By Andy Rieger | For The Transcript Mar 7, 2021 Mar 7, 2021 A typical bedroom inside one unit in Griffin Memorial Hospital is shown. In this case, only one bed is occupied. Transcript File Photo Seventy-eight Oklahomans living at the Oaklawn Retreat in Jacksonville, Ill., boarded a train one day in 1895. They were headed back to their home state, the young prairie town of Norman, and the new private sanitarium that would care for them. The first patient, a woman from Woodward County, was admitted on June 15, 1895. That was the beginning of what is now known as Griffin Memorial Hospital, on the cityâs near east side.