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into the woods where the brethren caught him. Finally at the end
of March he again went to the world "crazy, last night."

In 1859 they went to West Troy (now Watervliet) to see the
poormaster about George Haney "who is crazy" and the next day two
brethren took him to the county poorhouse.

And, in 1880, Ann Durand, who had been them a few months was
"taken deranged." They had a doctor to see her, and he must have
given them an unsatisfactory verdict because the next day she was
taken to Troy, probably to her family.

Bethuel Shout, aged about 17, came in April 1854 to the South
Family to join, but about a week later drowned himself in their
upper pond. Coroner's verdict was cause unknown.

One of the saddest cases involves Alexander Youngs (not related
to the other Youngs as far as we know}. He had been in the
Shakers for a number of years for he had risen to be the Trustee
of the West Family. On October 29, 1872 the Family's barns were
set afire with the loss of their great hay barn and its contents
and their wagon house. The cattle were saved but they had no
housing or food for the winter. The other families gave
immediate assistance but the disaster overwhelmed Alexander and
by December 14 the Ministry was advised that he was "crazy." He
had put a down payment on a farm that "is worthless almost
entirely," and purchased a large quantity of wet corn from barges
sunk in the Canal. By December 23, when both Elder Daniel Boler
and Giles Avery were at Watervliet to help, he is noted as being
"entirely disabled in every way and requires several men to
attend to him to keep him from destroying himself and others.
His business is also very much deranged and some successor must
be immediately appointed." On December 25th, he is "so raving it
requires three men to hold him." On December 29th he died. He
is not recorded as being in the Shaker cemetery.

Samuel Gould came to the Shakers in July 1876 from Troy, N.Y.
with his wife, Margaret, and two boys aged 5 and 3, as a hired
man and was housed in half of a new tenant house built by the
South Family on Sand Creek Road. By September 1877 he was
speaking in public meeting and the Elders apparently believed he
was sincerely espousing the Shaker faith. Therefore they sent
his wife and the younger boy to live at the North Family, and
Samuel and the other boy moved into the South Family. However 7
months later in April 1878, Samuel and his family moved back to
Troy, Margaret and her son having proved "very troublesome" at
the North Family. Samuel then tried to get a separation from his