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About Charles LaComte
The bottom line is: I'm not sure who this guy is as he does not identify in any of the usual sources.
Charles LeComte, whom I believe is Chippewa, but I reviewed all the census reports from 1930 for the many various Chippewa tribes/bands for which a census was performed, and I can't find him in a census, so I can't say for sure. I searched FaG and don't find him there. He is NOT listed in Canton tables 7 & 8 which identify patients 1903-1910, and he is NOT included in any Canton Asylum census 1910-1933, so NOT on any Canton census anywhere! He was NOT buried in the Hiawatha Cemetery.
Here is the confusing part: He is listed in a Table of those Native Americans buried in the St. Elizabeth East Campus Cemetery, but his name is NOT on the list of patients transferred from Canton to St. Elizabeth when it closed in December 1933, he supposedly died two years after Canton closed, so I don't know how he got to St. Elizabeth if he was there. Carla Joinson has no death date but the table from the Keepers says he died February 4, 1935, (with no documentation!). The table referenced above shows him buried on February 7, 1935, so these dates might be correct.
CJ only says he died of multiple sclerosis but I don't know how she knows that, I've not come across any paperwork between Dr. Hummer and the BIA that says how he was diagnosed, and she doesn't source the diagnosis.
Ledger page 65: LaComte, Charles shows Charles LaComte buried in the St. Elizabeth East Campus Cemetery, BUT Charles LaComte is NOT listed as one transferred from the Canton Asylum to St. Elizabeth Hospital.
Source: Joinson, Carla. Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians. University of Nebraska Press, 2016, pg. 345-347 Appendix C "Patients Transferred to St. Elizabeth
Table 2 provides a corrected list of the Native American burials.
Source: Saint Elizabeths Hospital Cemetery Restoration Project, Trinkley, M., Hacker, D. Southerland, N., PRESERVATION ASSESSMENT OF ST. ELIZABETHS EAST CAMPUS CEMETERY, WASHINGTON, DC 1–102 (2009). Columbia, SC; Chicora Foundation, Inc. https://chicora.org/pdfs/RC514.pdf
Charles LaComte's Timeline
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February 5, 1935
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February 7, 1935
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St. Elizabeth's Hospital, East Campus Cemetery, Grave 29-1-150A, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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