ABSTRACT
The Massacre of 1895 left hundreds of orphans and wounded in Marash and in the villages nearby. Mrs. L. O. Lee, daughter of Dr. Cyrus B. Hamlin of Constantinople and close friend of family, was director of the boys' orphanage named Ebenezer and of a girls' orphanage. The road to Aintab at one point crossed the Ak-Soo River. The home of a wealthy Turk, Dede Pasha, next to the American missionary headquarters, had been bought and converted for use as the boys' orphanage. Miss Salmond was born in 1846 in the city of Kirkintilloch, Scotland, of devout parents. When she learned of the tribulations of the Armenians in 1895, she dedicated herself to helping Armenian orphans and widows. When in 1915 the Turkish government once again began to deport and massacre Armenians, and she saw the children of the orphans she had cared for becoming orphans or being killed, her tired, sensitive soul could no longer bear the burden.
