My Father Poisoned Me

Ora Inga Ray (1893-1900) missed the opportunity to live a full life when she died just before her seventh birthday after being poisoned by her father. Ora Inga Ray was killed October 1, 1900 just shy of her 8th birthday.Ora was the second child of four children born into a biracial family living in Duluth, Minnesota. William Henry Ray, born in North Carolina in 1858 and Inga Nordquist Ray, born in Sweden in 1870 were her parents.October 1900 has been recorded as the wettest month of the year in weather history. I would like to think that Ora dying on the 1st of the month resulted in the state of Minnesota forever weeping her avoidable loss.Ora is resurrected, one hundred and twenty- one years later by all those who read her story.