Jackson-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Robinson, Joseph September 20, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com July 3, 2008, 8:59 am Mornign Oregonian September 21,1904 Despondent Pioneer Suicides Once Wealthy Man Takes Carbolic Acid Ashland,Or.,Sept.20- Joseph Robinson,an Oreogn pioneer of the '50s,committed suicide here this morning by swallowing an ounce of carbolic acid. A son,with whom he lived,found the old man on the ground in a barn opposite the home on C street about 7 o'clock suffering from the poison. He was taken home and aid was summoned,but he died about 10 o'clock in great agony.An almost illegible note was found on his bed,reading as follows: "Good bye to all.Tell the undertaker to bury me on that lot in the Wagner Creek graveyard,i any one knows where it is;if not,any old place will do.Good bye to all.You will find the moneyin my pocket at the head of the bed." Seventy dollars was found in the desigated place.Robinson ,who had lost one leg,had been despondent for some time. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/jackson/obits/r/robinson3983gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb