Christina
Mounts was born 4 August 1862, Nisqually Indian Reservation, Pierce County,
Washington.
Catherine (McLeod) Mounts was born 6 November 1845 in Steilacoom,
Washington.
John Morgan
Mounts was born 19 June 1868, probably in Pierce County, Washington.
This old
photo found its way into the antiquities trade and was characterized as
being a Nisqually area family. Fortunately, it was recognized, by a dealer,
as being a picture of relatives of a known family still living in the
Nisqually area. The dealer made contact with Albert "Bud" McBride, the great
grandson of Catherine Mounts and grandson of Christina Mounts, and arranged
to have the picture returned to the family.
Catherine
McLeod was the daughter of a Scottish immigrant, John McLeod, who came to
Puget Sound in 1837 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. John McLeod had
ventured across Canada with a group led by John Tod and was among the
survivors of the disastrous boat accident at the Dalles of the Dead near
present-day Revelstoke, British Columbia. Once in place at Fort Nisqually,
John McLeod served the Hudson's Bay Company in several capacities including
stoker on the steamship Beaver and head sheepherder at Steilacoom. Catherine
McLeod's mother was Claquodate, Mary, a daughter of the prominent Cowlitz
chief, Klaput Scanewah. Catherine had a somewhat tumultuous childhood,
seeing her father arrested by order of Governor Isaac Stevens who believed
that a number of Hudson's Bay Company men, who had Indian wives, had been
aiding the enemy in the Puget Sound Indian War. With her father being held
at Fort Montgomery, near present day Spanaway, Catherine watched from a
hiding place in the family's barn as Territorial volunteers ransacked their
farm, killed their milk cow and roasted it over an open fire.
Catherine
married Daniel Mounts and, together, they had ten children. Catherine
died on 20 August 1933, at age 87.
Christina
Mounts married George Gilmore McAllister and had four children: Ruby Georgia
McAllister, Edward James McAllister, Grover George McAllister, and Pauline
Leona
McAllister.
John Mounts
married Elizabeth Jensen and had two children: Daniel Morgan Mounts and
Samuel Jay Mounts.
Ancestors
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