Poor Farms

[Rattlesnake Gal]

Originally Posted by luru

Hi,
I have been doing my ancestry and my 7th great grandfather i found was in the Belknap County Farm in 1850. The old farm which is where the new one is now, housed the poor, the feeble, etc. Sadly I found out that they were treated poorly. They were forgotten. When they died they were stripped of their identities and heritage and buried in graves with just a number on the stone. There is a cemetary for paupers behind the aavid engineering building. The stones have numbers 1-30. So sad . No records to my knowledge at this time of their identities. There were about 3 rows of stones with names and dates around 1877, but the rest were just a number. So Sad.

Lu

Would that be Levi Lovitt? The Gunstock Parish, by Adair Mulligan, states that he was a resident at the poor farm that was located across the road from where Ellacoya State Park is now. He was a Basketmaker.

Guess the towns did what they could back then. Tough times.