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BORN ON COWLITZ PRAIRIE IN LEWIS COUNTY, ON MARCH 14, 1842. HER FATHER WAS SENT TO SITKA, ALASKA ALONG THE STIKIUM RIVER, WHERE THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY HAD A POST. HE TOOK HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS JOSEPHINE AND ELIZABETH ALONG. THEY STAYED THERE A FEW YEARS AND THEN RETURNED TO FORT NISQUALLY, PIERCE COUNTY. WHILE THERE HER MOTHER DIED OF SMALL POX. THE TWO DAUGHTERS HAD IT TOO BUT WERE SAVED. JOSEPHINE WAS ABOUT 4 AND ELIZABETH 3. MRS. TOLMIE TOOK AN INTEREST IN THE TWO GIRLS AND HAD THEIR FATHER TAKE THEM TO VICTORIA B.C., WHE WAS TO EDUCATE THE TWO GIRLS UT NEVER DID. JOSEPHINE WAS SO VERY HOMESICK SHE CRIED ALL THE WHILE, SO THEY HAD TO SEND HER BACK TO HER FATHER.

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SHE MADE HER HOME WITH MRS. FRANCIS GRAVILL UNTIL SHE MARRIED AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN.

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JOSEPHINE WAS MARRIED AT MRS. GRAVELL'S HOME ABOUT TWO MILES SOUTH OF ROY, WASHINGTON ON NOVEMBER 26, 1857.

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AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED THEY WENT TO THEIR PLACE NEAR CLOVER CREEK JOINING THE CHRISTOPHER MAHAN FARM. THEY LIVED THERE FOR A FEW YEARS AND THEN SOLD. THEY THEN MOVED NEAR SPANAWAY ON A PREEMPTION CLAIM WHERE SEVERAL OF THEIR CHILDREN WERE BORN. ONE DIED AT THE AGE OF ELEVEN YEARS.

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JOSEPHINE HELPED CLEAR LAND WITH HER HUSBAND AND WORKED HARD ALL HER LIFE. BESIDES HER OWN WORK SHE MADE TIME TO OFFER HER SERVICES TO TOHER WOMEN AS MID-WIFE. SHE ALSO HELPED TAKE CARE OF THE ONES WHO PASSED AWAY AS THEY HAD NO UNDERTAKERS THOSE DAYS. SHE WAS A STRONG AND HEALTHY WOMAN, BUT WHEN SICKNESS CAME IN LATER YEARS - PNEUMONIA AND LEAKAGE OF THE HEART - SHE PASSED AWAY ON MAY 19, 1919.

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JOSEPHINE SOLD HER PLACE AFTER SICKNESS AND THE DEATH OF BARTHOLOMEW AND STAYED WITH HER DAUGHTER MRS. JOHN NORTHOVER, UNTIL HER DEATH.

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BURIED IN CALVARY CEMETERY