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     Ida Smith was born on 17 November 1858 at NY, USA. Cemetery records. She was the daughter of Leonard Smith and Emeline Derrick. Ida Smith died on 27 August 1864 at Troy, Rensselaer County, NY, USA, at age 5. Cemetery records. She was buried at Oakwood Cemetery, at Troy, Rensselaer County, NY, USA.

     Leon Charles Hauck Jr. was born on 23 September 1935 at MI, USA. He was the son of Leon Charles Hauck and Mary Esther Nicola. Leon Charles Hauck Jr. died on 12 September 1998 at age 62.

     Frank H. Stiles was born in December 1873 at CA, USA. 1900 census. He was the son of Paschal Pulaski Stiles and Caroline Brown.

     Howard David Carpenter was born on 5 October 1877 at WI, USA. He was the son of David J Carpenter and Rhoda Page Stiles. Howard David Carpenter died on 6 September 1955 at Hammondsport, Steuben County, NY, USA, at age 77. He was buried at Pleasant Valley Cemetery, at Hammondsport, Steuben County, NY, USA.

     Edgar John Carpenter was born in May 1871 at WI, USA. He was the son of David J Carpenter and Rhoda Page Stiles. Edgar John Carpenter died on 3 November 1931 at Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, CA, USA, at age 60. He was buried at Santa Rosa Odd Fellows Cemetery, at Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, CA, USA.

     Cynthia Caroline Carpenter was born on 31 December 1850 at IL, USA. Agew 13 at the 1870 census. She was the daughter of David J Carpenter and Rhoda Page Stiles. Cynthia Caroline Carpenter died on 16 February 1949 at WI, USA, at age 98. She was buried at East Cemetery, at Thorp, Clark County, WI, USA. Canthia Caroline Carpenter Poope.

     Elsie A. Carpenter was born on 1 February 1855 at McHenry County, IL, USA. She was the daughter of David J Carpenter and Rhoda Page Stiles. Elsie A. Carpenter married John P. Marshall in 1875 at WI, USA. Elsie A. Carpenter died on 27 February 1937 at Lewistown, Fergus County, MT, USA, at age 82. She was buried at Lewistown City Cemetery, at Lewistown, Fergus County, MT, USA.

     Hattie M Carpenter was born on 4 July 1867 at WI, USA. She was the daughter of David J Carpenter and Rhoda Page Stiles. Hattie M Carpenter died on 31 July 1945 at age 78. She was buried at Pomona Mousoleum, at Pomona, Los Angeles County, CA, USA.

     John P. Marshall was born on 14 February 1845 at Canada. He married Elsie A. Carpenter, daughter of David J Carpenter and Rhoda Page Stiles, in 1875 at WI, USA. John P. Marshall died on 18 April 1933 at age 88. John P. Marshall was born near New London, Ontario, Canada, In Feb. 1845. At an early age he came to the United States and was employed near Detroit, Mich. In 1871 he came to Black River Falls, Wis., and was employed on Black River as a woodsman.

In Oct. 1872 he took up a homestead near Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.) and was one of the first settlers in north Clark County.

Christmas Day, 1873, he was united in marriage to Elsie Carpenter at Greenwood, Wis. To this union eight children were born, four of which preceded him in death. Two died in infancy. David lived to be five years old and Dima (Mrs. Claude Miller) died a the age of 46.

Among us all he ranked always as a man of culture, refinement, sympathy, a kind neighbor, devoted father and a true friend, and withal a man of heroic mould in bravely meeting the stern requirements and disappointments of life.
Besides an aged wife who resides in Winifred, Mont., he leaves to mourn, fourteen grandchildren, three daughters, Mrs. Newton Bobb of Ashland, Wis., Mrs. Paul Kendall, of Winifred, Mont., Mrs. Beatrice Horn of Windham, Mont., and one son, Percy Marshall of Thorp, with whom he made his home for the past twenty years.

THORP COURIER
Thorp, Clark County, Wi
04/27/1933
He died April 18th, 193, at the age of 88 years and 2 months.

Funeral services were held at the Congregational Church in the town of Reseburg Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Burial in the Sylvan Cemetery.. He was buried at Sylvan Cemetery, at Reseburg, Clark County, WI, USA.

     Kate Stiles was born in 1869 at IL, USA. Age 21 at the 1880 census of CA. She was the daughter of Paschal Pulaski Stiles and Caroline Brown.

     Alfa Stiles was born in 1862 at IL, USA. Age 17 at the 1880 census of CA. She was the daughter of Paschal Pulaski Stiles and Caroline Brown.

     Almira Stiles was born in 1867 at CA, USA. She was the daughter of Paschal Pulaski Stiles and Caroline Brown.

