Foundling Baby, for Whom The Tribune
Found a Home, Died Sunday Morning


Tribuna Sanford, foundling baby, discovered by The Tribune last August and later adopted by C.C. Sanford, 1709 Fourth avenue south, died Sunday morning. Specialists were called in Saturday in an effort to save the baby's life. Tribuna had been in poor health ever since she was found on a doorstep last August. She had submitted to three serious operations, and just as she was regaining her strength contracted the whooping cough. When she recovered from this attack a few weeks ago, she was left in a weakened condition. The parents are heart broken. Tribuna was eight months old Saturday. She was found on a doorstep on the morning of Aug. 23 last. A note was found giving the date of her birth and asking that someone care for her.

Rites for Little Foundling
to Be Held This Afternoon

Tribuna [Sanford] was left in the store of the Sanfords last August, by an unknown woman who had entered and asked Mrs. Sanford for a drink of water. When Mrs. Sanford returned with the water the woman was gone but she left the baby. So fond were Mr. and Mrs. Sanford of the child that they adopted it. The parents are heart broken over the loss of their adopted child. Tribuna was eight months old Saturday, when she was baptized by Rev. Irving Johnson, rector of Gethsemane Episcopal church. Funeral services Tuesday at 1 p.m., at Gethsemane church. Rev. L. Houlgate, brother-in-law of Mrs. Sanford, will officiate. Interment in Crystal Lake cemetery.

A day before Tribuna died, a minister from Gethsemane Episcopal Church in Minneapolis visited the Sanford home and baptized the girl "in extremis," according to church records. This postcard of the church at 905 4th Av. S. in downtown Minneapolis is from about 1905. (Image courtesy of mnhs.org)

Little Baby's Trinkets
Laid Away in Coffin

When Tribuna Evelyn Sanford, the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Sanford, 1709 Fourth avenue south, who died last Sunday, was laid to rest Tuesday, her sorrowing foster-parents placed in the casket all her little trinkets, her ring, locket and her favorite doll. The casket was covered with floral offering from people who had become her friends, some without even seeing her, by the newspaper accounts of her romantic adoption by the Sanfords. "The kindness of so many people in our hour of trial makes us feel as if we were being rewarded almost too much for our act in adopting Tribuna," said Mrs. Sanford.