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1. Wonderful story. We need more such stories.

2. THANK YOU SUSAN WEALTH ORVIS.

3. Many thanks to the Armenian Weekly for support.

   Anyone wishing to contact the authors can write an e-mail: kamomailyan@yahoo.com

4. Thank you SUSAN Wealth ORVIS. RIP. Thank you Nancy Moore for sharing your aunt’s memories with the world and specially with surviving Armenians. God Bless you.

5. Thank you Nancy Moore for your love and respect towards your wonderful aunt for being amazing Christian by helping and caring for the orphans. My mom was also an orphan.
   We can learn from the experience of Susan Wealthy Orvis. Her sweet soul is blessed.

6. To Nancy Moore: Thanks for your Aunts story in helping Armenian Orphans during the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 by the Ottoman & Young Turk regimes. Steve Dulgarian

7. Thank you for researching and sharing this story. We need to know and celebrate the brave and selfless human beings who saved the victims of persecution. Unfortunately, denial has made many sink into obscurity.

8. Thank you to Susan Wealth Orvis – God Bless her for taking care of the Armenian orphans.

9. A wonderful example of humanitarian care and love.
   I hope that these wonderful people will always be remembered internationally and particularly in Armenia. I wonder if there is a memorial established in Armenia for these beautiful humanitarians. God bless them all. Lovely factual article.

10. I am crying so hard I can hardly type GOD BLESS SUSAN WEALTH ORVIS she needs a mark of fame in history books of ARMENIANS and the world over for her selfless sacrifice and courage period She is a REAL SAINT SHE SHOULD BE REMEMBERED IN HISTORY and from this day forward she WILL be remembered always in my HEART AND SOUL Im still sobbing THANK-YOU I would love to have copy of anything she wrote and anything about her I am saving this article forver

11. Oh sorry THANK-YOU NANCY MOORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for sharing this story of this Saint of a woman from the bottom of my heart Sandy Koch my mom is Armenian my dad wasn’t but that doesn’t make me any less ARMENIAN than any other Armenian

12. Thank you to Susan Wealth Orvis for her love and dedication to the Armenian Orphans Thank you Nancy Moore for sharing this story with us

13. Thank you very much for the great work of humanity.

14. It has been honour to hear your name again for ever to come !
    Thank you Susan

15. Is Ms. Orvis’ experience in print?

16. If there is a biography with regard to Ms. Orvis experiences, I would be interested in purchasing a copy.

    • Dear Margaret Stepanian, the manuscript of Susan Wealthy Orvis is not available in print. However, I have obtained a digital copy of the original manuscript which I will be very happy to share. Please contact me by e-mail: kamomailyan@yahoo.com

17. Kamo, my dear friend, thank you for the story, I believe we should know more!

18. Because of Susan Wealthy Orvis God bless her soul and her likes my parents wew able to be raised in orphanages
    Thank you Nancy Moore for exposing of your Aunts memoirs . So that the world can see what they don’t want to see

19. Thank you Nancy for your memoirs, all my grandparents were saved by orphanages.

20. A very touching article which brings to light the selfless service by a very humane and caring missionary, Susan Wealthy Orvis. The inhumane suffering that war and genocide can inflict upon humanity, not sparing women and children is heartrending. Amidst that despair, the compassion and sacrifice of people such as Susan Orvis is remarkable and would go unnoticed, but for articles like this. To the thousands for whom she was the saviour, Susan must truly have been a mother. A memorial would be a fitting tribute to this remarkable woman.

21. Coincidentally, in the same page was a link to the article ‘Oh Mother, Sweet and Tender, Where Art Thou?’ (http://armenianweekly.com/2015/04/04/mother/), dedicated to the memory of one of 110 orphans of the Armenian genocide who settled down in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada! The article and the comments give more details of the sufferings in Armenia and a better understanding of how Susan’s sacrifice and service would have made a huge difference to those whom she helped.

22. GOD BLESS Susan Wealth and THANKS for everythinng she has done for Armenians and humanity.
    Thank you Kamo for your work to present the real storY that will help us also to educate our kids.

23. For all I know, this amazing woman helped someone in my family. My grandmother was from Smyrna and lived there in 1922. She escaped with only her life. Thank you Nancy Moore. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Susan Wealthy Orvis. Long live the truth.

    • Eleanor Kas – I am very interested in finding the traces of those children and who were helped by Susan Wealthy Orvis. Please send me your contacts: kamomailyan@yahoo.com thank you.

24. Susan, may you rest in the eternal sleep of peace knowing that your story is now on the internet for all to read. It is being passed around and post at all social media also. The truth is final being exposed! Thank you!

25. This is a great article! Susan was my Great Great Aunt and I’m thrilled to see that she’s been properly recognized for her selflessness. Though I have to dispute her place of Death. I have the Original Obituary and it states that Susan died on Jan 10,at the home of her sister Mrs. Harriett Cook,in Earlville (Iowa)NOT in Ohio as the article states. Knowing the history and her life, I believe that her place of death should be corrected. I thank you for such wonderful information.

    • Hello Michelle K. Outz-Summers, I am also a great-niece of Susan Wealthy Orvis. Thank you for correcting her place of death. I recently went through Susan’s files at Oberlin College, which I recommend. If you would like to compare family trees, please contact me!

26. Happy Birthday to Susan Wealthy Orvis! She was born on December 20th, 1873!

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