next day." They now spent several days looking for him and at
meeting on the Sabbath asked the world's people to let them know
if they heard anything. But 10 days later they heard of a man's
body floating in the river near Cohoes so the West Family Elder
went and identified it as Edward from a handkerchief in his
pocket. I suppose the Cohoes authorities buried him in their
common cemetery. In December five brethren went to Cohoes to dig
Edward up to bury him in the Shaker cemetery.. However, the body
"was so decomposed and smelt so badly, they returned horn without
accomplishing their object." But there is a headstone for him in
the Shaker cemetery, aged 72.

They must have finished a place to keep mentally disturbed
people, above termed a "coop" because in 1877, when the Lebanon
Ministry were on one of their regular visits and doing various
chores about the village, it is recorded that Elder Daniel Boler
"is laying over the floor in the south end of Insane Asylum" and
in August 1881 he was shingling the "insane hospital."

Elizabeth Youngs came to the Shakers in 1793 when she was 11
years old, the daughter of Benjamin Youngs, the clockmaker. She
was the eldress at the South Family from 1822-1827 and 1830-1839.
In October of 1839, Ministry Elder Rufus, in the midst of the
visions and spiritual messages being received at Watervliet,
recorded that Eldress Elizabeth "was brought upon her knees where
she delivered a lengthy discourse but, owing to the rustling of
the spectators, I could understand but a small portion." In
1860 February, when she would have been 78, she "was found out on
the ice of the mill pond with the intention of destroying
herself. She is, and has been of late, somewhat deranged and has
some strange ideas." She died in 1865 at the age of 82 after
having two or more "paralytic shocks" and "has been of late
somewhat insane."

Thomas Beal, a widower, joined at Watervliet in 1847 when he was
40 years old. He served a long and fruitful existence, from 1860
to 1892 at the North Family. In 1892 that family had become so
small that it was decided to move its remaining members to the
Church Family and make the empty buildings available for the
Shakers from Groveland, which was to close completely. In
August, Thomas, now aged 84, suffering from kidney stones and no
doubt depressed about having to move from his long-time
home, drowned himself in the quarry on the North Family grounds.

Jonathan Slosson came to the Shakers in 1780 and so was con-
sidered one of the "first born", that is, those who had seen
Mother Ann when she was alive. He was already a veteran of the