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Memorial wall to honor 1700 previous unnamed people who died at Crownsville hospital
Apr 29, 2022 and last updated 12:51 AM, Apr 30, 2022
Crownsville Hospital has a long history.
Many of those who stayed there died and were buried without ever being named.
This weekend, a memorial wall will be placed on the grounds of that hospital with 1700 names that took years to compile.
A historian, Janice Hayes-Williams, made it her mission to decade those people decades after they died, at Crownsville State Hospital.
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The hospital was established in 1911.
As it grew, it became a place for experimenting with new therapies and treatments.
When patients without families died, they were buried on the hospital’s grounds.
Most patients did not have families, and because of medical privacy laws, they couldn't put the names on the markers so, they used numbers
<This is an example.
1381 Unknown - Find a Grave Memorial>
And they're all just lined up in a row. Yeah, they're everywhere,” Hayes-Williams said. “Once upon a time, they were all standing. There was one standing up until two years ago.”
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Finding the names of 1700 people who passed decades ago is a monumental task.
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Hayes-Williams and her team went through every year from 1912 to 1968.That's 672 months of records.
“It's taken years and we've found every single name that said Crownsville Hospital buried,” Hayes-Williams said. “Even though we only see a few, we go by the records. That's how we know who's here."
Knowing this, what is it about this 3 unidentified persons? Were they somewhere else at the hospital grounds and not in the cemetery? Were they identified and they forgot to close the Namus files?
Apr 29, 2022 and last updated 12:51 AM, Apr 30, 2022
Crownsville Hospital has a long history.
Many of those who stayed there died and were buried without ever being named.
This weekend, a memorial wall will be placed on the grounds of that hospital with 1700 names that took years to compile.
A historian, Janice Hayes-Williams, made it her mission to decade those people decades after they died, at Crownsville State Hospital.
<snipped>
The hospital was established in 1911.
As it grew, it became a place for experimenting with new therapies and treatments.
When patients without families died, they were buried on the hospital’s grounds.
Most patients did not have families, and because of medical privacy laws, they couldn't put the names on the markers so, they used numbers
<This is an example.
1381 Unknown - Find a Grave Memorial>
And they're all just lined up in a row. Yeah, they're everywhere,” Hayes-Williams said. “Once upon a time, they were all standing. There was one standing up until two years ago.”
<snipped>
Finding the names of 1700 people who passed decades ago is a monumental task.
<snipped>
Hayes-Williams and her team went through every year from 1912 to 1968.That's 672 months of records.
“It's taken years and we've found every single name that said Crownsville Hospital buried,” Hayes-Williams said. “Even though we only see a few, we go by the records. That's how we know who's here."
Knowing this, what is it about this 3 unidentified persons? Were they somewhere else at the hospital grounds and not in the cemetery? Were they identified and they forgot to close the Namus files?
