863 | Hancock |
| Makepeace, Alice | 20 Jan 1867 | Pike | |
| 1193 | Makepeace, Frances | 10 Sep 1860 | Pike, age 31, born England, Housekeeper |
| 1276 | Marion, Ruth S. | 3 Apr 1865 | Rock Island |
| Marriner, George | 20 June 1870 | Cook | |
| Martin, George L. | 30 Nov 1869 | Logan "body removed by friends 13 Dec 1869" | |
| McGinn, Mary | 18 Nov 1865 | Jo Daviess | |
| 1219 | McKee, Susan | 5 Mar 1860 | Adams, age 32, born Ireland |
| 1429 | McMillan, Elizabeth | 16 Aug 1863 | Livingston |
| ** | Medgett, Charles B. | Feb 1860 | ? Age 34, born Maine, Merchant |
| Mier, Charles | 1 July 1870 | Logan | |
| 234 | Miller, Barbara | 19 Jan 1859 | St. Clair |
| 324 | Miller, Dorothy | 7 Feb 1858 | Washington |
| 211 | Minkard, Sophia | 22 Dec 1856 | Monroe |
| 180 | Mischon, Philip | 13 Jan 1855 | St. Clair |
| Mohlmann, Christian | 15 July 1868 | Cass "typhoid fever" | |
| Moore, Stephanus | 25 Aug 1870 | Peoria | |
| Morrison, John | 22 Oct 1867 | Fayette | |
| 1748 | Morton, Sophia | 29 Mar 1863 | Peoria |
| Muchmore, Ethelbert E. | 18 Nov 1866 | Crawford | |
| 1070 | Nazworthy, Niles | 16 Jan 1860 | Moultrie, age 32, born Tenn, Farmer |
| 890 | Nichols, Jane | 4 Aug 1861 | Carroll, age 30, born NY |
| 1778 | Nicholson, Frank | 2 Aug 1863 | Marshall |
| O'Brien, John | 12 Oct 1869 | Cook, body removed 1 Nov 1869 by order of mother | |
| 475 | Oldham, George | 12 July 1857 | Gallatin |
| Ong, Nathan | 15 July 1870 | LaSalle "body removed by friends 17 July 1870" | |
| ** | Paddock, Stephen E. | Oct 1859 | age 42, born NY, Teacher |
| 1522 | Patterson, Rachael H. | 25 Jan 1862 | Pike |
| 223 | Phipps, Hannah | 28 Nov 1855 | Winnebago |
| 1095 | Pierce, Henry | 31 Aug 1861 | Crawford, age 23, born MO, Blacksmith |
| Pittenger, Jacob G. | 25 May 1869 | Jersey | |
| 830 | Potter, Mary J. | 27 June 1858 | Fulton |
| Pruitt, Sarah | 3 Mar 1870 | Montgomery | |
| 845 | Quinte, Veronica | 25 Dec 1857 | Cook |
| Radley, John | 6 Nov 1867 | Morgan | |
| 2065 | Rea, William | 15 Oct 1864 | Carroll |
| Reading, John V. | 23 July 1870 | McHenry | |
| Reinoehl, Catherine | 30 Nov 1867 | Crawford | |
| 1102 | Reynolds, Dr. Kilborn W. | 20 Mar 1864 | Winnebago, age 34, born Ohio, Physician |
| 963 | Reynolds, Mary E. | 6 Oct 1858 | Knox |
| 54 | Rhodes, John | 6 Dec 1854 | Macon |
| Richardson, Alpheus | 9 May 1865 | Peoria "Paralysis. Body taken home" | |
| Riggs, Frank H. | 21 Oct 1869 | Jackson "removed by friends." | |
| Rogers, James | 12 Sep 1865 | Hancock | |
| 377 | Rogers, Mary | 2 Nov 1854 | Scott |
| 596 | Rowley, John M. | June 1859 | DeWitt, age 23, born Ohio, Farmer |
