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Taswatha “Ellen” Chenowith Underwood

Birth	:	1838 Oregon, USA
Death	:	29 Nov 1906
Burial	:	Mount Avon Cemetery, Rochester, Oakland County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.6772003, -83.1421967
Description	:	"The Oregonian, Portland, OR., November 26, 1906, page 4 "Dead of the Northwest" MRS. AMOS UNDERWOOD HOOD RIVER, Or. Nov. 25. – (Special) -- Mrs. Amos Underwood, wife of the oldest pioneer in this section, died at her home in Underwood yesterday and was buried here today. Mrs. Underwood was a full-blooded Indian woman and was renowned throughout the country for sagacity. In company with her husband she established her home across the river long before there was any settlement or anyone living at Hood River. She is survived by her husband who is in... Read More	"The Oregonian, Portland, OR., November 26, 1906, page 4 "Dead of the Northwest" MRS. AMOS UNDERWOOD HOOD RIVER, Or. Nov. 25. – (Special) -- Mrs. Amos Underwood, wife of the oldest pioneer in this section, died at her home in Underwood yesterday and was buried here today. Mrs. Underwood was a full-blooded Indian woman and was renowned throughout the country for sagacity. In company with her husband she established her home across the river long before there was any settlement or anyone living at Hood River. She is survived by her husband who is in feeble health and was unable to attend the funeral. The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., December 23, 1906, Ellen Chenowith Underwood Born Wy-Yac-Eck, Cascade Falls, Oregon. Daughter of Chief We-la-wa Chenewuth and Mum-shum-sie (Mary Virginia) Following from Ellen's granddaughter Mary Olson - 1906: Ellen Chenowith Underwood was 68 years old at the time of her death. She was the last of four children, there having been two girls and two boys. One son died at an early age, while the second son succeeded his father and took the duty as chief, and the name of Chenowith, the name handed down for generations, as in those days none but the descendents of the chief could take his name, position and dignity. This family must keep up the royal blood. They should marry none but the high cast. The eldest living son should succeed the father. The son, Chenowith, died in 1880. His mother, who lived a widow, died two months before him. A sister,… missing text….. organized by the family during the early days, when so much trouble and misunderstanding existed between Beside her own children those living are a nephew, Joseph Thomas, a neice, Margaret Chenowith Brown, a cousin, John Slonita, and one second cousin, Peter Corbett, a grandson of her uncle, Colatchen. There are quite a number of relatives who feel the loss of mother mostly keenly, for she was a mother to them all. Ellen never cared to talk about the sad loss of her father, and at times when she was induced to give an account of the event it deeply affected her. The same was noted in grandmother, and in fact every member of the family. They bitterly upbraided the Klickitat and Yakimas for causing trouble which was the cause of the head of the Cascade tribe being executed, with his favorite servant and five cousins and nephews, one a nephew of his wife, while his family watched the execution. His son was held prisoner. This was the wild, barbarous act and work of our good United States government system, which reigned in the Pacific Coast in the 50s. The Chenowith family never forgot the treatment they received at the hands of the whites, whom they had always befriended, and gave shelter, and always felt bitterly toward those who caused trouble. They never forgave the Yakimas, who caused their loss of father and home, yes, for they lost their homes and about all they had. The soldiers or Klickitats set fire to the houses and robbed them of all valuables, as the little band of Cascades, were placed on Government Island, and held prisoners, where they sat and watched their homes go up in smoke, and they with only what they wore, and each holding some little keepsake or valuable only.

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Latitude: 42.6772003
Longitude: -83.1421967

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Capt Amos Underwood

(1833 - 1917)

Children

Isabelle Lear Underwood

(1857 - 1936)

Jefferson “Jeff” Underwood

(1862 - 1881)

Mary Virginia Underwood Lane

(1864 - 1950)

John Underwood

(1868 - 1884)

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