Alice Warburton was born in Pennsylvania in 1851. She came to Kansas a number of years ago and was brought to the county farm February 9, 1904, from Elk Creek township, where she died February 17, 1919, being conducted by J. F. Hay, and the body was laid away in the county cemetery.
Narka News, February 21, 1919-Taken from The Belleville Telescope.
It is believed by family members that Clara Alice and Edwin C. Warburton were taken to live at the Republican County Poor Farm, because their mother Christina Casselberry Warburton had fallen ill and could no longer care for them. Both being born blind, they depended on her greatly. Clara Alice's obituary states that she was brought to the poor farm on February 9, 1904. Christina died about a month and a half later on March 25, 1904.
An Assessor's Report titled "Belleville Social Survey" written by J.J. Sippy (Kansas State Board of Health) and E.W. Burgess (University of Kansas) in 1913 states:
"THE POOR FARM. The public county poor farm is located two miles southwest of Belleville. Although the poor farm is a county, and not a city, institution, the biggest responsibility in connection with it lies upon Belleville. One-third of the present inmates are from Belleville. The farm itself is on the outskirts of the community. If improvements are to be made, Belleville citizens must take the initiative.
The Poor House proper is a one-story annex to the farm house. It consists of a central hall which is a living room for the inmates with a number of bedrooms off from it on each side. The central hall is dark and gloomy; the bedrooms are small and cheerless. A common basin serves for washing the face and hands of all and for bathing. A comb and brush is used in common. There are no individual towels. The inmates are provided with none of the accessory toilet articles, such as tooth-brushes. The provision for bathing is totally inadequate. There is one bath-tub on the place in an outbuilding where one of the men stays, because occasionally he desires 'to take a bath'. It is outrageous to subject the poor and physically disabled of the county to such treatment. The unsanitary conditions and the lack of attention to personal hygiene subject the healthy inmates to unavoidable dangers of infection from diseased inmates.
The conditions described here are not peculiar to Republic County but are common to nearly all Kansas counties. Religious services every Sunday afternoon will not help the difficulty very much.
THE INMATES. There were sixteen different inmates during the year 1913 in the Republic County poor farm. Of these, only six were born in the United States and none were born in Kansas. Of foreign countries Sweden, Bohemia, and England contribute three each. Six of the inmates came from Belleville and the remainder from other towns and townships in the county. A study of the ages shows that the poor farm is an old people's home. The youngest person there is forty-two. The oldest was ninety-six. Six of the inmates are over eighty. The average age is seventy and seven-tenths years, the scriptural "three score years and ten" of a long life.
The poor farm is not only a home for the aged but also infirmary and an asylum for the feeble-minded and insane. Of the twelve who were in the poor farm at the time the survey was made, three were found to be blind, one of these was also a cripple, another had a short leg, and still another was otherwise physically disabled. One of the inmates was insane, two were feeble-minded, one had epileptic fits and another was in a state of senile insanity. Only two of the twelve inmates were declared by the keeper to be normal in mind and body. It is high time that we recognize that the inmates at our poor farm are for the most part old people who are in addition either physical wrecks or mentally deficient.
It is thought that the poor farm was used until after World War II, and that is was then closed down. That would have been between 1945 to 1950. When looking for where the poor farm had been descendants found only an area that was covered with trees and weeds. There was no sign of buildings or of gravestones.
Narka News, February 21, 1919-Taken from The Belleville Telescope.
It is believed by family members that Clara Alice and Edwin C. Warburton were taken to live at the Republican County Poor Farm, because their mother Christina Casselberry Warburton had fallen ill and could no longer care for them. Both being born blind, they depended on her greatly. Clara Alice's obituary states that she was brought to the poor farm on February 9, 1904. Christina died about a month and a half later on March 25, 1904.
An Assessor's Report titled "Belleville Social Survey" written by J.J. Sippy (Kansas State Board of Health) and E.W. Burgess (University of Kansas) in 1913 states:
"THE POOR FARM. The public county poor farm is located two miles southwest of Belleville. Although the poor farm is a county, and not a city, institution, the biggest responsibility in connection with it lies upon Belleville. One-third of the present inmates are from Belleville. The farm itself is on the outskirts of the community. If improvements are to be made, Belleville citizens must take the initiative.
