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knoxcotn-digest Tuesday, July 4 2000 Volume 01 : Number 106
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:47:13 -0500 From: "Poor House Lady" <phlady@jump.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Knox County POORHOUSE Information Needed Recently I published a new website called The POORHOUSE STORY at http://www.poorhousestory.com It is a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American Poorhouses. Since we announced the website on the statewide TENNESSEE e-mail list, we have received several comments and questions and have posted many of these on our page for Tennessee at http://www.poorhousestory.com/poorhouses_in_tennessee.htm Today we posted a question from a reader about a poorhouse in KNOX County. Here it is: "I know there was a poorhouse in KNOX COUNTY, Knoxville, Tennessee. My g-grand father was there from abt 1930-34. It was called 'The George Mahoney Home' in a place called Mahoneyville, Knoxville, Tennessee. I went there and a state prison is there now. I went to the McClungs Library in Knoxville and a helpful Librarian said yes, there was a place BUT no records were kept. I feel like there should have been some kind of records somewhere." daffadil@alltel.net Both Daffadil and I would love to hear from you with any further information about this poorhouse. (She because she wants to know more about her g-grandfather; and me because I would like to also see more information about your poorhouse history on The POORHOUSE STORY website.) Thanks, Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:42:27 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Knox County POORHOUSE Information Needed Hi, everybody. I'll answer what I can...too lazy to get up and get my Knox County history books to see what's there <g>. The Knox County Poor Farm/Workhouse was on the old Maloney farm on Maloneyville Road (not Mahoneyville). The Knox County Sheriff's Department maintains a long-term detention facility there (for people who're sentenced to more than a night in jail but less than a year). There is a cemetery there, and Robert McGinnis has transcribed it. Records were maintained. Sadly, no records have surfaced at this time that relate to specific individuals who lived there. The County Court Minutes have references to the home and its maintenance. I've also looked for records from the Beverly Hills Sanitarium (Knox County's TB hospital) and the Deaf-and-Dumb Asylum. I keep praying they're in SOMEONE's attic! After I get a chance to relieve my headache, I'll see what else I can dig up. Headache is from a good thing: I rescued a bushel basket of old papers, letters, negatives, pictures, etc., from a man in Unicoi County who was going to burn them. But, the environmental residue (a/k/a mold and mouse poop) are high on my allergy list....
At 04:47 PM 7/3/00 -0500, Poor House Lady wrote: >"I know there was a poorhouse in KNOX COUNTY, Knoxville, Tennessee. My >g-grand father was there from abt 1930-34. It was called 'The George >Mahoney Home' in a place called Mahoneyville, Knoxville, Tennessee. I went >there and a state prison is there now. I went to the McClungs Library in >Knoxville and a helpful Librarian said yes, there was a place BUT no records >were kept. I feel like there should have been some kind of records >somewhere." daffadil@alltel.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:21:52 EDT From: RMcgi81640@aol.com Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Knox County POORHOUSE Information Needed Hi All, Yes the George Maloney Home did exist at the Maloneyville location from about 1939 until the closing of Hillcrest Nursing Institute in 1986. Basically Knox County Pauper records policy was to destroy all records after seven years, but Some records have been spared over the years. There is an unconfirmed rumor that Hillcrest Beverly has some of the patient records but refuse to release them to the County Archives because of the Privacy Laws. I do have partial records for burials from Three seperate cemeteries which were and are located at the farm. By the way the cemeteries are not on the jail property, but on the adjoining Golf Course. And also George Maloney was not the first workhouse/Poor House, There are mentions of at least four others dating back to the 1850's. Hope this helps some one! Robert McGinnis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:41:27 -0500 From: "Pat" <pat@internetpro.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Tennessee Poorhouse & other state's For those who are interested, there's a web site that has info on Poorhouse's in several state's. The web link is.... http://poorhousestory.com/ I'm not sure though how much info. is listed for the state of TN. There's is info. about the records on that web site as well. Pat ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 11:28:58 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Knox County POORHOUSE Information Needed See? Robert does know everything about Knox County! <g> We are truly fortunate to have him as a member of our list...
At 11:21 PM 7/3/00 -0400, RMcgi81640@aol.com wrote: >Hi All, > Yes the George Maloney Home did exist at the Maloneyville location from >about 1939 until the closing of Hillcrest Nursing Institute in 1986. <snipped> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 12:10:28 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] History Buff's Auction Periodically, I find something of use to my own research here.
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