The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-07-04
SHE SAW WHITMAN MASSACRE.

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Mrs. E. 8. Warren, aged 80 years
died at Occur d'Alene, last week
When a child she witnessed the mas
sacre of Whitman by Indians. Mrs
warren was the mother of Mrs. Fred
iiisley, who is well known to man,
residents Of Douglas. Chelan and Okla
hogan counties. Mr. and Mrs. Illsle,
lived at Bridgeport at one time. Mr.
lllsley was elected county clerk o.
Douglas county and the family resid
ed in Waterville for two years. The,
afterwards lived for time at Che
saw and from Chesaw went to Chelan
The late Mrs. Warren visited and liy
ed with her daughter for a time a,
lChelan. The sketch Of the life of this
pioneer and the account of the drama
marking the early history of the ter.
ritory of which she was an eye wit
ness. as published in the Spokesman.
Review, will be read with interest h,
the people of this county:
Occur d'Alene, Idaho, June 23.-
Mrs. Eliza Spaulding Warren, age 50
who witnessed the Whitman massacre
and saw the site of the city of Port.
land when log cabin was its only
building. was buried from the Presby.
terian church at Coeur d'Alene this
AFTERNOON. At the service the Rev. Mr.
Hunter paid tribute to the mother
, OF the west, declared to have been the
Oldest living white woman born west
OF the Rockies. She was born Noyem-
Der 18th, 1887 the daughter of the
Rev. Henry Harmon Spaulding and
Elizabeth Hart Spaulding, who in COM
pany with Marcus Whitman and his
wife came to Oregon territory in 1886.
Mrs. Warrens father commenced
the first Nez Perce mission, at Lapwai,
Idaho, and returned to die among his
people on August 3, 1874.
She was the second child to be born
in the Nez Perce district.
Her parents settled on the banks
or the Clearwater at what is now
Lapwai. There they erected a small,
substantial log house and there Eliza
Spaulding Warren was born.
At the age of 8 she was sent to the
Whitman mission to receive her ele-
mentary education. During her first
vacation, with her brother Henry, and
her father, Mrs. Warren took trip
by horseback to the Willamette valley.
Excerpts from her memoirs say: II
do not know how long we were in
making the trip 49, = we stopped at
The Dalles few days to rest. We
found but two families there, Mr..
Brewer and Mr.. Walker, both mission
ariess : I'VE vent In row boats to
the mouth of the Columbia, landing at
Clatsop plains. The first place we saw
was Portland, consisting of one log
building.
I'VE went on in our crude row boats
down the mighty river, stopping next
at Astoria, where one little shack OF
house sat perched upon the hillside.
There was a British man-o'-war anch-
ored there and we went on board, we
children reveling at the unusual
sights"
Describing the Whitman massacre,
in her memoirs, Mrs. Warren says: !:
In the month of November, 1847 faith
er took me to DIR. Whitman's to attend
school through the winter. was then
ten years old. There were several
families of emigrants spending the
winter at the Doctors. In the spring
they would 60 on to the Willamette
valley. There were several children
among the emigrant families and Dr.
and Mrs. Whitman had taken the
seven Sagar children, whose parents
had died on the plains, into their home
as members Of their own family"
On Monday evening, Nov. 20, 1847, DR.
Whitman was in the sitting room talk
ing with his wife and Mrs. Caborn
While they were talking an Indian
knocked at the door and asked to see
the doctor about the sick, and wanted
medicine. The doctor stepped into the
outer room, finding several Indians
sitting and stonding in the room. The
doctor stood among them inquiring
about their sick, when one Of them
whipped a tomahawk from under his
blanket and buried it in the doctors
head. That was the signal for the out.
| break. All over the place was heard al
once the firing Of guns, the yelling
and war whoops of the Indians. Fol
years the firing of gun or sudder
shout, brought up vivid memories o1
this terrible hour and place."
In the fall of 1S49 Mrs. Warren at
tended the trial of five Indians who
took part in the massacre, held a
Orgon City,
Warren and they lived near the littl'
town of Brownsville, Oregon. In 1859
they trekked by OK team to the Walls
! Walla country, finally locating ir
eastern Oregon, in 1873, where hel
children were reared. Mr.. Warren diet
on November 4, 1886.
| With her at the time of her dealt
were her daughters, Mrs. JOSEPH
Crooks, of Prineville, Oregon; Mrs
F. F. Illsley, of Seattle and her son
James Warren, of Cataldo. Idaho. Sh'
died Saturday midnight. at 705, Secon'
avenue, this city.
Phil, a young son of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Prince, met with a very pain
full accident Sunday evening. A hOrs
the lad attempted to ride bucked
throwing him violently to the ground
Phil sustained a fracture of the righ
arm at the wrist and elbow. DR.. Levi