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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The Asylum Cemetery is a book published by Susan Bell in
1991.Published by the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society P.O. Cox 2083
Salem Oregon 97308</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>As my GG grandfather is buried there I hired a researcher
to find him and she sent me information from that book. On page 3 it states
until such time as the State was able to afford the establishment of an asylum
in Salem, it would be state policy to use the facilities of the recently open
Hawthorne Asylum in Portland. In the fall of 1880 the Oregon State Legislature
appropriated $100,000. for the building of the Oregon State Insane Asylum.
Page 4 has a notice of the completion and invited the public to inspect the
premise in the fall of 1883 with a notice in the paper dated October 24
1883.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>On page 9 the Daily Oregonian carried an eyewitness
account of the transfer by train of male patients from Portland's Hawthorne
Asylum to their new home in Salem. (For details on the day's events, as well as
lists of the patients transferred to Salem that day and the next, see "Beaver
Briefs, " Vol 23 pp 21-24.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>In 1913 the name was changed to the Oregon State
Hospital.Page 12 tells of the bill S.B. 109 of the deposition of the
bodies.If not claimed within one week of death shall be delivered by the
officers of such institution for consumption at the crematory and the
ashes sent to the relatives or other persons having an interest in the deceased
if requested.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Section 3 All remains of persons who have heretofore died,
as inmates of the Oregon State Insane Asylum, and which have been buried in the
burying ground belonging to said institution, shall be exhumed and cremated in
said crematory and all monuments marking the graves of such persons, shall be
removed and placed in some suitable place on the Cottage Farm.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Page 15 For the remainder of the Cemetery's previous
residents, their last resting place became the basement of the Adolescent Ward
until 19 76 when all were place in vaults in the Memorial Circle on the
hospital grounds. Each receptacle is numbered and cross-referenced.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Patient 637 and his wife patient 595 are in a vault in the
Memorial Circle. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I would be most interested in following the information
about the release of names </FONT>in the Statesman Journal </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thank you ,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Susie in Iowa</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=MStang5165@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</A>
; <A title=pswitzertatum@peoplepc.com
href="mailto:pswitzertatum@peoplepc.com">pswitzertatum@peoplepc.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Is it slow or am
I missing emails?</DIV>
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<DIV>The Hawthorne Asylum was in Portland and is not, nor ever was, the same
as the Oregon State Hospital which is in Salem in Marion County. Not in
Lane County. Some of the oldest parts of the State Hospital (the parts used in
the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) are being torn down to be replaced
with new buildings.</DIV>
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<DIV>According to a web site Salem Online History through the Salem Public
Library, Dr. Hawthorne first opened his hospital for the "insane" in Portland
in 1862. In 1883 the Oregon State Hospital in Salem was opened. </DIV>
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<DIV>The canisters you referred to with cremains are here in Salem at the
Oregon State Hospital. Just this week there has been a legal Public Notice in
the Statesman Journal "Notice of intent to publish the names of the
individuals whose cremains are in custody of Oregon State Hospital."
..."Shall disclose to the general public the name and the dates of birth and
death of persons whose cremated remains are in the possession of the
department for the purposes of: giving a family member an opportunity to claim
the cremated remains and creating a memorial for those persons whose
cremated remains are not claimed."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What the notice does not mention is that many of the canisters no longer
have a label that is legible or a label at
all.
Mimi Stang</DIV></FONT>
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