[or-roots] Attn Kin of Salem Hospital deceased

[Ben Tabler]

To quote from a news release by ODHS yesterday.

"Hammer said the hospital has urns for patients whose remains were not
claimed after 1914, and most can be identified by an urn number that
corresponds to patient medical records.
There are burial records for 1,539 other patients who died between the time
the hospital opened in 1883 until 1913 but no indication of where the
remains are now, Hammer said. He said records show that the state
Legislature directed that patient remains buried in the Oregon State Insane
Asylum cemetery during that 30-year period be exhumed for cremation in 1913,
but the record ends there. (The name at that time was also changed from
asylum to hospital.)"

Maynard Hammer is the State Hospital deputy superintendent.

My grandmother died at the hospital in 1903 and she is one of the 1539.

Ben Tabler
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