“… after living in the hospital for about 12 years…” ~ Wilfred Gayleard

There is a letter I have that has Mary Ann Gayleard, Aunt Polly, writing to my great grandfather and father about my aunt’s upcoming birth. In it she says how excited her father would be to have her named after his favorite and only sister, Sarah. So this gave me another branch of the tree to focus on. As on the other page Sarah is born and baptized in 1815.

A medical certificate filled out shows she went into the Hospital as a patient due to mental health issues caused from the death of her…

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