My great-grandmother, Anna Heinzen Renner, was born to Peter and Elizabeth Heil Heinzen. She married Philip Renner (also Rinner) from Cincinnati. They married in Dayton (Ohio) on May 20, 1900. Philip's parents are believed to have been George Henry and Mary Wolf Renner.

Much is not known about Anna since my grandmother, Anna's daughter, was given up for adoption as a baby, as well as my grandmother's two brothers. Lucky for them, they were adopted by the same family.

What is known about Anna is that she and her husband Philip, lived together off and on, living in rentals when they were together. It is not known if they ever divorced.

Anna spent the last 17 years of her life at the Montgomery County Infirmary, which was located in Jefferson Twp. just 5 miles west of Dayton.

They called it the Infirmary. But it was also the Poor House, the County Home, and the Insane Asylum. Whatever the Infirmary was called, many of our ancestors lived there, children were abandoned there, and people died and were buried on the grounds there. Aside from the hardships and illnesses that had befallen them, they not only deserve a place in history, but they deserve a place in our hearts.

Anna's reasons for living there are not clearly known, but I feel that she had a rough life and had no other place to go although her parents and siblings lay to rest in another city cemetery in a nearby county.

The County Infirmary Cemetery is no longer active.

For those interested, there are websites devoted to this abandoned cemetery below:

http://www.graveaddiction.com/mcinfirm.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohmontgs/infirmary/infirmary.html

UPDATE: The fate of missing youngest child Leo Frank Renner is now known, thanks to a reply from a daughter of his. Unfortunately, he passed away in 1968. Frank's memorial is
Find A Grave Memorial# 81145923.

I am still trying to find the fate of her son Raymond J. Renner born June 16, 1901 and daughter Mary Jane Renner born November 7, 1903.