Individual Details

Eli Walters was guardian of the lunatic, Francis M. Carsey, at the time of Walters' death in 1861. Walters' estate papers detail the condition of Carsey and that he was institutionalized at the Asylum.

In 1850, Francis, age 15, was living with Eli and his sister Elizabeth.

In 1860, in Nashville, Davidson, TN, 5th Dist, Hh 565 which begins with a Physician, Wm. A. Cheatham:
F. M. Carsey, 1858 [probably date of admittance], age 29, Labourer, b. TN, "Hereditary"
Doctors and employees are listed first - then the inmates are listed more or less in alphabetical order. Written in the margin on p. 76 is "Tennessee Hospital for the Insane". Then there seems to be a cause written in column 14 for all the inmates.

From Wikipedia:
The Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute, originally known as the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane and later as the Central State Hospital for the Insane, is a psychiatric hospital located in Nashville, Tennessee.
After visiting Tennessee's first mental health facility, the Tennessee Lunatic Asylum, in November 1847, Dorothea Dix urged the state legislature to replace the unfit facility. The new facility, named Central State Hospital for the Insane, opened in 1852 in southeast Nashville, Tennessee on the southwest corner of Murfreesboro Road and Donelson Pike.
In 1963, the Tennessee Neuropsychiatric Institute was formed by Vanderbilt University and its research facility was located at Central State.
In 1995, the hospital moved to new facilities on Stewarts Ferry Pike. The original hospital buildings were demolished in 1999 to make way for Dell to build a large computer assembly plant.

Miscellaneous receipts are in the estate file of Eli Walters. This one is noted:
Recd of Mary E. Walters administratrix of E. A. Walters Estate Sixty Seven dollars Clothing and Expenses paid for F. M. Carsey to the asylum. June the 1st 1866. J. M. Carsey

Birth

1835

Williamson County, Tennessee

Father	Thomas P. Carsey ( - 1836)
Mother	Sarah [Carsey] (1789 - 1848)
Sibling	Martha L. Carsey (1822 - 1859)
Sibling	Sarah A. Carsey (1816 - )
Sibling	Thomas P. Carsey (1819 - )
Sibling	Mary Elizabeth Carsey (1818 - 1899)
Sibling	James M. Carsey ( - )
Sibling	William H. Carsey ( - 1844)
Sibling	Isadora M. Carsey (1830 - )