Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Yasuzo Mitoma ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Yasuzo Mitoma
LAST NAME: Mitoma FIRST NAME: Yasuzo MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 5 Nov 1911 DIED: 13 Mar 1913 BURIED: 13 Mar 1913
ETHNICITY:  Japanese OCCUPATION:  Child
BIRTH PLACE:  Japan
DEATH PLACE: Independence, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH DC (Polk County 1910) #2692- Yasuzo Mitoma, male, child, b. 5 Nov 1911 in Japan, d. 13 Mar 1913 in Independence, Oregon at the age of 1 yr 4 m's 8 d's, of accidental morphine poisoning, both parents b. in Japan, interment 13 Mar in IOOF, Salem, undertaker C. W. Hinkle;
OBITUARY: 
EATS MORPHINE. Young Japanese Accidentally Poisons Self At His Home Near Salem. The funeral of Yasuze Mitoma, a Japanese boy aged sixteen months, who accidentally killed himself on Thursday night by taking poison, was held yesterday at the Rigdon-Richardson chapel, Rev. P. S. Knight officiating. About one hundred of the deceased's countrymen were present at the services. Burial took place in the I. O. O. F. cemtery. 
The home of the deceased was about six miles west of Salem, where his father owns a large hopyard. It seems that the child was playing about the bunkhouse where the hired men of the place sleep, and finding some morphine, ate the stuff not knowing what it was. This was on Thursday evening. Death occurred during the following night at aboutr 2:30 o'clock. The boy's father is one of the wealthiest Japanese in this part of the state. It is said that he just recently refused $100,000 for his hopyard. 
Oregon Statesman 14 May 1913 1:2
INSCRIPTION: 
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Polk County 1910) #2692 
OS 14 May 1913 1:2
CONTACTS: 
LOT: ? SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: