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To~d by the Pioneers was slowly and cautiously opened, and when the crack was wide enough, she let fl~- the stick, striking old Kultus in the head. He never troubled her again. ~fothE'r wal; fond of the Indians, howen>r, especially the Indiall women. She taught some of them to knit and sew and cook. The awe they at first had of her, soon changed to love. Even the Indian melt came to her with their pathetic sorrows. I can recall when Tom Squiqui lost old :Mary how he came and talked with mother in his sorrow, and how mother explained that Mary had gone to "wake si ar illihe" -a happier land. It was mother who wrote their epitaphs and comforted them all she \\-as able; and kept Billy Barlow from" marshing" his faithful old Katie-from leaving her. Of the old days in Olympia I remember hearing mother tell of being for three months \vithout flour, of going out and eating the greell buds of wild gooseberry bushes, and of preserving wild blackberries by pushing them one at a time into the narrow neck of an ordinary bottle. She brought the first kerosene lamp to Whidby Island. She lived the coziest and happiest years, she said, iu the old three-roomed cabill with the big willows in front aud the fine view from the little windows. In reading a book on races, I was impressed by what the author said about the selective processes of pioneering that only those most fit and able to sun-ive come out of a great emigration, or the founding' and settling of a new country; and that by this process, races are impraYed and kept up to the highest standard. So I am proud of our pioneer parents and neighbors and feel that all honor is due them; and that every word we can recall and everything they did should be recorded now, before it is wholly too late .. P. O. Box 14, Phelan, California, San Bernardino Countv. o With love and good wishes, Your old friend Mollie. (Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer) l11R. SALES Pierce Countv • In 1t150 my father and mother came around the Horn from England. I was born here and in 1852 I was adopted by Edward Croft so wa" taken to Mr. Croft's donation claim. The Crofts landed in Oregon but came from Oregon here. My folks lived in Esquimault, Canada, and mv oldest brother was born there. My father and mother started out • • ]50
Told by the Pioneers here "'ith the Hudson's Ba:\' Company. They didn't "jibe" so dad and another fellow left them and took a boat and came over the Straits to the Territory of ·Washington. They rowed in a row boat and landed at Port Towllsend. F'ather's name was 'William Sales. \Yhen I was born father was working at De Lin's saw mill about where Pacific Avenue crosses Dock street. This was then on the Puyallup resi'l'vation. \\Then I was born some Indian woman waited on mother. The Croft familv . "was the closest familY, and the handiest hut it was a twelve mile trip around on an Indian trail on pony, so the~' got the Indian "woman. The Indians used to travel up through Olympia. There \\"as too much woods so thev onlY had a trail. Their travel "was most- • • Iv bv canoe. • • Dr. Tolmie came here in 1833 or 1834 and I saw Dr. Tolmie at the fort. Dr. Tolmie's boy and I would get together. Adam Benston was 11 bov friend of mine and was born in 1849 at the fort. I was horn in ." 1853 at 23rd and Dock street. The Crofts had three boys and lost all • of them. All of our family stayed at home but me. The Croft familY • • • were very lonely so thev wanted me. In 1873 father said that if I came ... . . homp and stayed with them he would give me 40 acres of land hut I said, "I don't want to, as I like it here a little hetter." There was just room for two gran's in the lot in the cemetery which was near the asylum, so "when ~Irs. Croft died they took up the hody of one of the boys and laid .3Irs. Croft in that grave. The bones of one ;;Oll ,,'ere IJut in the same grm'e with his mother. Dick was m~- older brother. He and I used to go oYer to the cook house and get cookies, etc., from the cook, ,dlOse name was Lowrie. The grist mill was down at the mouth of Nisqually creek. Dick would get on a log and would keep spinning it. ~Iy brother Dick died a year ago. 1:1 e was born in 1830. .310ther lived in a little shack on the edge of the beach while father worked in the mill. The Puyallup Indians were very peaceful, even during the Indian 'iraI'. We had no Indian scares. \Ve were not afraid of the Indians, as they were our playmates. Huggins Creek and Nisqually Creek ran throngh where the Du Pont powder works is llOW located. They had a water mill there where the~' got their power. \Vhen l\fr. Croft passed away I got the place, 320 acres. The original house "W;lS down long ago. 1'h6 second house was huiJt in 1860. Bert Bal'lle;;, a pior,eer painter, drew two pictures for me, one of the original house. He had seen it and drew it from memory ,\ith India ink. IVe would get supplies from two stores in Steilacoom. Philip Keath !tad a store' when we rame here. \\Tc ,,,auld take products over there 151
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OCCURRENCES INDEX AT NISQUALLY (Ref
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INDEX McGillivery, S., 37-June 27.
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IKDEX I Ceder. (Cedar) Iowa. 120 Ce
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INDEX Immigration, 73, 74, 75, 76,
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INDEX Nelson Bridge, 95 N Elson Fer
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