May 3rd

Births:

1893 Mabel Lathrop in Illinois the daughter of George & Rosa (Petty) Lathrop

Amy Shaw daughter of Arthur & Marcia (Johnson) Shaw

Jed Hall son of Jeffrey & Mary (Bond) Hall

Marriages:

1866 Richard Thompson & Nancy Colclasure in Clay Co. IL.  Nancy was the daughter of Abraham & Catherine (Galbreath) Colclasure born 1838.  They had 9 children.  Nancy died before 1931.

1868 James Fitzgerald & Sarah Wise in Noble, IL.  James was the son of Derrit & Susaanah (Ferguson) Fitzgerald born 1820 in Gibson Co. IN.  Sarah was his second wife.  They had one son He married Elizabeth Taylor ca. 1841.  They had 5 children.    James died in 1872 in Illinois.

1893 John Gurley & Mary Eichorn.  John born 1846 in Illinois was the son of Leonard & Nancy (Warren) Gurley.  He was deaf and dumb.  She was born 1860 in Illinois the daughter of Peter Eichorn.

Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb - Deaf-Mutes

Eichorn, Mary, home Spring Bay, Woodford Co., not self-supporting, age when became deaf - birth, not semi-mute or semi-deaf, has been institutionalized for 3 7/12 years

This has to be the saddest census record I’ve ever used.  It is 38 pages and is called the U.S. Federal Census – 1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent and Delinquent Classes.  It begins with a census of the Jacksonville prison inmates and then moves through the list of insane, blind, deaf & dumb and orphans.  It does not give the current ages of the inmates.  It does list the cause of deafness.  These include diseases and other causes such as typhoid fever, measles, spotted fever, scarlet fever, brain fever, diphtheria, scrofula, chill and quinine.

They appear on a special census of deaf family marriages in 1893:

Marriage Record of John J. Gurley and Mary E. Eichorn

1. Date of marriage? May 30/93
2. Place of marriage? Peoria, Ill. 

Questions to be answered by Husband

1. Name of your father? Leonard C. Gurley
2. Give your full name and date of birth.  John J. Gurley b. 1848
3. How many are or were deaf? 1
4. Ar you deaf or hearing? Deaf
5. If deaf:  Age when deafness occurred.  Birth
6. Cause of deafness?  no answer
7. Attended what School or Institution?  Ill. Inst.
8. Residence when admitted?  New Franklin, Ind.
9. Year when admitted?  1868 [Either #9 or #10 is incorrect as he would have been 20 in 1868 and he would have been admitted in 1858 had he been 10]
10. Age when admitted? 10 
11. Years under instruction? 2
12. Present residence?  Pawnee, Ill.
13. Occupation? Laborer

Questions to be answered by Wife

1. Name of your father? Peter Eichorn
2. Give your full name and date of birth.  Mary Eichorn b. 1860
3. How many are or were deaf? 1
4. Are you deaf or hearing? Deaf
5. If deaf:  Age when deafness occurred.  Birth
6. Cause of deafness? no answer
7. Attended what school or institution?  Ill.
8. Residence when admitted?  Spring Bay, Ill.
9. Year when admitted? 1875
10. Age when admitted? 15
11. Years under instruction? 9
12. Present residence? Pawnee, Ill.
13. Occupation? no answer

Remarks: From Ill. Advance Additions from Census Cards 1890

Date of information:  May 20, 1893

Signed H.D. Delong

Unfortunately, Mary died in 1895.  She is buried in Zion Cemetery, Pawnee, IL.  John died in Union Co. IL in 1927 and he is buried in Thomason Cemetery, Wayne City, IL.

This past week I got J.J.'s admittance record to the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.  He was admitted as patient # 304, Oct. 12, 1858.  It gives his whole name as John Jasper Gurley and his occupation was a farmer.  He was 10 on January 22nd.  Lastly, his address was given as New Franklin Post Office in Wayne Co., IL, not Indiana as he reported above.  

1957 John Jones & Shirley Bond in Torrance, CA.  John is the son of James & Pearl (Keene) Jones & Shirley is the daughter of Henry & Lula (Robertson) Bond.  They have five children.