or they considered the asylum their home. For some the cost of transporting remains home by train or wagon may have been prohibitive, the asylum's catchment area being the entire western end of North Carolina, reaching high into the mountains and to the borders of Virginia, Tennessee and South Carolina. It was not often, as many choose to assume, a matter of abandonment, that led people to be buried in an asylum cemetery but expediency, the wishes of the patient and his/her family and the graces and attentions of the asylum staff who in many instances had known and cared for that person for many years.(Presentation at Broughton Hospital on cemetery research, Suzannah K McCuen, MD) References External links https://www.kxly.com/jail-roster-lists-those-arrested-near-coeur-dalene-pride-event/ North Carolina Health and Human Services History of Broughton Hospital Rootsweb entry Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Hospital buildings completed in 1883 Psychiatric hospitals in North Carolina Kirkbride Plan hospitals Hospitals established in 1883 Buildings and structures in Burke County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Burke County, North Carolina