Early history of Thurston County, Washington : together with biographies and reminiscences of those identified with pioneer days . had gone. Such a commotion! My feelings can better be imagined anddescribed, but time told us our fears were groundless. That was a long night. Not a wink of sleep for came, but no signs of Indians. The men were outtwo days and never saw nor heard an Indian. How rejoicedI was when I saw my good husband again! There was one man in the company who used to give usa scare by firing his gun while on guard. The orders werenot a gun was to be shot unless at an
Early history of Thurston County, Washington : together with biographies and reminiscences of those identified with pioneer days . had gone. Such a commotion! My feelings can better be imagined anddescribed, but time told us our fears were groundless. That was a long night. Not a wink of sleep for came, but no signs of Indians. The men were outtwo days and never saw nor heard an Indian. How rejoicedI was when I saw my good husband again! There was one man in the company who used to give usa scare by firing his gun while on guard. The orders werenot a gun was to be shot unless at an Indian. Knowing this,imagine yourself, sitting by the fire, vrith everything quiet,and then hear one shot after another! The old man alwayssaid he saw Indians. The war broke out in October, 1855, and ended in June,1856. The last battle was fought east of the mountains. There is a great deal more that I could write, but timewill not permit me. v; -A ^•^HLICUBKAKyj. JACOB OTT AND WIFE PIONEER REMINISCENCTCS 17.; MRS. JACOB OTT I wish >\Ir. Ott were here to tell you about the excitins:experiences he went through in early days, said Mrs. JacobOtt, when interviewed and asked to tell the story of her lifein Olympia. *I never knew any hardships, and, although thelife in America was new and strange to me, upon my arrivalfrom my girlhood home in Switzerland, I was always com-fortable. All dangers from Indian outrages was over andcivilization was quite well advanced. But when ]\Ir. Ott came to America in 1850, he found thecountry very different from what he had been accustomed was also born in Switzerland and it was there that helearned his trade of carpenter. AYhen quite a young man hecame to this country, stopping first in St. Louis. Later hejoined a train of emigrants bound for the Golden West. Allplaces were alike to the young man, adventure, and perhapsa chance to gather some of the gold he heard so much about,was what he was looking for.
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