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INDIVIDUAL NOTES:
1880 Linn County, Kansas census (microfilm):
- HH 16, Valley Township
- Age 40, married to John Brockett
- Born in Kentucky, father in Kentucky, mother in Kentucky
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Sarah Catherine Duvall/Gray likely had Huntington's Disease. This is a hereditary disease that is passed on from one of the parents. She died in 1890 at the age of 50 in the State Hospital located in Shawnee County, Kansas. She is buried in the Topeka State Cemetery. I believe she unknowingly passed the disease on to at least three of her children (Richard Columbus, Dora Ellen and Black).
Sarah Catherine had 5 known children with her husband John "Jack" Brockett. They were Richard Columbus (1862 - ????), Dora Ellen (1865-1915), Black (1866-1913), White (1865-1933) and Frederick Wesley (1869-1956).
Description and Symptoms of Huntington's Disease:
Early symptoms of Huntington's Disease may affect cognitive ability or mobility and include depression, mood swings, forgetfulness, clumsiness, involuntary twitching and lack of coordination. As the disease progresses, concentration and short-term memory diminish and involuntary movements of the head, trunk and limbs increase. Walking, speaking and swallowing abilities deteriorate. Eventually the person is unable to care for him or herself. Death follows from complications such as choking, infection or heart failure.
Huntington's Disease typically begins in mid-life, between the ages of 30 and 50, though onset may occur as early as the age of two. Children who develop the juvenile form of the disease rarely live to adulthood.
Huntington's Disease affects males and females equally and crosses all ethnic and racial boundaries. Each child of a person with HD has a 50/50 chance of inheriting the fatal gene. Everyone who carries the gene will develop the disease.
Huntington's Disease does not "skip" generations.
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