Young Indian Matron Passes
Funeral services were held at the home Thursday for Alice Corbett, 28-year old Indian matron, whose death occurred Wednesday morning. The young woman, whose husband, a brother and father, the latter Peter Corbett, who was widely known as a kind of Christianized medicine man, died of influenza in 1919, is survived by her mother and a small daughter. The family is one of the last few remaining of the original Dog River Indians.
Sam Williams, Indian minister, of The Dalles, officiated at the service. S. E. Bartmess directed the funeral.
Young Indian Matron Passes
Funeral services were held at the home Thursday for Alice Corbett, 28-year old Indian matron, whose death occurred Wednesday morning. The young woman, whose husband, a brother and father, the latter Peter Corbett, who was widely known as a kind of Christianized medicine man, died of influenza in 1919, is survived by her mother and a small daughter. The family is one of the last few remaining of the original Dog River Indians.
Sam Williams, Indian minister, of The Dalles, officiated at the service. S. E. Bartmess directed the funeral.
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