| 1936 | Sayre/Layre, Margarette | 14 July 1864 | Shelby |
| Schean, Mary | 10 Aug 1866 | Knox | |
| Schedding, Sebastian | 16 Dec 1869 | Cook | |
| Schilt, John | 31 May 1870 | Richland | |
| Schmidt, Johannes | 31 Oct 1870 | St. Clair | |
| 1909 | Schmidt, Mary | 28 Nov 1864 | Marion |
| Schnell, _____ | Dec 1869 | Rock Island | |
| 1143 | Scott, Thomas J. | 9 Jan 1861 | Jersey, age 21, born IL, Farmer |
| 613 | Scurr, Martha E. | 31 Mar 1859 | Bureau |
| 1329 | Sedgwick, Elizabeth | 28 Jan 1861 | Shelby |
| 908 | Shatz, Alexander | 22 July 1858 | DuPage |
| Simpson, Anna | 18 Nov 1869 | Macoupin | |
| 316 | Simpson, Robert | 22 July 1854 | Winnebago |
| Smith, E. J. | |||
| Smith, Francis P. | 10 Apr 1867 | Edgar | |
| Snow, Julia A. | 4 Sep 1867 | Macoupin | |
| Snyder, Samuel | 3 Mar 1867 | Lee | |
| Spriggs, Eleanor | 2 Nov 1865 | Carroll | |
| Stainbrook, Agnes | 6 Feb 1870 | Putnam | |
| Stenkel, Mina | 22 Apr 1865 | Madison | |
| 546 | Stephens, Wallce | 5 Feb 1856 | Lake |
| 2052 | Stephenson, Harriett L. | 6 Sep 1864 | Williamson |
| 313 | Stewart, Robert | 12 Jan 1856 | Cook |
| 926 | Thornton, William | 20 Sep 1858 | Cook |
| 666 | Toland, Mary | 16 June 1858 | Bond |
| Traxler, David | 22 Aug 1866 | Effingham | |
| Triplet, Sarah | 8 Nov 1867 | Pike, age 65, born Ky, Housekeeper | |
| 1001 | Truog, Elizabeth | 17 Sep 1859 | Morgan, age 27, born Germany |
| Tully, John | 8 June 1870 | Marshall | |
| 1235 | Turner, William V. | 26 Mar 1862 | Sangamon, age 27, born Ky, Farmer |
| Van Blaricum, William | 13 July 1868 | Cook | |
| 1783 | Vickery, Ellen | 10 May 1863 | Cook |
| Walter, Henry | 19 Sep 1869 | Pulaski | |
| 618 | Warfield, William | 13 Jan 1860 | Macoupin, age 30, born IL, Farmer |
| 253 | Weifz, Landolin | 4 Aug 1854 | Tazewell |
| 933 | Welch, Henry C. | 14 Dec 1859 | Sangamon, age 23, NJ, Bookkeeper |
| 770 | Weller, Royal | 28 July 1859 | Madison |
| Whitney, Elizabeth | 26 July 1870 | Warren | |
| 1929 | Wickham, Rose Ann | 26 Sep 1864 | Livingston |
| 1621 | Wigle, Nancy | 27 Jan 1864 | Adams |
| 1544 | Wilbur, Edmon B. | 8 May 1862 | Effingham |
| 441 | Wilbur, Nicholas | 20 Aug 1858 | DeKalb |
| Wilhelm, Minna | 18 Mar 1866 | Cook | |
| Wilkerson, Joseph | 31 Oct 1865 | DeKalb | |
| Wilkes, Benjamin F. | 7 June 1869 | Rock Island | |
| 451 | Willett, James E. | 9 Jan 1856 | Mercer |
| Williams, John | 18 Feb 1869 | Cook | |
| Wilmore, Alfred | 17 Jan 1867 | Kansas | |
| 1457 | Wilson, Olive | 23 Feb 1862 | Williamson |
| 1755 | Wood, Elizabeth M. | 9 Oct 1864 | Edgar |
| 1060 | Wood, Joseph | 11 May 1859 | Cook |
| 515 | Wood, Mary A. | 28 Apr 1856 | Warren, age 32, born NY, Housekeeper |
