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Submitted: 1/6/25 • Approved: 1/8/25 • Last Updated: 1/11/25 • R836214-G836211-S3
Charles Clarke
13 Mar 1861 Alba MO
1 Oct 1910
Patient # 1173
Son of Jordan Clarke and Mary Ann McGarrie (sp?) DEATH AT COUNTY FARM: CHARLES CLARK OF CARTERVILLE, A VICTIM OF TUBERCULOSIS: Charles Clark, 49 years old, died of tuberculosis at the county poor farm yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. He came to the county institution from Carterville about a year ago. Last spring he applied to the county court to be sent to the state tuberculosis sanitarium at Mt. Vernon, Missouri, and his petition was granted, but the management at the sanitarium refused to receive him on account of the advanced state of his ailment. He was then, at his request supplied with a tent at the poor farm and he slept and lived out in the open air there all summer. He improved a good deal under this arrangement, but yesterday he was suddenly taken with a hemorrhage and died in a few moments. He has no known relatives. The funeral was held this morning at 11 o'clock and the interment will be in the cemetery grounds at the county farm.
Eliza Gilbert Claypool
5 Jan 1842 IA
15 Nov 1926
Daughter of Eneth Gilbert and Augusta Kenofe, married Jeremiah L Claypool about 1870
Mrs Collins
unknown
19 Oct 1902
Patient # 763
No Data
Unclear if she is any relation to J W Collins who was also a resident at the Almshouse
J W Collins
1863
13 Jun 1905
Patient # 908
No Data
Samuel Cook
unknown
6 Jul 1904
Patient # 847
He may have been married to Francis A Moore 9 Aug 1876 Jasper MO
Two Deaths at the Poor Farm. Mrs. Matilda Toliver, aged 86 years, died at the poor farm Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock of old age. She came to the farm from Joplin about a year ago. Samuel Cook, aged about 40 years who bad been brought from Alba the evening before, died Wednesday at noon of blood poisoning. The blood poisoning arose from an injury to his foot which was much swollen. The funerals of both occurred yesterday and the interment was in the cemetery the poor farm. - Press The Webb City Sentinel Webb City, Missouri · Saturday, July 09, 1904
William Harrison Cook
21 Jan 1853
13 Aug 1910
Patient # 1200
Pauper a Suicide. Without money, home or friends dependent upon the county for maintenance, broken in health and facing idiocy as the certain result of a mental disease, William, Harrison Cook, 58 years old, decided life was not worth living at the county poor farm Saturday, and SO he ended it. Four times he slashed a razor's edge across his throat, cutting through muscle, nerve and windpipe, but by remarkable chance leaving the jugular vein and carotid artery injured. Not until the gushing blood so weakened him that the razor fell from his hands did he stop his frenzied hacking at his own throat. A physician tried to save his life by sewing the severed windpipe together, but the jugular vein, which had escaped rupture from the razor, burst during the operation and Cook died, as he desired to do. Missouri Jasper The Jasper County News 1910 Aug 18 Page 4
Bernard “Barney” Coop or Koop
1834
1 Jun 1893
Patient # 166
No Data
I O Copeland
1823
19 Apr 1907
Patient # 1021
No Data
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