     Gladys E. Murray was born on 5 March 1916 at MI, USA. She married Loren A. Callard, son of Abraham Callard and Alma Etha Dickinson, circa 1935. Gladys E. Murray died on 24 April 2002 at Corunna, Shiawassee County, MI, USA, at age 86. She was buried at West Haven Cemetery, at New Haven Twp, Shiawassee County, MI, USA.

     Christopher Carmack was born circa 1830. He married Mary Ann Stiles, daughter of Samuel Stephens Stiles and Hannah Talma Hendrick, on 26 January 1856 at VT, USA.

     Hannah L. Stiles was born on 8 October 1838 at IL, USA. She was the daughter of Samuel Stephens Stiles and Hannah Talma Hendrick. Hannah L. Stiles married August Perry Carmack on 2 July 1854. Hannah L. Stiles died on 21 April 1863 at Paicines, San Benito County, CA, USA, at age 24.

     August Perry Carmack was born in 1831 at Crawford County, PA, USA. He married Hannah L. Stiles, daughter of Samuel Stephens Stiles and Hannah Talma Hendrick, on 2 July 1854. August Perry Carmack died on 24 August 1871 at Paicines, San Benito County, CA, USA.

     Hannah Rosella (Rose) Carmack was born on 31 July 1855 at McHenry County, IL, USA. She was the daughter of August Perry Carmack and Hannah L. Stiles. Hannah Rosella (Rose) Carmack died on 29 March 1936 at San Benito County, CA, USA, at age 80.

     George Washington Carmack was born on 24 September 1860 at Port Costa, Contra Costa County, CA, USA. He was the son of August Perry Carmack and Hannah L. Stiles. George Washington Carmack married Kate ( Shaaw Tlaa) Mason in 1887 at Canada. George Washington Carmack married Marguerite F. Saftig in 1900 at Olympia, Thurston County, WA, USA. George Washington Carmack died on 5 June 1922 at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at age 61. He was buried at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, at Seattle, King County, WA, USA.

     From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born
September 24, 1860
Died
June 5, 1922
Seattle, Washington

Occupation
Prospector

Known for
With his brother-in-law, credited with making the gold discovery that led to the Klondike Gold Rush

Spouse(s)
Kate Carmack
Marguerite Laimee

Children
Daughter, Graphie Grace Carmack

Parents
August Perry Carmack, Hannah L. Stiles

Relatives
Sister, Rose Watson

George Washington Carmack (September 24, 1860 – June 5, 1922) was a Contra Costa County, California-born prospector in the Yukon. He was originally credited with the discovery of gold that set off the Klondike Gold Rush on August 16, 1896. Today, historians usually give the credit to his Canadian brother-in-law, Skookum Jim Mason.

Carmack's mother died when he was 8 years old and his father when he was 11. His great-grandfather was Abraham Blystone. Carmack briefly served in the United States Marine Corps aboard the USS Wachusetts and in Alaska before deserting in California in 1882 when he was refused leave to visit his sick sister.[2]

Carmack returned to Alaska in 1885 to engage in trading, fishing and trapping.[3] In 1887 he made a common-law marriage to[2] a Tagish First Nation woman who went by the name of Kate
Carmack was not popular with other miners, who nicknamed him "Squaw Man" for his association with native people and "Lyin' George" for his exaggerated claims. Nevertheless, he did find a coal deposit near what is today the village of Carmacks, Yukon which was named after him.

In August 1896, he and Kate were fishing at the mouth of the Klondike River when Skookum Jim, his nephew Dawson Charlie and another nephew found them. Prospector Robert Henderson who had been mining gold on the Indian River, just south of the Klondike, suggested that he should try out Rabbit Creek, now Bonanza Creek, where the gold discovery was made.

The finding of gold made him wealthy and the Carmacks moved to a ranch near Modesto, California and lived with Carmack's sister, Rose Watson (Rose Curtis).
In 1900, he abandoned Kate, moved to Seattle, and married Marguerite P. Laimee in Olympia, Washington. They settled into a twelve room white frame house in Seattle with a garage in the back. Marguerite was a good business woman, and she directed her husband's money into real estate. He owned office buildings, apartment houses, and hotels. He grew fat - to well over two hundred pounds. With the passing years, his fortune multiplied as well.[2]

Yet throughout his life George could not stop looking for gold. He worked several claims in California, on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas, and in the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle. George was determined to find another mother lode and re-create the exciting moment of discovery he had experienced as a young man on Bonanza Creek. George died at age sixty-two, in 1922, while he was working a new claim. He is interred at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park.

Graphie married Marguerite's brother. Together with Rose, Graphie challenged and settled out of court the appointment of Marguerite as administratrix of Carmack's estate.[2]

References[edit source]

1.^ "George Washington Carmack (1860–1922)". Find-A-Grave. Retrieved 2006-08-31.
2.^ a b c d Guide
3.^ Early days in the Klondike, Business. The Globe & Mail, June 10, 1922.
4.^ SHAWW
"Guide to the George W. Carmack Papers". lib.washington.edu. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
"SHAAW TLÁA (Kate Carmack)". canadianmysteries.ca. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
Blum, Howard (2011). The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-46172-8.

