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<P>This information is very encouraging and I applaud the Oregon State Hospital for this complex process of disclosure. </P>
<P>I hope more families find and place at rest their long-lost relatives, from these records. </P>
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<P>I wish that there were a similar process for locating someone who died at the Multnomah County "county hospital" on March 6, 1905. The whereabouts of the remains my husband's ancestor Moses F. Drake (he was born in Parkman, Piscataquis Co., Maine, October 1832) have never been discovered. He had lived and worked as a laborer at the Sylvan Hillside Poor Farm, formerly located where the Washington Park Zoo, Rose Garden, the Hoyt Arboretum, and a golf course are now. He died at the "county hospital" which we understand was at that time on the poor farm property (this is before the poor farm moved to Edgefield). His death certificate has no funeral or burial information at all, and it does not state what he died of, although he had Parkinson's Disease. He was lost to his family at the time.<BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Carol Peterson <58cjpeterson@comcast.net> <BR>Sent: Feb 2, 2011 10:05 AM <BR>To: Oregon Genealogy List <OR-ROOTS@LISTSMART.OSL.STATE.OR.US><BR>Subject: [or-roots] Oregon State Hospital unites families with cremated remains of deceased patients <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD>
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<P class=h2black><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(125,0,0)">Oregon State Hospital unites families with cremated remains of deceased patients</SPAN></P>
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<P>While the Oregon State Hospital has made enormous strides toward improving the care and treatment of the patients of today, there is unfinished work in honoring patients of previous generations.</P>
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<P>The Oregon State Hospital is the custodian of the cremated remains of approximately 3,500 people who died while living at Oregon State Hospital, Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital, Mid-Columbia Hospital, Dammasch State Hospital, Oregon State Penitentiary, and Fairview Training Center between 1914 and the 1970s. These cremains were never claimed.</P>
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<P>The hospital hopes to change that and unite the cremains with family members. To that end, the hospital has posted this list of names of the people whose cremated remains are in its possession. Hospital officials urge anyone who thinks he or she may have a family member who passed away at one of these institutions to review the list. As soon as the connection can be confirmed, the hospital will make arrangements for the cremains to be sent to the family.</P>
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<P><A id=names class=bookmark title=names name=names target=_blank></A>---Carol Peterson</P>
<P>58cjpeterson@comcast.net</P>
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