Nancy Osborne Jacobs was a survivor of the 1847 killings at the Whitman Mission, generally referred to as the "Whitman Massacre." She was nine years old at the time. On May 29, 1912, she read a paper at the Pioneer Reunion at Walla Walla, first relating memories of her family's overland journey in 1845 from Henderson County, Illinois to several different settlements in present-day Washington and Oregon, and then her recollections of the events at the Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu on November 29, 1847.
This collection consists of a single item, an undated typescript (14 leaves) with the text of Nancy Jacobs' 1912 paper and a brief introduction written at some point after her death.
This collection is open and available for research use.
[Item Description] Speech by Nancy Osborne Jacobs (transcript), 1912
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection was processed by Cheryl Gunselman.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.