Joanna Augusta

Joanna was a Papago (Tohono O'Odham in 1986) woman

Biography:

The Sells District, established 1911 by William Howard Taft including one at Sells, Arizona

An early 20th century photo of the Center Building at St. Elizabeths, one of the oldest structures on the hospital campus (Source: Wikipedia contributors. "St. Elizabeths Hospital." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 3 Nov. 2023. Web. 11 Nov. 2023.)

Joanna's death was reported in The Evening Star on August 2

Noyes, Theodore W, editor. “Deaths Reported.” The Evening Star, 2 Aug. 1935, pp. A9-30.

Research Notes:
-admitted to he Canton Asylum for Insane Indians on July 9, 1920, fromteh Selld Agency diagnosed with senile psychosis, revised to dementia praecox. In 1920 she would have been only 53 years old.
-63 in the 1930 census = born c. 1867, widowed, full-blood, inmate
-was transferred from the Hiawatha Indian Asylum, in Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, to Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, in Washington Dec 1933 at age 68, where she died July 24, 1935 at the age of 70, buried in the St. Elizabeth hospital cemetery (east)
-Legacy NFS Source: Joanna Augusta - Government record: (?)
birth-name: Joanna Augusta
female
birth: after 1865;
death: 24 July 1935; Washington, District of Columbia, United States
-Joanna Augusta 1865 – 24 July 1935 in Family Search is indicated with "no relationships". There is also an indication that there are six females born in AZ at or near that time with the name Joanna, 3 Apache, and 3 Yavapai...

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1921 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68Z4-CZQN : Sat Oct 07 00:06:25 UTC 2023), Entry for Joanna Agusta, 1921, pg. 509/522, line 1, Female census, United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, Canton Asylum, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1924 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68Z4-F7BC : Thu Oct 05 15:02:00 UTC 2023), Entry for Joanna Agusta, 1924, pg. 516/522, line 1, Sells Reservation, Female census, United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, Canton Asylum, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1925 - "South Dakota State Census, 1925", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMWL-68S : Thu Oct 05 09:47:44 UTC 2023), Entry for Joanna Agusta, 1925, pg. 198/3399, card #673, 1925 South Dakota census, Canton Township, Lincoln County

1930 Apr 7 - "United States Census, 1930", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQVC-BMP : Tue Oct 03 01:17:06 UTC 2023), Entry for Joanna Agusta, 1930, pg. 610/1062, line 42, Asylum for Insane Indians, Canton Township, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1935 Jul 24 - Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126674437/joanna-augusta: accessed 11 November 2023), memorial page for Joanna Augusta (1865–24 Jul 1935), Find a Grave Memorial ID 126674437, citing Saint Elizabeths Hospital West Cemetery, Anacostia, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA; Maintained by Cathy Porter-Maynard (contributor 47009361).