Hayden and Bonham

The death certificate for Eleanor only lists a birth year, no day or month.

The death certificate only states that Eleanor died from "exhaustion due to mental excitement".
This, at one time, was a fairly common diagnosis in mental patients. An explanation of the
malady can be found at http://www.exciteddelirium.org

From the exciteddelirium.org web page, History of Excited Delirium;

"In 1849, Dr. Luther Bell first described a "disease" resembling some advanced stage of
mania and fever, distinguished as an overlooked and often unrecorded malady (Bell, 1849).
This “exhaustive mania” was described in 40 cases by Dr. Bell where “exhaustion due to mental
excitement” caused three quarters of these patients to die."

Eleanor is presumably buried in the Geiger Ave. Cemetery as this cemetery was used for the
interment of white patients of the SC State Hospital from 1827 to 1954.

My Mother said that her Mother, Lela Reeves Bailey, Aunt to Eleanor, told her that James
and Lula, Eleanor's parents, did not find out about Eleanor's death for months after she had
died at the state hospital and had no money or means of transportation to go to Columbia
SC when they did find out.