Andrew Grayson Bloxton, age 84, was an inpatient of Western State Hospital, outside city limits of Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, at the end of his life. It is not known when he was admitted.
Western State Hospital's original building (which is still standing and registered as a National Historical Landmark) was opened on July 24, 1828. The first patient was admitted that morning. Shortly after the facility opened, it was filled with patients, so the Court of Directors implemented an admissions screening process to limit admissions to only those patients "who were either dangerous to society from their violence, or those who were offensive to its moral sense by their indecency and to those cases of derangement where there is reasonable ground to hope that the afflicted may be restored." The facility’s name was changed in 1894 from Western Lunatic Asylum to Western State Hospital. The facility continued to increase in size through the 1950’s and 1960’s with the opening of a second site in 1949-1950. The facility’s patient population eventually increased to above 3,000 at two sites. In 1978 the University of Virginia (UVA) expanded its affiliation with the hospital providing for joint faculty appointments and the assignment of psychiatric residents and medical students to the facility for training.
Andrew died at 4:45 am on November 8, 1978, from two weeks of uremia due to renal failure.
Contributing to death but not related to direct causes was organic brain syndrome.
Andrew's usual residence was an assisted living facility, Hughes Homes, Inc., 100 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
He never married and was a retired farmer. He never served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
"Welfare Records" were the source of information for his Death Certificate.
He lived with his widowed mother from at least July 1917 through 1940, but on his own in 1942.
Occupation: Farm Manager / Farm Laborer
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: None
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 50
1910 Census at age 14 & "Farm Laborer" for his grandparents with whom he was living w/o his remarried in 1907 mom:
Attended School: No
Able to Read: No
Able to Write: No
1900 Census at age 5 - he was also living with his maternal grandparents without his widowed mom.
I'm unable to find either Eliza or Thomas G. Lewis on the 1910 Census, but Andrew was living with Eliza from July 1917 through 1940, working as Farm Laborer/Farm Manager for her.
On his 1942 WWII Draft Registration card:
Employer: Edwin Kirk U S National Museum
Weight: 126 "slender"
Complexion: Ruddy
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Red
Height: 5' 6 - "tall"
Next of Kin: Eliza Lewis (Mother) (WWI - "farm laborer, Osso, VA"; Eliza listed as his employer)
#12 - "Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)" - he wrote "Mother solely (?) can't read...might be "supported", but he was definitely giving an exemption reason, so he was probably her sole support.
He apparently didn't care for his middle name "Grayson", because he put a big "X" on his WWI Registration card between Andrew and Bloxton, plus his death certificate listed "NMI", which wasn't true.
THE FREE LANCE-STAR, FREDERICKSBURG, SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA
August 19, 1977 (See news clipping posted here)
Western State Hospital's original building (which is still standing and registered as a National Historical Landmark) was opened on July 24, 1828. The first patient was admitted that morning. Shortly after the facility opened, it was filled with patients, so the Court of Directors implemented an admissions screening process to limit admissions to only those patients "who were either dangerous to society from their violence, or those who were offensive to its moral sense by their indecency and to those cases of derangement where there is reasonable ground to hope that the afflicted may be restored." The facility’s name was changed in 1894 from Western Lunatic Asylum to Western State Hospital. The facility continued to increase in size through the 1950’s and 1960’s with the opening of a second site in 1949-1950. The facility’s patient population eventually increased to above 3,000 at two sites. In 1978 the University of Virginia (UVA) expanded its affiliation with the hospital providing for joint faculty appointments and the assignment of psychiatric residents and medical students to the facility for training.
Andrew died at 4:45 am on November 8, 1978, from two weeks of uremia due to renal failure.
Contributing to death but not related to direct causes was organic brain syndrome.
Andrew's usual residence was an assisted living facility, Hughes Homes, Inc., 100 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
He never married and was a retired farmer. He never served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
"Welfare Records" were the source of information for his Death Certificate.
He lived with his widowed mother from at least July 1917 through 1940, but on his own in 1942.
Occupation: Farm Manager / Farm Laborer
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: None
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 50
1910 Census at age 14 & "Farm Laborer" for his grandparents with whom he was living w/o his remarried in 1907 mom:
Attended School: No
Able to Read: No
Able to Write: No
1900 Census at age 5 - he was also living with his maternal grandparents without his widowed mom.
I'm unable to find either Eliza or Thomas G. Lewis on the 1910 Census, but Andrew was living with Eliza from July 1917 through 1940, working as Farm Laborer/Farm Manager for her.
On his 1942 WWII Draft Registration card:
Employer: Edwin Kirk U S National Museum
Weight: 126 "slender"
Complexion: Ruddy
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Red
Height: 5' 6 - "tall"
Next of Kin: Eliza Lewis (Mother) (WWI - "farm laborer, Osso, VA"; Eliza listed as his employer)
#12 - "Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)" - he wrote "Mother solely (?) can't read...might be "supported", but he was definitely giving an exemption reason, so he was probably her sole support.
He apparently didn't care for his middle name "Grayson", because he put a big "X" on his WWI Registration card between Andrew and Bloxton, plus his death certificate listed "NMI", which wasn't true.
