Most everyone who has visited the County poor Farm will remember seeing poor Charley Marshall. For the past few years he has lived more like an animal than a human being. He would wear no clothing at all. They tried to put leather clothing on him, but they would last only a few days. He went about on “all fours” like an animal and in the summer time ate grass just like an animal. During the summer months he seemed real healthy but in the winter he would get very poor and sit in one position nearly all winter long. He had lost the power of speech almost altogether and simply grunted like an animal. Monday morning was the first he seemed ill. All day, he refused to take nourishment and about nine o’clock Tuesday morning he died. The writer knew him when he was rather intelligent person. His brother, George, an excellent young man, who resides out in the northeast portion of the county, took charge of the remains and had them interred in Elm Grove cemetery. How nice it was and how kind of the brother to care for and see that he was given a resting place in that cemetery, instead of being laid away in a pauper’s grave. Journal
Fri, May 21, 1897 Kalona Iowa Page : 4
Fri, May 21, 1897 Kalona Iowa Page : 4
Most everyone who has visited the County poor Farm will remember seeing poor Charley Marshall. For the past few years he has lived more like an animal than a human being. He would wear no clothing at all. They tried to put leather clothing on him, but they would last only a few days. He went about on “all fours” like an animal and in the summer time ate grass just like an animal. During the summer months he seemed real healthy but in the winter he would get very poor and sit in one position nearly all winter long. He had lost the power of speech almost altogether and simply grunted like an animal. Monday morning was the first he seemed ill. All day, he refused to take nourishment and about nine o’clock Tuesday morning he died. The writer knew him when he was rather intelligent person. His brother, George, an excellent young man, who resides out in the northeast portion of the county, took charge of the remains and had them interred in Elm Grove cemetery. How nice it was and how kind of the brother to care for and see that he was given a resting place in that cemetery, instead of being laid away in a pauper’s grave. Journal
Fri, May 21, 1897 Kalona Iowa Page : 4
Fri, May 21, 1897 Kalona Iowa Page : 4
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