Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gorman, Martha 1923
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, February 10, 1923

Mrs. Martha Gorman, of Portland, died Friday under tragic circumstances.  Her 
death resulted from an attack of pneumonia.  She died in the midst of dire 
poverty and want, aided in her last hours by generous Portland neighbors, 
after she had been deserted by her husband and had been found Thursday, 
delirious, sitting up in bed, clasping in her arms the dead body of her 
youngest child, a newly born infant.

Mrs. Gorman lived on Kent street and previous to her marriage about a year ago 
to Gorman was Mrs. Martha Hall.  There were three children, the eldest a boy 
of 14.  Gorman deserted the family, it is stated, later and it is also charged 
that he squandered a sum of money which Mrs. Gorman and her son had saved up.  
Since then the mother and the 14-year-old son have succeeding in providing for 
the small family until Mrs. Gorman became ill.  Since that time the children 
have been practically destitute.



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