Memorial Ministry for Indigent Persons records
Abstract
Clippings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and programs of an organization started in 1984 by W. Earl Lewis, a Roman Catholic layperson, to establish an annual interfaith memorial service for those who died poor and alone. Records document Lewis' struggle for support prior to the first service in 1986, and contain information about 1995 heat-related deaths, pauper burials at Homewood Memorial Gardens, and mass burials at the former site of the Dunning State Mental Hospital and poor farm.
Dates
- Creation: 1984-1997
Creator
- Memorial Ministry for Indigent Persons (Organization)
Language
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research: a printed inventory is available in the library's Modern Manuscript Collections notebooks.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Physical Location
1 26 3
Source
- Lewis, W. Earl (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Memorial Ministry for Indigent Persons records, 1984-1997
- Status
- Unverified Partial Draft
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
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