Was My Ancestor Alexander Scott Causey Insane?

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This is a most curious entry for  my Great (4) Grandfather Alexander Scott Causey in the 1860 Census. He is located at the bottom and the Census person has noted on the side that he was "crazy". There is another notation  there that is hard to read but appears  say "caused by concussion". So did he go insane? Was this insanity by by a blow to the head? Was it temporary or sadly permanent? Dis his wife Nancy "Cox" Causey basically have to run the household?

I would love to find out more on this. At one point some Causey researcher , whom I can't recall, told me he THOUGHT there was court record in Amite in which he was declared insane of incompetent. My memory though could be faulty on this and I really need to get to Amite to look myself.

That would quite a story. My Great (4) Grandmother Nancy " Cox " Cause dealing with a crazy husband on the eve of the Civil War in which her sons are about to go off to war in. Sadly it was not too long after this census was taken that Alexander Scott died. I have a date of death of July 8 th 1860. ( I am trying to poin down why this DODis used.  If that DOD is true he died just days after this census was taken.

The fact that Causey was "crazy" and days later died and with the added notation there makes it likely this might have been a recent condition. Still that is a odd notation to put down if not to try to give some indication that perhaps Nancy Cox was the "actual" head oc household.

I will be touching more on the this family in the next post.