While researching your family tree have you found any “forgotten” relatives tucked away in insane asylums? I found one. My maternal Great Aunt, Lillian Schletter. Sometime between 1905 and 1920 Lillian “went after her brother with a kitchen knife.” And that’s the end of the details. Her brother, my maternal Grandfather George Schletter, did visit her after her incarceration. But certainly nothing was spoken of Lillian, at least not to any of the younger family. And now anyone with any possible memories of her are gone. Lillian D. Schletter was committed to what was at times the largest psychiatric hospital in the United States, Kings Park Psychiatric Center, in Kings Park, New York. After being an inmate for at least 47 years, she died there in July 1967.