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    1. Re: [ARDREW] Orphan Home Death
    2. Melissa Jones
    3. The Drew County Cemetery Book has the following (p. 232): Oakland Cemetery, Old Cemetery Section, Block 3 (White) Caples, M. B. 1908 D. 1910 Caples, T. B. 1906 D. 1912 At 1:15 PM -0800 1/5/01, jann woodard wrote: >Ark. Gazette Feb. 1, 1910, Monticello - Finding a >bottle of carbolic acid in a room, where she had been >left to play in the absence of the nurse, Mercedes >Caples, a 3 year old inmate of the Orphans' Home of >Monticello, drank the contents and died within a few >minutes. The nurse was gone from the room only a few >minutes and how the child got the bottle from the >shelf where it stood is a mystery. The little girl >was brought to the home from Clarendon.

    01/07/2001 12:52:30