Butts County GaArchives News.....Mrs. Sarah C. Pulliam – Lunacy April 1883
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of April 18, 1883
The saddest case of lunacy that has come under our knowledge recently is that 
of Mrs. Sarah C. Pulliam, near Worthville in this county.  A few days ago she 
began to show signs of a weak mind, and in a few days she became a raging 
maniac.  Her neighbors saw that something should be done, and at once brought 
the case before the Ordinary who appointed a board of commissioners before whom 
she was tried and adjudged a lunatic and immediately sent to the asylum.  Mrs. 
P. is a young woman, with three small children; the smallest is only about five 
weeks old.  She leaves these little ones and a young husband, without any means 
of support but his daily labor.  The cause of her trouble is attributed to a 
hurt she received in childhood.  Tis sad indeed that this young wife and loving 
mother should become so crazed a to not even notice her little darlings, but 
such is the working of a divine Providence.  We trust that the tender care that 
will be taken of her at the asylum will speedily restore her to a sound mind 
and return her to her home. 



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