The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1905-03-28
DAUGHTER OF
REV. SPAUlO|Nc
Will Visit Portland Fair--fIas Much
Valuable Data Relating to
Early Idaho History.

WALLA WALLA. March 27.-The |
Statesman says: With the proud dis
tinction Of being the oldest living white |
child of the famous Marcus Whitman
expedition, Mrs. Eliza Warren of Che
Ian and we'll known in Walla Walla
where she has often Visited, is planning |
to visit the Lewis and Clark exposition
this summer where she expects to meet
many old pioneers of the northwest.
Mrs Warren will be accompanied by
her granddaughter, Mrs. John Flirk
Blackmore, of Seattle, SO that Wash
ington will furnish three living de-
scendants in direct line of members OF
the Whitman band.
Mrs. Warren is the daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. H. H. Spaulding. and the
mother was one OF the two brides of
that expedition. Her father was one
Of the best known missionaries in the
northwest, and his name is still held
in loved remembrance by the Nez Perce
Indians. among whom he labored. Rev.
Mr. Sapulding and his bride left New
York city. February 1. 1885. with the
intention of laboring among the Usage
Indians. but they were persuaded
short time later to Join the Whitman
party. which was destined to travel
across the Rocky mountains to what
was then almost an undiscovered coun-
| try.
| Mrs. Warren was born November Is,
1887. A little daughter was born to
Rev. and Mrs. Whitman the preceding
April, but she was drowned when two
years of age. so that Mrs Warren is
the Oldest white person now living who
was a member of that party. She was
born at Lapwai. which is y what is
now known as Idaho. but which was
then a part of the great Oregon coun-
try. and her mother was one of the
first two white women to cross the
Rocky mountains. Mrs. Whitman being
the other.
i Mrs. Warren knew Chief Joseph
when ne was n boy at Lapwai, and
she knew his father. who was a famous
chief among the Nee Perces. When
she was 10 years old. her father
brought her to the Walla Walla coun-
try. where DIR. Whitman and his wife
hal settled. so that she could attenc
school. That winter DIR. Whitman and
fourteen white immigrants who wer'
resting there were massacred by thu
Cayuse Indians. The lives Of thu
women and children were spared. blu
: they were kept captives three weeks
= Mrs. Warren talks Interestingly o
those trying times.
Il Commander Ogden of the Hudson
= Bay company came from Vancouver t
walla walla with body of men ant
rescued the captives. taking them t
Portland. 1t was December and tn
women and Mrs. Spaulding contracte,
e a severe cold during the trip. Thi
e cold developed later into consumption
and she died when her daughter, nov
Mrs. Warren. was Is years OF age Re,
Mr.. Spaulding died at Lapwai in 1874
y Mrs. Warren was married when sh
e was Is years old to Andrew J. Warner
u a stockman. In the Willamette valley.
: Mrs. Warren has visited her birth
e place. Lapwai, but once since she lei
: 1t, and that was forty-six years latel
- Then with the lapse of nearly half
: century she found one old Indian VIII
/ remembered her and tears OF 10
streamed down his wrinkled face whe
r ne clasped her hand for he had rookie
n her as baby.
IS Mrs. Warren saw Portland for tn
: first time in 1s45. and at that time sh
says. there was but one house there
!. and that was made Of logs She mad
a that trip from Lapwai on a pony. &C
= companying a party which crossed tn
Cascade mountains over trails. TIL
+, party travelled 600 miles to reacl
: Portland, making forty or fifty miles
day.
:. Will Visit Exposition
Mrs. Warren is looking forward witt
a good deal of pleasure to visit I,
!. the exposition, for she expects to NEE
many pioneers there and have an op
portunity to talk over the early day
e of the northwest which has been .,
:. transformed In the last few years tina
:. she declares she hardly recognizes il
She expects to end her days on tn
n banks of the beautiful Lake Chelan
r itself one OF the wonder spots of thi
n mighty young state.
One of he most highly treasured O
Mrs. Warren's possessions is a diar,
kept by her mother during the YEAR