Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Farris, Infant March 4, 1893
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Oregonian March 5,1893
A Sad Story
Sudden death Of A Sick Child At The UNion Depot
A pethetic incident occurred at the Union depot shortly after 7 o'clock 
yesterday morning.A young Assyrian woman,who gave her name as Mrs.Julia 
Farris,alighted from the early Union Pacific train carrying a 9 month old 
child in her arms. Unnoticed,she went over to one corner of the wasiting room 
and laid her bundle down on the seat,while she took a bottle of medicine from 
her pocket and prepared to administr some to her child.An exclamation of 
horror attracted the people in the room to the spot,and they found the young 
mother standing with a dead infant in her arms.The poor woman was turned over 
to the city board of charities,and the remains were taken in charge by Coroner 
Holman.Mrs.Farris states that she came ot this country from Assyria two years 
ago.Soon after her arrival she married a man whom she has been forced to 
support unitl about six months ago,when he left her in Moscow,Idaho.For the 
past thre emonths the child has been sicj,and the poor mother has been 
struggling for sufficient mwans to give it proper nourishment and medicine.She 
came ot Portland in hopes that the milder climate might bring back the child's 
health,but it is probable that death came to its relief beofre it mother 
alighted from the train.

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