The Poor House proper is a one-story annex to the farm house. It consists of a central hall which is a living room for the inmates with a number of bedrooms off from it on each side. The central hall is dark and gloomy; the bedrooms are small and cheerless. A common basin serves for washing the face and hands of all and for bathing. A comb and brush is used in common. There are no individual towels. The inmates are provided with none of the accessory toilet articles, such as tooth-brushes. The provision for bathing is totally inadequate. There is one bath-tub on the place in an outbuilding where one of the men stays, because occasionally he desires 'to take a bath'. It is outrageous to subject the poor and physically disabled of the county to such treatment. The unsanitary conditions and the lack of attention to personal hygiene subject the healthy inmates to unavoidable dangers of infection from diseased inmates.
The conditions described here are not peculiar to Republic County but are common to nearly all Kansas counties. Religious services every Sunday afternoon will not help the difficulty very much.
THE INMATES. There were sixteen different inmates during the year 1913 in the Republic County poor farm. Of these, only six were born in the United States and none were born in Kansas. Of foreign countries Sweden, Bohemia, and England contribute three each. Six of the inmates came from Belleville and the remainder from other towns and townships in the county. A study of the ages shows that the poor farm is an old people's home. The youngest person there is forty-two. The oldest was ninety-six. Six of the inmates are over eighty. The average age is seventy and seven-tenths years, the scriptural "three score years and ten" of a long life.
The poor farm is not only a home for the aged but also infirmary and an asylum for the feeble-minded and insane. Of the twelve who were in the poor farm at the time the survey was made, three were found to be blind, one of these was also a cripple, another had a short leg, and still another was otherwise physically disabled. One of the inmates was insane, two were feeble-minded, one had epileptic fits and another was in a state of senile insanity. Only two of the twelve inmates were declared by the keeper to be normal in mind and body. It is high time that we recognize that the inmates at our poor farm are for the most part old people who are in addition either physical wrecks or mentally deficient.
It is thought that the poor farm was used until after World War II, and that is was then closed down. That would have been between 1945 to 1950. When looking for where the poor farm had been descendants found only an area that was covered with trees and weeds. There was no sign of buildings or of gravestones.
Alice Warburton was born in Pennsylvania in 1851. She came to Kansas a number of years ago and was brought to the county farm February 9, 1904, from Elk Creek township, where she died February 17, 1919, being conducted by J. F. Hay, and the body was laid away in the county cemetery.
Narka News, February 21, 1919-Taken from The Belleville Telescope.
It is believed by family members that Clara Alice and Edwin C. Warburton were taken to live at the Republican County Poor Farm, because their mother Christina Casselberry Warburton had fallen ill and could no longer care for them. Both being born blind, they depended on her greatly. Clara Alice's obituary states that she was brought to the poor farm on February 9, 1904. Christina died about a month and a half later on March 25, 1904.
An Assessor's Report titled "Belleville Social Survey" written by J.J. Sippy (Kansas State Board of Health) and E.W. Burgess (University of Kansas) in 1913 states:
"THE POOR FARM. The public county poor farm is located two miles southwest of Belleville. Although the poor farm is a county, and not a city, institution, the biggest responsibility in connection with it lies upon Belleville. One-third of the present inmates are from Belleville. The farm itself is on the outskirts of the community. If improvements are to be made, Belleville citizens must take the initiative.
The Poor House proper is a one-story annex to the farm house. It consists of a central hall which is a living room for the inmates with a number of bedrooms off from it on each side. The central hall is dark and gloomy; the bedrooms are small and cheerless. A common basin serves for washing the face and hands of all and for bathing. A comb and brush is used in common. There are no individual towels. The inmates are provided with none of the accessory toilet articles, such as tooth-brushes. The provision for bathing is totally inadequate. There is one bath-tub on the place in an outbuilding where one of the men stays, because occasionally he desires 'to take a bath'. It is outrageous to subject the poor and physically disabled of the county to such treatment. The unsanitary conditions and the lack of attention to personal hygiene subject the healthy inmates to unavoidable dangers of infection from diseased inmates.
The conditions described here are not peculiar to Republic County but are common to nearly all Kansas counties. Religious services every Sunday afternoon will not help the difficulty very much.
