more years." In the meantime, in 1869, Orange Maria, who had
also been an Elder Sister/ drowned herself in the pond about 4
a.m.. The verdict of the coroner's jury was "death by drowning
in a fit of insanity."
The Ministry Journal, after recording Orange Maria's death, com-
ments "she is of a large family, all of whom were insane and, of
five now dead, not one of them died a natural death."

There was also trouble with some members of the Train family.
David Sr. came in 1802 with his family. He is recorded as having
a bad fall downstairs in 1822 when he was 73 years old but he is
not in the cemetery. Hannah, who presumably was his wife, and
their daughter, Mary, "were rejected" on 1827 and she set off for
Albany. However she was back at the West Family two years later
and died in 1842 at the age of 86. A daughter, Elizabeth, taken
ill in 1816, "appears insane." In 1835, having been "deranged
for several days," in the evening "jumped off the roof of the
porch and went to the Meeting House and made a good deal of
disturbance." How they handled her is not indicated, but in 1856
she moved to the North Family to be in charge of the girls, so
she must have recovered. She died in 1865, apparently of cancer
of the stomach, and her coffin had glass in it "so anyone could
see the head and shoulders; it is the first one ever made so
here." Another sister, Azuba, first had problems in August 1839
when the Lebanon Ministry Journal says "Azuba became insane &
made so much disturbance that they confined her to the 2d House
garret. I believe this is her first turn of derangement although
it is prevalent in her father's family." In 1852 she was in a
group that visited the Shaker societies in Lebanon, Hancock and
Tyringham so her illness was not continuous. In October 1856 she
was "taken to the 2d house (used as an infirmary) for safe-
keeping. She is raving crazy." She died very quietly in July
1857 at the age of 61. The father, Reuben, came in January 1840
to see his children, and Lebanon Elder Amos Stewart comments that
he "appears somewhat deranged...He has lost a handsome estate
since he left Believers and is now destitute and dirty insomuch
that our folks had to lend him clothes to wear while they could
wash and mend his. Nor is this all his misfortune; his son
Statia, who followed his father's bad example, put a period to
his life in hopes of getting out of his troubles."

Another sister, Mary, and a brother, Oliver, came and went from
the Shakers during the 1820s and early 1830s. On December 30,
1829 the Ministry Journal records that "Oliver Train has been
ugly & rebellious a long time & now is as crazy as a bear. Last
night, near midnight, he run away through the mud as far as the
Patterson place, screeming[sic]along, left his footriging[sic] in