Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Belcher, Mary C. November 1904
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Mornign Oregonian November 13,1904
The Late Mrs.Mary M.C.Belcher
Mrs.Mary C.Belcher,whose sdden death in Seattle recently shocked and grieved a 
wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Portland,as well as throughout 
Eastern Washington,was a woman of artistic nature and strong character.She was 
a pioneer of the Pacific Northwest,having passed the greater part of her life 
on the Coast.She fully appreciated its beauties,and enjoyed to the utmost  the 
raw development of its resources.Mrs.Belcher was a woman of artistic and 
literary tastes,having beenin late years busy much of the time with her pen 
and brush.She conducted,under the name of Mary C.Bell,several years ago,a 
woman's column in the Sunday Oregonian,contributing thereto many bright and 
beautiful thoughts.Her funeral occurred Friday afternoon last week from the 
home of her daughter,Mrs.John H.Hall,in this city.With tender eulogy and 
tears,her body was borne to it last repose in Riverview Cemetary,a bank of 
exquisite memorial flowers marking the place of internment,from which the 
sorowing husband,daughteer and friends reluctantly turned away.

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