AleIne WALTER

Notes:

CENSUS RECORDS

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Alene Walters
Age in 1910: 7
Birth Year: abt 1903
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1910: Cannel, Morgan, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William Walters
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Name: Morgret E Walters
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Allene Walters
Age: 17
Birth Year: abt 1903
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1920: Lee City, Wolfe, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William Walters
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Name: Margerett Walters
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Alevia Walter [Alenie Walter]
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1904
Birthplace: Kentucky
Race: White
Home in 1930: Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Patient
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Aleine Walter
Age: 37
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1903
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Kentucky
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Patient
Home in 1940: Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky
House Number: 432
Inferred Residence in 1935: Same Institution
Residence in 1935: Same Institution
Institution: Eastern State Hospital For Insane
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 5th grade
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 3

Information from Find A Grave:

Additional information from the death cert. of Aleine Walters is: She was 30 years old and single. Her parents are not listed. Cause of death was pulmonary tuberculosis; duration 4 years. Contributory cause was dementia praecox; duration 15 years. A former resident of Morgan Co., Ky., she had been a patient at Eastern State Hospital for 8 years, 7 months and 9 days. She died there, on the date above, and was buried in their cemetery on August 20, 1942. (Ky. Death Cert. 17651).

It is possible that the family information on this memorial is incorrect and that instead this is the memorial for Aleine Walters who is the daughter of William Thomas Walters and his wife, Margaret E. Whitaker Walters. In their household in the 1910 census of Morgan Co., Ky. there was a daughter, Alene b. 1903, in Kentucky.

The currently available information fits both women about equally well.

See the following link for a detailed history of the hospital where Aleine spent the last 12-15 yr of her life and the rather cavalier manner in which the hospital disposed of the remains of their deceased patients:

www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Eastern_State_Hospital_Lexington

Buried:
Grave location:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=WALT&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=19&GScntry=4&GSsr=201&GRid=52821897&

Died:
Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000
Name: Aleine Walters
Death Date: 17 Aug 1942
Death Place: Fayette
Age: 39
Residence: Morgan
Volume: 36
Certificate: 17651