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| 9:41:30 AM - Sat, Apr 21st 2012 |
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| Am trying to find any information I can find on my aunt that was housed in Eloise mental institution sometime around the late 1920's- early 1930's. How would I go about getting any information about her? I understand she was housed there as a teenager and eventually died there.
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| 6:55:55 PM - Sat, Apr 21st 2012 |
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| Usually census records are a good place to start, then try death records for Michigan. Records for former Eloise patients are few and far between I've been told.
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| 1:13:36 PM - Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 |
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http://www.talesofeloise.com/main.html
This is the best collection on Eloise Asylum that I know of. ( I think ThomasP has a pic on here even.) There is also pictures of the cemetery, etc. I don't know if the author has a listing of those buried on site or not. I myself have not seen one. The 1930's census listing only has the male patients at that time though.
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There are females on the 1930 & 1940 census, there are just more men then women. The 1930 is 122 pages including employees. Try contacting the Westland Historical Commission in Westland, Mi (Phone: 734-326-1110). They don't have complete patients files but they do have a lot of info. I'm not sure who has the old records, I would guess the county still has them since it was a county run institution.
There are about 4,100 patients listed on Findagrave.com buried in the hospital cemeteries. Eloise Cemetery list
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