<DIV>Would this include people who were committed to the Hawthorne Insane Asylum? I have been trying to locate the remains/cremains of my gr-gr-grandmother who was there in 1901 and subsequently died there. How do I find specific information?</DIV>
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<DIV>Leigh<BR><BR><B><I>Layne G SAWYER <Layne.G.Sawyer@state.or.us></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dear OR-Rooters,<BR><BR>Those of you living in Oregon may have seen the recent articles in the<BR>Statesman and Oregonian about the State Hospital and the efforts to find<BR>appropriate resting places for several hundred unclaimed and unknown<BR>remains.<BR><BR>Below is a link to a news article that appeared in the Washington<BR>Times. <BR><BR>http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050312-115118-2503r.htm <BR><BR>Senator Peter Courtney's staff are working with some volunteer<BR>genealogists to research some of these individuals. I thought some<BR>folks on this list might also be interested in helping with this effort.<BR><BR><BR>The State Archives has death registers for the state hospital. Two of<BR>the volumes have been indexed and are available on our Historical<BR>Records Index, however the last volume spanning the dates 1936-1959 was<BR>not extracted due to lack of resources at
the time. The senator's staff<BR>was hoping there might be some volunteers willing to come to the<BR>Archives and extract the information from this last volume. <BR><BR>If you are interested in assisting in this effort please feel free to<BR>contact Tanya Gross at the following e-mail.<BR><BR>Tanya.M.Gross@state.or.us <BR><BR>Also getting the word out to people who may be descendants of these<BR>individuals is another reason for posting to this list serve.<BR><BR>I know this group has been very generous in their assistance to one<BR>another in the past so I thought some of you might also find this effort<BR>an interesting challenge.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Layne Sawyer<BR>"List Mom"<BR>Oregon State Archives<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots mailing list<BR>or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us<BR>http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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