Alice Clarissa Whitman

The Cayuse called her “Cayuse Te-mi” (Cayuse girl) because she was born on Cayuse land. Some historians see her as a potential bridge between the two cultures.

On March 14, 1837, on her twenty-ninth birthday, Narcissa gave birth to the first white American born in Oregon Country. Marcus and Narcissa named their daughter Alice Clarissa after her two grandmothers, and she would be their only natural child. Unfortunately, Alice drowned in the Walla Walla River on June 23, 1839. Unattended for only a few moments, she had gone down to the river bank to fill her cup with water and fell in. Though her body was found shortly after she had fallen in, all attempts to revive her failed [1]

Sources

1. Allen, Opal Sweazea. Narcissa Whitman: An Historical Biography. Binfords & Mort, 1959.

Links

• http://www.nps.gov/whmi/historyculture/marcus-biography.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissa_Whitman

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