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In 1894 their [Ellen and John's] oldest daughter Mattie married Rev. Frederick Weiss. The next year Fred and Mattie sailed for Africa on a missionary trip. Ellen was beside herself with worry, began ShearingT Mattie call out to her and she was convinced that her precious daughter would be murdered. The family had a hard time communicating with Ellen as she was in a manic state, she spent three months at the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Clarinda where she improved and was paroled and released back to the farm. By 1899 Ellen had slipped into mania most of the time. She Spreached, read the Bible, refused to help around the house and wanted to be waited on hand and foot. SShe wouldnut eat as she was afraid of being poisoned, was irritable and restless, slept little throughout the night and wandered. The final straw was when she broke the organ and destroyed all the music." At 54 Ellen returned to Clarinda and would stay there for the next 28 years with one brief parole in 1904 when son John Luther took her home for only 12 days.The medical records from the State of Iowa were in the mailbox Monday evening and since that time we have been trying to decipher both the strange handwriting and the poor quality of copy. Most of the records were from microfilm and was printed from there, microfilmed documents can be quite challenging to read. Since there was no photograph of Ellen, her description was my first glimpse of this mysterious ancestor. She was 5u 2T, 130 pounds, dark complexion, gray eyes and dark hair. Her admitting diagnosis was Smania and religious excitementT and was quiet in the initial interview, answered questions appropriately, was occasionally incoherent, had aural hallucinations and seemed to appreciate her current circumstance. At that time she used the Quaker form of speech and had a very passive countenance. It was reviewing her writing that revealed the depths of her insanity. It is also noteworthy that the admission information shows that her mother Hannah (Battin) Kilmer and her maternal grandmother Mary (Hoagland) Battin had both suffered with mental illness, and were considered insane at 50 and 55 years of age respectively.So it was then in July of 1899 Fremont County Sheriff R. S. Tate and daughter Birdie Irwin accompanied Ellen to Clarinda. There were few reports that could be deciphered but in their yearly evaluation they recorded that her physical SbodilyT condition was always reported as good. She is mostly agreeable, neat and orderly in conduct. However, there were many times that she is described as extremely talkative, she would chatter constantly, disturbing the other patients and she could be quite irritable and create some chaos on the ward. Ellen finally left the Insane Asylum on parole in November 1927. In November of 1928 she was completely discharged after the Clarinda team received updates from both Dr. Lovelady and Mattie Weiss. ...Ellen returned to the farm in the fall of 1927 and lived with her son John Luther and daughter-in-law, Ruth B. (Jordan) Whipple. In 1931 Ellen was guest of honor at the home of daughter Birdie Irwin celebrating her 88th birthday. "Notwithstanding he advanced age, she is quite active, is up and around the house helping with the work, enjoys good health and good eyesight."Ellen passed at sunset on August 13, 1935. A true pioneer that led an extremely hard life.
!SOURCE: Clara Hammond McGuigan, The Antecedents and Descendants of Noah Whipple of the Rogerene Community at Quakertown, Connecticut (Ithaca, N.Y.: J.M. Kingsbury, 1971), p. 55, 86.
!SOURCE: Email from Robin Whipple Jefferson (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 19 Sep 2000.
!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Luther Whipple and Eunice Gates, emailed by Charles Snitchler to the Whipple Website, 26 Nov 2003. Not listed in the 1850 census.
!SOURCE: 1900 Census of Sidney, Freemont, Iowa, John Whipple household, listing daughter Martha Weiss (dau). Ellen Weiss (g-dau), Emma G. Weiss (g-dau) and Fred Weiss (son-in-law).
!SOURCE: Post by Sheri Hayes-Olson to the Whipple Website Facebook group, 10 Oct 2014. Cites Find a Grave Web site: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6787762. Gives birth 18 Oct 1843 in Indiana. (Previously entered as Nov 1843 in Pennsylvania.)
!SOURCE: Post to the Whipple Website Facebook group by Henry S. Hayes, 15 Jan 2015. He writes: "'John Bradley Whipple - married - Ellen Morris Kilmer' on April 05, 1860. (NOTE: I got this from - the booklet about 'Whipple Family', written by my 'Aunt Alice Hester Whipple')" (Note: marriage date previously entered as 5 Aug 1859.)
!SOURCE: Post to the Whipple Website Facebook group by Henry S. Hayes, 5 Feb 2015. Gives birth in Pennsylvania.
RIN 30296. Quick link to this page: https://genweb.whipple.org/30296
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