Mary Frances Orme

Executive Mansion, Washington, December 23, 1862.

Dear Fanny It is with deep grief that I learn of the death of your kind and brave Father; and, especially, that it is affecting your young heart beyond what is common in such cases. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once. The memory of your dear Father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer, and holier sort than you have known before.

Please present my kind regards to your afflicted mother.

Your sincere friend A. LINCOLN.

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Married to Frank DeSales Orme 4 Jun 1866, McLean Co., Ill.

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ORME- On Tuesday Feb 3, 1920 at 5 p. m. at Washington Sanitarium in Takoma Park, Md. MARY FRANCES, wife of the late Frank E. (sic) Orme.

Funeral from the Dominican Chapel, 487 Michigan avenue northeast, Friday February 6 at 9 a. m. Interment at Mount Olivet.

SOURCE- The Washington Post,
Obituary, Washington, District of Columbia, 1920,

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Founded as the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital on June 13, 1907, by Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders, Montgomery County's first hospital had 40 beds and provided care in a tranquil setting. At the time, Takoma Park was a resort community with homes dotted among trees. One of the hospital's first major investments was the purchase of a local dairy farm to obtain fresh milk for patients.

SOURCE- http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Ellen White, an early Adventist leader (co-founder) who worked
with Dr. Kellogg and shared his interest and deep understanding of nutrition, exercise, and healthy living, chose Takoma Park, Maryland (Sharing a Border with Washington, DC) as the best site for the new sanitarium. Proceeds from her book, “Ministry of Healing” purchased the land in Takoma Park in 1905.

The 40-bed Washington Sanitarium opened on June 13, 1907 with a staff of 12. It was a gracious facility with spacious grounds, a variety of gardens, and was intended to be a homelike institution where special diet would be combined with instruction in healthful living in a friendly atmosphere.

SOURCE- http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/