Sarah Fatiner Stone (abt. 1863 - 1948)

Born about 1863 in Lincoln County, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Died 27 Mar 1948 at about age 85 in Baldwin County, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Sarah (Sallie) Fatiner Stone was born about 1863 in Lincoln County, Georgia. Sallie was the daughter of Jesse David Stone and Sarah Elizabeth Clary.

Sarah appears in the 1870 and 1880 Federal census' in Lincoln County, Georgia, in the household of her father.^[1]

Sarah was committed to the Georgia State Sanitarium (now known as Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, GA) on the 4th of March, 1900, and appears in the 1900 through 1940 Federal census' as an inmate in the Sanitarium. ^[2]

Sarah died on the 27th of March 1948, while still confined at the Georgia State Sanitarium. Articles that appeared in the Atlanta Magazine (http://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/asylum-inside-central-state-hospital-worlds-largest-mental-institution/) and The Moonlit Road (http://themoonlitroad.com/central-state-hospital-milledgeville-georgia/) state that in 1960 the groundskeepers tossed thousands of grave markers into the woods to make mowing easier, thus leaving the graves forever unmarked. These markers marked the graves of the thousands of patients who had died at the Sanitarium and were buried on the grounds.

Sources

1. ↑ 1880 Federal Census Lincoln County, Georgia, household of Jesse D. Stone. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9 Roll 155 page 151B, Enumeration District 069
2. ↑ Sallie F. Stone - Lunacy Record Book 50, page 5; Lincoln County, Georgia courthouse, Lincolnton, GA.

• 1900 Federal Census Baldwin County, Georgia, Georgia State Sanitarium. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623 Roll 178 page 2A, Enumeration District 0008.

• 1910 Federal Census Baldwin County, Georgia, Georgia State Sanitarium. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624 Roll 170 page 9B, Enumeration District 0009.

• 1920 Federal Census Baldwin County, Georgia, Georgia State Sanitarium. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625 Roll 223 page 35B, Enumeration District 0009.

• 1930 Federal Census Baldwin County, Georgia, Georgia State Sanitarium. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626 Roll 336 page 52A, Enumeration District 0011.

• 1940 Federal Census Baldwin County, Georgia, Georgia State Sanitarium. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T627 Roll 637 page 90A, Enumeration District 5-12.

• Death date: Georgia, Death Index, 1919-1998 [database on-line Ancestry.com; and Original data: State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998. Georgia, USA: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, 1998.

• Article on Georgia State Sanitarium from: Atlanta Magazine (http://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/asylum-inside-central-state-hospital-worlds-largest-mental-institution/)

• Articles on Georgia State Sanitarium from: The Moonlit Road (http://themoonlitroad.com/central-state-hospital-milledgeville-georgia/)