     Kate ( Shaaw Tlaa) Mason was born in 1857 at British Columbia, Canada. She married George Washington Carmack, son of August Perry Carmack and Hannah L. Stiles, in 1887 at Canada. Kate ( Shaaw Tlaa) Mason died on 29 March 1920 at Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada. She was buried at Carcross Cemetery, at Carcross, Yukon Census Division, Yukon, Canada.

     SHAAW TLÁA (Kate Carmack)

SHAAW TLÁA (Kate Carmack), Tagish; b. c. 1862 in the vicinity of what is now Bennett Lake, YT./B.C., daughter of Kaachgaawáa, the head of the Tlingit crow clan, and Gus’dutéen, a member of the Tagish wolf clan; m. Kult’ús, and they had one daughter; m. secondly in 1887 George Washington Carmack, and they had one daughter; d. 29 March 1920 in Carcross, Y.T.

Shaaw Tláa, her parents, and her seven sisters and brothers lived in a Tagish village near the present site of Carcross. When she was a young woman, she was married briefly to a Tlingit man named Kult’ús, in a conventional alliance (he was her mother’s brother’s son). Both her husband and her infant daughter died of influenza in Alaska in the early 1880s and Shaaw Tláa returned to her village. Here in 1888 she began living with George Washington Carmack, an American who had formed a packing, hunting, and prospecting partnership the previous year with her brother Skookum Jim [Keish] and her nephew Dawson Charlie [Káa Goox*]. Kate’s union with George served to reinforce the alliance between her male relatives and Carmack.

In the summer of 1889 Kate and George Carmack travelled up the Yukon River to prospect in the Forty Mile region. For the next six years, while George prospected, trapped, and traded along the lower Yukon River, Kate contributed to the meagre family economy by making winter clothing which she sold to other miners. At Fort Selkirk in 1893 their daughter, Graphie Grace Carmack, was born.

In late July 1896 Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie, and another nephew, Koolseen (Patsy Henderson), came looking for the couple, whom they had not seen for several years. They found Kate with her husband and young daughter fishing for salmon at the junction of the Klondike and Yukon rivers. After catching up on family news and helping with the salmon catch, Jim and Charlie set off with George into the Klondike basin to prospect. In mid August, a few miles from the fish camp, they discovered gold on Rabbit (Bonanza) Creek. Within a year, the find had sparked the Klondike gold-rush, which brought tens of thousands of gold seekers to the Yukon and began permanent non-native settlement.

During the winter of 1896–97, although they knew they would soon be rich, Kate and her family had no money. The men spent the winter sinking shafts in the bedrock, while Kate sewed furs into mittens and moccasins and baked bread to sell to other miners, an enterprise that often took in more gold than the men’s mining. Over the next four years, however, the family’s claims produced close to a million dollars of gold dust, and Kate no longer sewed or baked for others.

With wealth came a lifestyle completely unfamiliar to Kate and her Tagish relatives, and difficulties arose. Her relationship with Carmack, having survived 12 lean years, could not withstand the pressures. Alcohol became a problem for her, the marriage failed, and in 1900 George met and married a Dawson prostitute, leaving Kate almost penniless in California. She made several attempts at legal action against him, but tiring of the slowness of non-native justice, she abandoned the suits and returned to live with the Tagish people at Carcross in July 1901. There is no record of any financial settlement from Carmack.

Skookum Jim, who had also severed his ties with Carmack, built Kate a cabin near his own house at Carcross. Her daughter spent several years with her, attending the mission and residential schools at Carcross and Whitehorse run by Bishop William Carpenter Bompas*, before moving permanently to Seattle, Wash. Kate lived out her life in relative obscurity, sewing items for tourists and nursing Jim through his final sickness. She succumbed to an influenza epidemic in 1920.

     Marguerite F. Saftig was born in 1874. She married George Washington Carmack, son of August Perry Carmack and Hannah L. Stiles, in 1900 at Olympia, Thurston County, WA, USA. Marguerite F. Saftig died on 30 January 1942. She was buried at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, at Seattle, King County, WA, USA.

     Graphie Grace Carmack was born on 11 January 1893 at Big Samlon River, Fort Kirk County, Yukon Territory, Canada. She was the daughter of George Washington Carmack and Kate ( Shaaw Tlaa) Mason. Graphie Grace Carmack died on 23 March 1963 at Lodi, San Joaquin County, CA, USA, at age 70. She was buried at Pacific Crest Cemetery, at Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, CA, USA.

     Dora Colburn was born in April 1860 at IL, USA. She was the daughter of George W. Colburn and Harriet M. Stiles.