THE INMATES. There were sixteen different inmates during the year 1913 in the Republic County poor farm. Of these, only six were born in the United States and none were born in Kansas. Of foreign countries Sweden, Bohemia, and England contribute three each. Six of the inmates came from Belleville and the remainder from other towns and townships in the county. A study of the ages shows that the poor farm is an old people's home. The youngest person there is forty-two. The oldest was ninety-six. Six of the inmates are over eighty. The average age is seventy and seven-tenths years, the scriptural "three score years and ten" of a long life.
The poor farm is not only a home for the aged but also infirmary and an asylum for the feeble-minded and insane. Of the twelve who were in the poor farm at the time the survey was made, three were found to be blind, one of these was also a cripple, another had a short leg, and still another was otherwise physically disabled. One of the inmates was insane, two were feeble-minded, one had epileptic fits and another was in a state of senile insanity. Only two of the twelve inmates were declared by the keeper to be normal in mind and body. It is high time that we recognize that the inmates at our poor farm are for the most part old people who are in addition either physical wrecks or mentally deficient.
It is thought that the poor farm was used until after World War II, and that is was then closed down. That would have been between 1945 to 1950. When looking for where the poor farm had been descendants found only an area that was covered with trees and weeds. There was no sign of buildings or of gravestones.
Narka News, February 21, 1919-Taken from The Belleville Telescope.
It is believed by family members that Clara Alice and Edwin C. Warburton were taken to live at the Republican County Poor Farm, because their mother Christina Casselberry Warburton had fallen ill and could no longer care for them. Both being born blind, they depended on her greatly. Clara Alice's obituary states that she was brought to the poor farm on February 9, 1904. Christina died about a month and a half later on March 25, 1904.
An Assessor's Report titled "Belleville Social Survey" written by J.J. Sippy (Kansas State Board of Health) and E.W. Burgess (University of Kansas) in 1913 states:
"THE POOR FARM. The public county poor farm is located two miles southwest of Belleville. Although the poor farm is a county, and not a city, institution, the biggest responsibility in connection with it lies upon Belleville. One-third of the present inmates are from Belleville. The farm itself is on the outskirts of the community. If improvements are to be made, Belleville citizens must take the initiative.
The Poor House proper is a one-story annex to the farm house. It consists of a central hall which is a living room for the inmates with a number of bedrooms off from it on each side. The central hall is dark and gloomy; the bedrooms are small and cheerless. A common basin serves for washing the face and hands of all and for bathing. A comb and brush is used in common. There are no individual towels. The inmates are provided with none of the accessory toilet articles, such as tooth-brushes. The provision for bathing is totally inadequate. There is one bath-tub on the place in an outbuilding where one of the men stays, because occasionally he desires 'to take a bath'. It is outrageous to subject the poor and physically disabled of the county to such treatment. The unsanitary conditions and the lack of attention to personal hygiene subject the healthy inmates to unavoidable dangers of infection from diseased inmates.
The conditions described here are not peculiar to Republic County but are common to nearly all Kansas counties. Religious services every Sunday afternoon will not help the difficulty very much.
THE INMATES. There were sixteen different inmates during the year 1913 in the Republic County poor farm. Of these, only six were born in the United States and none were born in Kansas. Of foreign countries Sweden, Bohemia, and England contribute three each. Six of the inmates came from Belleville and the remainder from other towns and townships in the county. A study of the ages shows that the poor farm is an old people's home. The youngest person there is forty-two. The oldest was ninety-six. Six of the inmates are over eighty. The average age is seventy and seven-tenths years, the scriptural "three score years and ten" of a long life.
The poor farm is not only a home for the aged but also infirmary and an asylum for the feeble-minded and insane. Of the twelve who were in the poor farm at the time the survey was made, three were found to be blind, one of these was also a cripple, another had a short leg, and still another was otherwise physically disabled. One of the inmates was insane, two were feeble-minded, one had epileptic fits and another was in a state of senile insanity. Only two of the twelve inmates were declared by the keeper to be normal in mind and body. It is high time that we recognize that the inmates at our poor farm are for the most part old people who are in addition either physical wrecks or mentally deficient.
It is thought that the poor farm was used until after World War II, and that is was then closed down. That would have been between 1945 to 1950. When looking for where the poor farm had been descendants found only an area that was covered with trees and weeds. There was no sign of buildings or of gravestones.
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