A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . rcy of the prairie wolf. They were a forlorn andweary crowd when they arrived on theColumbia river, where Dalles Citynow stands. Learning that they could go no farther with their wagons,they hired Indians to take them down the river in boats. Any one that hasever seen the rocks, whirlpools, and cascades for which the Columbia riveris noted between there and Portland can have a faint idea of the dangerous un-dertaking b
A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . rcy of the prairie wolf. They were a forlorn andweary crowd when they arrived on theColumbia river, where Dalles Citynow stands. Learning that they could go no farther with their wagons,they hired Indians to take them down the river in boats. Any one that hasever seen the rocks, whirlpools, and cascades for which the Columbia riveris noted between there and Portland can have a faint idea of the dangerous un-dertaking before them. Often the water would dash over the boat, completelydrenching the occupants, when they would land, build bonfires and dry theirclothes and bedding. The men would then tow the boats until they reachedsmoother water, while the women would climb over the rocks and logs alongthe shore, carrying and dragging their little ones with them until they couldtake passage again. Six months were consumed ere the little party arrived inOregon City, then a trading post of the Hudson Bay Company. During thejourney down the river a young girl died and was buried on the present. .^^ tx^lp (^^.«^^/- SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 417 site of Portland, then a dense wilderness. After remaining one year in Ore-gon City, Mr. Henibree secured a claim in Yamhill county, that state, andthere the daughter, Nancy Matilda, attended the district schools, her instruc-tor being the well known Judge Deady. Her father served as captain of acompany during the Indian war of 1855 and 1856 and was killed in battlenear where Yakima now stands. His mutilated body brought homeand laid to rest with Masonic and military honors at the homestead, whichhe had given his life to obtain. His widow after surviving him twentyyears, rejoined her beloved husband in the home beyond. In Yamhill coun-ty. Oregon, Miss Hembree gave her hand in marriage to H. H. Snow, amerchant, and in 1877 they came to Renton, King county,
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