[or-roots] Hawthorne Asylum

[Carl Ostling]

You may find the following link useful, especially all the references material that has all your references plus many more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_Hospital
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  From: MStang5165 at aol.com 
  To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us 
  Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:14 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Hawthorne Asylum


  I am familiar with the book you cited - in fact, Sue Bell is a friend. But note that the title is the "Asylum Cemetery." It concerns the old cemetery there - the bodies were removed, cremated and placed in the canisters - and documented. I believe that this is just a small number of the cremains that are actually held by the Oregon State Hospital.

  If you do a Google search for "cremains at Oregon State Hospital" you will get 2,600 hits! The one from the New York Times (quoted from The Oregonian) is quite good and gives the number as 3,489 cremains that are there in canisters. And the notation that many of the labels are no longer legible.

  The Public Notice in the Statesman Journal gives the following: Family members may report their objection to the publication of a relative's information by contacting  DHS at: oshcremains at state.or.us.  However, I have tried using this URL a number of times and it does not seem to work! Never brings up an Oregon State Hospital web site.    
                 Mimi Stang


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