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The lore of Rhoda Derry is tragic and disturbing. Her reality was worse. A young beauty, she supposedly lost her mind to love. According to sensational headlines, the mother of her betrothed objected to the romance and cast a bewitching curse that pushed Derry into decades of tormenting madness.
Aug 12, 2012 · Rhoda Derry, the daughter of Jacob and Rachel Derry of Lima Township, was admitted to the almshouse on Sept. 3, 1860. This came after a short stay at the Jacksonville Mental Hospital where she was deemed incurable and sent home.
Sep 27, 2016 · Lost in the shadows of Illinois asylums in the nineteenth century is the strange story of Rhoda Derry. Left at the Adams County Poor Farm when her family could no longer care for her, she spent the next 40 years confined in a wooden box.
- Sylvia Shults
Oct 10, 2016 · Rhoda was the youngest of the Derry family and was courted by Charles Phenix, the son of a prosperous farming family, for about two years. While Charles is set on marrying Rhoda, his mother interferes, forcing them to break up and placing a curse on Rhoda in the process.
Jan 30, 2021 · Rhoda Derry And The Mistreatment & Misunderstanding Of The Mentally Ill. Derry’s age at death varies from source to source, listed between 68 to 72. She had been a “robust young woman” until she was 23 when her mental condition deteriorated rapidly, either by “some hereditary taint in her blood, some remote disorder transmitted by some ...
Apr 14, 2011 · Rhoda Derry was very influential in the Illinois Mental Health Community at the beginning of the twentieth century. Her case brought about sweeping changes to the housing and treatment of patients in mental institutions and led to the closing of many Alms Houses throughout the state of Illinois.
Aug 10, 2012 · Committed to the Adams County Almshouse from 1860 to 1904, Rhoda Derry scratched out her own eyes, punched out her own teeth, and ate anything she could get her hands on.
This film chronicles the true story of Rhoda Derry, a severely mentally ill woman who spent 43 years of her life trapped in a box at the Adams County Alms House. Finally, in 1904, she was ...
Jan 17, 2023 · We talk with the legendary shoeshine man of Peoria about his long-lasting career. We explore the tragic tale of Rhoda Derry, who spent her life struggling with mental health and the shocking ...
Oct 10, 2016 · As Shults began researching the life of Rhoda Derry, she uncovered a story of sadness and suffering, of deep and unresolved mental illness. And it all started when 16-year old Rhoda Derry fell in love with the boy-next-door, Charles Phoenix.
