The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-22
WILLIAM WALLACE DEAD.
WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST PlO-
xEERs or WASHINGTON.
settled On Puget sossd In the Early
sprfng Of $50. His wife BeiaE
Ftrss white Womsn To Resfde IN
o,yupta-Inetdenss Of Early Days

Special r,s<rsatch 20 sae pos.-iatsiligencer
la CONNER April Ain he death 0.
william Wallace. which occurred on the
18th srsr. at the home 81 hiE ei&eS aa0xh-
ter Mrs J D Ru3sns, - Pisassnf Ritze
a hcsls Sxo miles from this place, ended iae
life career 81 che q tire most aciiVs ana
sturdy pasaeer~ that ever came 10 tas
Pacific coast. RE VAS born in Montpelier.
VI June r. 1851. Of Puritan stock. and
a siirsc, Descendant Of Sir William Wal
lace. Of Scotland the famous Scottish
chief In isSs as crossed ne continent win
an 0x team ami I0eassd al Oregon CITY,
Or, where re resided. working al Ms
trade rs = carpenter. and In $50 married
Mrs Cornelius Of snst place.
IN tne fall Of 1858 ne took his departure
w!t1 hAs wife ard little daughter. now
Mrs Rsssiene. ia aH open Fat boat for Pu-
gst SCUM Thegr cCursr We. Gown the
Willamette past Portland, then mere
har,i@t 70 the Columbia. and down that
MA 3estic stream 10 the mouth OF the Cow
lB;x river. and thfre embarked overland
with an or team fgr Tgmwster. or Oiym-
pla bgt winter eyertoaa them and shey
wintereG on What WAS tnen known as
Frenc9 rTair.e. and In me early spring OF
is5o landed a; TGmwstsr, his wife being
the fret white woman - reach the now
capital % the state 81 Washington. 4. then
being - par Of Oregon
They resided there for two years. during
which liue quite a fossrshng settlement
sprans up. and then he took Ais family
and effects ard moved Ia Indian canoes.
which were then ;he only means Of trans
po.tat ton on the sound 20 WILDLY island.
locating at what Is now known as Crescent
Harbor. and took up a donation claim Of
60 acres OF land. His was the first white
family 10 settle on the !s.aEd and IN 1888
their second daughter. now Mrs. Mary
.4s 81 ~
ing the first white child born on the ISL
and. In ias their only son. James. now a
Jeweler Of San Francisco. was born. he be-
Ing the second white native born child Of
the island In ISIS another daughter. now
Mrs Sarah Allen Parius. OF Co.!ax Wash
Was born 10 them.
Mr.. Wallace and family resided cou;lnu-
oasly on WILDLY island for sixteen years
with no other neI9hbors than the wild In
dams. for the greater part Of the time
ard then he sold his land and moved hack
To Oregon, residing near Salem and Hood
River until ais wife died. Ia 1891. when he
came 10 i've with his daQ ghtcr az this place
He never took any active part In poll
ties. but was staach Republican.
Mrs Rudsne. while narra,iug the fam
iiy's early experiences in Washington re-
called many an interesting experience and
one In particular OF which she says she
has often thought. While en- route from
olympia 10 WILDLY island they landed for
the night on the shores OF Elliott hay
where row stands the Queen City OF the
sound and while eamped there Old Chief
Seattle paid their camp a friendly Visit,
and impiored her father TO 10 no farther
but locate there. and he could nave all the
land he wanted. Seattle then, she said
was nothing bat an Indian village She
also says the Indians were always very
friendly 10 her parents and shat they never
experienced the slightest trouble with
them However, she says. younger broth
or or her father was killed by Indians At
Fort SteiIac0oru a.ong IN the early 51s tn.
reason they assigned for doing so was sim
ply an experiment 10 see II their arrows
would kill a white man.