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A Gruesome Discovery

Democratic Times newspaper clipping 7 Aug 1902 p. 1    mentions a suicide on Poorman's Creek on the Beck place - the body of Henry a aged negro who had been living there. advised to go to the county hospital but killed himself instead. Formerly sold fruit at the Ashland Depot

Location
Blacks in Southern Oregon
Source
Vertical Files, Subjects