Grayson County Poor Farm
On one of these inspections, Edna came across the Grayson County Poor Farm, which was little more than a dumping ground for the unwanted-poor, insane, handicapped, and children. She enlisted the other Civil League ladies to help her, and wrote a contemptuous article in the local paper. The Civic League had a meeting with the Grayson County Commissioners Court, the local governing body and owners of the Poor Farm, where they declared it everyone’s responsibility to care for the children at the farm. Impatient to wait for action, the ladies, led by Gladney, went to the farm and personally cleaned and white-washed it. Gladney then arranged the transfer of the children to the Texas Children’s Home and Aid Society run by Reverend I. Z. T. Morris.
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