1860 Oct 26, Charles Alexander Waymire was born in Jasper Co., IN
1870 Census: On July 28, 1870, Living in Mill Creek, Fountain Co., IN
1879 Jan 14, Charles Alexander Waymire married Fannie Keller in Fountain Co., IN
1880 Census: On June 15, 1880, Living in Jamestown, Boone Co., IN
1900 Census: On June 06, 1900, Living in Township 4, Jefferson Co., MT
1903 July 31, Alexander Waymire died in Warm Springs, Deer Lodge Co., MT - Age: 42 years, 9 months, 5 days
1910 Census: On April 28, 1910, Living in Helena, Lewis and Clark Co., MT
1913, Fannie E. Waymire died in Warm Springs, Deer Lodge Co., MT
Burial:: Boulder Cemetery, Boulder, Jefferson Co., MT
NOTE: See find a grave for headstones
NOTE: Son of Jacob Waymire and Elizabeth Lovejoy
NOTE: On the 1880 census he has a daughter Claudia who I believe is Claud O. Waymire a son on the 1900 census living close by his father.
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The Anaconda Standard - Anaconda, Montana - Thursday, August 30, 1900
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CIRCUS DROVE HIM CRAZY
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Waymire Was Queer Before, but Elephant Finished Him
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR

Had a "Token" That There Is No More Ore in the Butte Hills and That Some Day He Will Own Great Northern

Alexander Waymire, until recently a section foreman on the Great Northern at Wickes, was examined yesterday by a commission of doctors in Judge Clancy's court and was ordered committed to the asylum. Waymire is suffering from many happy delusions of the brain and during his examination yesterday he kept the court, the doctors and many spectators laughing in spite of the pitiful spectacle the demented man presented.

The doctors who conducted the examination were Sullivan and Leggat, and a number of the physicians who are in the city attending the Rocky Mountain Medical association were witnesses and spectators. Judge Clancy read to Waymire the complaint which County Physician Sheeran had made against him and then asked him what he had to say to it.

Well, judge, I was guilty all right at the time, replied Waymire, with a laugh, "and I guess I must have been insane at the time. My mind is insane on one thing and all right on another. When I struck that policeman I knew there was something wrong.

How are you now -- crazy or not? asked the judge, and the demented man, as well as the spectators, laughed.

Yes, judge, I am crazy all right. My mind is between me and heaven, said Waymire.

Dr Sheeran testified that he first saw the man in the county jail on the 24th of the month, after he had been arrested, and since then he has been very violent and destructive. The doctor said the man was suffering from acute mania and was dangerous to be at large. The witness had learned that Waymire was born in Indiana and was about 40 years of age. His home is in Jefferson County and for some time he has been a section foreman on the Great Northern at Wickes. He came to Butte with his family to see the circus on the 23rd, and that night or the next day he was arrested for insanity.

Mrs. Waymire testified that her husband had been a little queer for a week or so before they came to Butte. He was in better humor than before and talked constantly. He bragged about his work on the section and about a mine in which he was interested. He carried a piece of ore about with him and talked about it all the time.

The demented man's son also testified to the same effect, and then the doctors questioned Waymire himself. He wanted to tell them all about it and how he behaved himself in Butte after he realized that he was crazy. He said he had some trouble with a policeman and was laying it off to him." when the policeman jumped three feet in the air.

I told him he was a fool and that I would not hurt him. I then began to realize that there was something wrong and when I was taken to the dungeon a token came to me.

What was that token? asked one of the doctors.

Well, I was told that there was no more ore in the Anaconda hill. I came to Butte with my little ones to see the show and I put up with my old friend Jefferson, where I am always welcome whether I have anything or not.

After the circus, said Waymire, he came up town to have a good time on $10 his wife had given him and he went into several places, including a dance hall, where he met a very pretty girl.

I can appreciate a pretty woman as well as any man, he said, and so can you, you rascal, he added, addressing one of the doctors. That high forehead back of your ears shows that.

He told about his mine, the Jay Bird, in Jefferson County, and said he had enough money to buy a half interest in the Great Northern railroad. The president of that road is his friend and some day he will hold all the offices in the company.

I have millions in my mind, he said, but it is all in my mind. A man in Boulder asked a friend of mine if I was not nutty, but my friend told him he ought to see me some time when I was acting real crazy.

When you came to town you had money enough to buy the circus, didn't you? asked Dr. Leggat.

Well, I didn't think much about that.

Did you see the elephant? asked Judge Clancy.

Waymire was convulsed with laughter by the question and the recollections of the circus.

Yes, I saw the elephant, he said, after he had recovered. I saw him standing on his head and on his tail. My wife told me if I didn't stop laughing people would think I was crazy.

Dr. Hopkins of Denver, a specialist on nervous diseases, made an examination of Waymire and pronounced his case one of paretic dementia.
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