Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Euphemia Helen Brown II |
Born |
1831 |
Deceased |
1891 |
Notes |
Euphemia was the first child of Orlando Brown and Mary Watts Brown. When she was an infant she was dangerously ill with scarlet fever. The illness was the probable cause of mental deficiency, Euphemia made no effort to talk until 1834. Margaretta said she was "very backward in her speech." As a child she called herself "Peemie." She was sent to live with a minister in Cincinnati and then to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Covington, KY. Sadly, she spent over half of her life institutionalized. She died of pneumonia at a Covington hospital intended for orphans, the poor, the elderly, and those with nowhere else to turn. |
