JANE GRAHAM
JANE GRAHAM WELLS AND HER FAMILY
Jane Graham Wells, my mother, was born on St. Peters River, Minnesota territory, in 1804. She was the daughter of Duncan Graham and Susan Pennishon, the Gray Huckleberry Woman, who was the granddaughter of Wapasha I, chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux. She was thus a descendant of Opechancanough, brother of Powatan and uncle of Pocahontas.
Jane Graham was married to James Wells, my father, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, September 12, 1836. To this union ten children were born
Jane was an expert marksman, supposedly even a better marksman than her husband. After her husband’s death she moved, with her four youngest children, (Wallace, Aaron, Agnes, and myself, Philip) to a farm near Wells Lake. The home was destroyed by fire in 1865, after which the family separated. Jane went to live with Mrs. Lucy DuLac, whose farm adjoined the Graham farm. Jane died of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight.
This information is taken from North Dakota History. Ninety-Six Years Among the Indians, by Philip F. Wells as told to Thomas E. O’Dell.
JANE GRAHAM WELLS AND HER FAMILY
Jane Graham Wells, my mother, was born on St. Peters River, Minnesota territory, in 1804. She was the daughter of Duncan Graham and Susan Pennishon, the Gray Huckleberry Woman, who was the granddaughter of Wapasha I, chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux. She was thus a descendant of Opechancanough, brother of Powatan and uncle of Pocahontas.
Jane Graham was married to James Wells, my father, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, September 12, 1836. To this union ten children were born
Jane was an expert marksman, supposedly even a better marksman than her husband. After her husband’s death she moved, with her four youngest children, (Wallace, Aaron, Agnes, and myself, Philip) to a farm near Wells Lake. The home was destroyed by fire in 1865, after which the family separated. Jane went to live with Mrs. Lucy DuLac, whose farm adjoined the Graham farm. Jane died of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight.
This information is taken from North Dakota History. Ninety-Six Years Among the Indians, by Philip F. Wells as told to Thomas E. O’Dell.
JANE GRAHAM
JANE GRAHAM WELLS AND HER FAMILY
Jane Graham Wells, my mother, was born on St. Peters River, Minnesota territory, in 1804. She was the daughter of Duncan Graham and Susan Pennishon, the Gray Huckleberry Woman, who was the granddaughter of Wapasha I, chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux. She was thus a descendant of Opechancanough, brother of Powatan and uncle of Pocahontas.
Jane Graham was married to James Wells, my father, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, September 12, 1836. To this union ten children were born
Jane was an expert marksman, supposedly even a better marksman than her husband. After her husband’s death she moved, with her four youngest children, (Wallace, Aaron, Agnes, and myself, Philip) to a farm near Wells Lake. The home was destroyed by fire in 1865, after which the family separated. Jane went to live with Mrs. Lucy DuLac, whose farm adjoined the Graham farm. Jane died of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight.
This information is taken from North Dakota History. Ninety-Six Years Among the Indians, by Philip F. Wells as told to Thomas E. O’Dell.
JANE GRAHAM WELLS AND HER FAMILY
Jane Graham Wells, my mother, was born on St. Peters River, Minnesota territory, in 1804. She was the daughter of Duncan Graham and Susan Pennishon, the Gray Huckleberry Woman, who was the granddaughter of Wapasha I, chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux. She was thus a descendant of Opechancanough, brother of Powatan and uncle of Pocahontas.
Jane Graham was married to James Wells, my father, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, September 12, 1836. To this union ten children were born
Jane was an expert marksman, supposedly even a better marksman than her husband. After her husband’s death she moved, with her four youngest children, (Wallace, Aaron, Agnes, and myself, Philip) to a farm near Wells Lake. The home was destroyed by fire in 1865, after which the family separated. Jane went to live with Mrs. Lucy DuLac, whose farm adjoined the Graham farm. Jane died of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight.
This information is taken from North Dakota History. Ninety-Six Years Among the Indians, by Philip F. Wells as told to Thomas E. O’Dell.
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