Caregivers or Wives? Re-evaluating Allotment Records and Household Dynamics (Part three)
Caregivers or Wives? Re-evaluating Allotment Records and Household Dynamics (Part three) ← Part Two: In Defense of Solomon Riggs: Re-examining the 1913 Siletz Agency Letter | Part Four: Coming Soon → 1913 Letter from Family Search Another section of this 1913 letter that immediately stood out was the list typed at the end naming Solomon’s wives: Ann McKye, Nancy Boggs, Mary Pickett, Sally Pierce, her sister Mary, and Jennie. As a descendant through Jennie McKay, this part of the document is deeply persona l. I have spent time researching Jennie’s life and tracing her story, but until coming across th is letter, I had never heard most of these other names before. Seeing them listed together raised immediate questions: Did these women come with Chief Solomon from the Umpqua region during the forced removal of the 1850s, or were these relationships formed after arriving at the Grand Ronde Reservation? Furthermore, given that this letter was written in 1913, how were these p...
