A History of Central Washington: including the famous Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan and the Columbia Valleys

Glen · October 14, 2007

This PDF document contains a couple pages from the work: "A History of Central Washington: including the famous Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan and the Columbia Valleys" published in Spokane in 1929. At the bottom of page 234 begins a short biographical sketch of Osta H. (Hamilton) Stuckey of Wenatchee. Osta was born in Waitsburg the daughter of Duron Hamilton and Laura Brunton. In talking about Osta's pioneer heritage the story of her father is told and that of her grandfather Supplina Hamilton (though Supplina is not mentioned by name). The account of Supplina has inaccuracies (he was from Illinois not Iowa and he came West in 1851 not 1852) but it also reveals a new story that I've not heard anywhere else. If there is a core of accuracy to the story it would suggest some new interesting facts: 1) before Supplina entered the Yakima Indian War in 1855/56 as a Linn County, Oregon Volunteer Soldier (in the 1st Regiment of the Oregon Mounted Volunteers) he was working in NE Oregon among the Umatilla Indians as a missionary, 2) there is a story related of him running to a blockhouse to escape the initial attack of the hostile indians. I'm not convinced that the author got Osta's memories correct or that perhaps Osta had the chronology quite right. From all other sources we've assumed Supplina's missionary / preaching began after the war and sometime after he was married in 1858. Supplina and Jane did move to Umatilla County in June of 1861 and lived there until 1866. Supplina gave a detailed chronology of his residences on his Indian War pension papers and specifically mentioned he lived in Linn County until he moved to Umatilla in June of 1861. Anyway, the document is a very interesting short read.

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