THE FREE LANCE-STAR, FREDERICKSBURG, SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA
August 19, 1977 (See news clipping posted here)
Andrew Grayson Bloxton, age 84, was an inpatient of Western State Hospital, outside city limits of Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, at the end of his life. It is not known when he was admitted.
Western State Hospital's original building (which is still standing and registered as a National Historical Landmark) was opened on July 24, 1828. The first patient was admitted that morning. Shortly after the facility opened, it was filled with patients, so the Court of Directors implemented an admissions screening process to limit admissions to only those patients "who were either dangerous to society from their violence, or those who were offensive to its moral sense by their indecency and to those cases of derangement where there is reasonable ground to hope that the afflicted may be restored." The facility’s name was changed in 1894 from Western Lunatic Asylum to Western State Hospital. The facility continued to increase in size through the 1950’s and 1960’s with the opening of a second site in 1949-1950. The facility’s patient population eventually increased to above 3,000 at two sites. In 1978 the University of Virginia (UVA) expanded its affiliation with the hospital providing for joint faculty appointments and the assignment of psychiatric residents and medical students to the facility for training.
Andrew died at 4:45 am on November 8, 1978, from two weeks of uremia due to renal failure.
Contributing to death but not related to direct causes was organic brain syndrome.
Andrew's usual residence was an assisted living facility, Hughes Homes, Inc., 100 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
He never married and was a retired farmer. He never served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
"Welfare Records" were the source of information for his Death Certificate.
He lived with his widowed mother from at least July 1917 through 1940, but on his own in 1942.
Occupation: Farm Manager / Farm Laborer
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: None
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 50
1910 Census at age 14 & "Farm Laborer" for his grandparents with whom he was living w/o his remarried in 1907 mom:
Attended School: No
Able to Read: No
Able to Write: No
1900 Census at age 5 - he was also living with his maternal grandparents without his widowed mom.
I'm unable to find either Eliza or Thomas G. Lewis on the 1910 Census, but Andrew was living with Eliza from July 1917 through 1940, working as Farm Laborer/Farm Manager for her.
On his 1942 WWII Draft Registration card:
Employer: Edwin Kirk U S National Museum
Weight: 126 "slender"
Complexion: Ruddy
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Red
Height: 5' 6 - "tall"
Next of Kin: Eliza Lewis (Mother) (WWI - "farm laborer, Osso, VA"; Eliza listed as his employer)
#12 - "Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)" - he wrote "Mother solely (?) can't read...might be "supported", but he was definitely giving an exemption reason, so he was probably her sole support.
He apparently didn't care for his middle name "Grayson", because he put a big "X" on his WWI Registration card between Andrew and Bloxton, plus his death certificate listed "NMI", which wasn't true.
THE FREE LANCE-STAR, FREDERICKSBURG, SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA
August 19, 1977 (See news clipping posted here)
Western State Hospital's original building (which is still standing and registered as a National Historical Landmark) was opened on July 24, 1828. The first patient was admitted that morning. Shortly after the facility opened, it was filled with patients, so the Court of Directors implemented an admissions screening process to limit admissions to only those patients "who were either dangerous to society from their violence, or those who were offensive to its moral sense by their indecency and to those cases of derangement where there is reasonable ground to hope that the afflicted may be restored." The facility’s name was changed in 1894 from Western Lunatic Asylum to Western State Hospital. The facility continued to increase in size through the 1950’s and 1960’s with the opening of a second site in 1949-1950. The facility’s patient population eventually increased to above 3,000 at two sites. In 1978 the University of Virginia (UVA) expanded its affiliation with the hospital providing for joint faculty appointments and the assignment of psychiatric residents and medical students to the facility for training.
Andrew died at 4:45 am on November 8, 1978, from two weeks of uremia due to renal failure.
Contributing to death but not related to direct causes was organic brain syndrome.
Andrew's usual residence was an assisted living facility, Hughes Homes, Inc., 100 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
He never married and was a retired farmer. He never served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
"Welfare Records" were the source of information for his Death Certificate.
He lived with his widowed mother from at least July 1917 through 1940, but on his own in 1942.
Occupation: Farm Manager / Farm Laborer
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: None
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 50
1910 Census at age 14 & "Farm Laborer" for his grandparents with whom he was living w/o his remarried in 1907 mom:
Attended School: No
Able to Read: No
Able to Write: No
1900 Census at age 5 - he was also living with his maternal grandparents without his widowed mom.
I'm unable to find either Eliza or Thomas G. Lewis on the 1910 Census, but Andrew was living with Eliza from July 1917 through 1940, working as Farm Laborer/Farm Manager for her.
On his 1942 WWII Draft Registration card:
Employer: Edwin Kirk U S National Museum
Weight: 126 "slender"
Complexion: Ruddy
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Red
Height: 5' 6 - "tall"
Next of Kin: Eliza Lewis (Mother) (WWI - "farm laborer, Osso, VA"; Eliza listed as his employer)
#12 - "Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)" - he wrote "Mother solely (?) can't read...might be "supported", but he was definitely giving an exemption reason, so he was probably her sole support.
He apparently didn't care for his middle name "Grayson", because he put a big "X" on his WWI Registration card between Andrew and Bloxton, plus his death certificate listed "NMI", which wasn't true.
THE FREE LANCE-STAR, FREDERICKSBURG, SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA
August 19, 1977 (See news clipping posted here)
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