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Zach Ingalls Eagle Scout
Zach Ingalls takes the pledge for Eagle Scout June 10,
2008 at the Eatonville Baptist Church. This home-schooled
young man worked hard on an important Eagle
Scout project, renovating the Indian Cemetery where
legendary Indian, Soo-Too-Lick aka Indian Henry is
buried along with other members of his tribe. Thanks to Boy Scouts Indian Burial Ground Now Looks Wonderful... Before
In a photo taken last fall, Micah, Savannah, Harrison, Tucker and
Zach Ingalls stood at the monument to Indian
Henry at his neglected graveyard before Zach's Eagle Scout project to
restore and improve the site. After...
June 19, 2005: The same view today after two local Eagle Scout candidates Zach Ingalls and Ryan Ames completed their total makeover of the little Indian cemetery. Zach and Ryan planned and completed their projects to restore, improve and beautify the site. At last those buried in the small cemetery have the respect they deserve. There is a string of beads hanging from the monument, a small bowl which has been sitting empty on the monument now if half full of coins. Also, in the Native tradition someone has left a small amount of tobacco. The Indians Finally Have Crosses...
Gleaming white crosses built, and placed, by Ryan Ames, stand at the site of fourteen graves located by the use of ground-penetrating sonar used by the Puyallup Tribe. The Scouts Created an Inviting Entrance...
Sturdy,
attractive benches
built by Ryan and a colorful flower planter now provide an inviting
entrance for visitors to the Mashell Prairie Indian Cemetery. The
benches are set deep into the ground. More Additions at Indian Cemetery...
Boy Scout Ryan Ames, 17, worked hard along with family and friends to prepare the small Indian Cemetery for planting grass seed. Ryan has made restoring parts of the cemetery his Eagle Scout project.
by Bob Walter
Saturday, May
21, the Shaker Church Indian Cemetery, on Mashell Prairie Road west of
Eatonville, was once again a beehive of activity, culminating
yet another Eagle Scout project benefiting historic preservation in
South Pierce County. A Beehive of Activity at Indian Burial Ground Over the Weekend...
Indian Cemetery
Mapped
May
1, 2005: by Dixie A. Walter - Left to right: in back row Jim
Wescott, Puyallup Indian Tribe Projects Engineer, Zach Ingalls,
Boy Scout, Jack Kendall, Eddie Butler, Puyallup Indian Tribe caretaker
for tribal cemeteries, front row Harrison Ingalls and Kemp
Garcia. In late April members of the Puyallup Indian Tribe and
others visited the small Indian Cemetery on Mashell Prairie Road as
Garcia used ground penetrating radar (GPR) to locate burials in the
cemetery. The project is sponsored by the Puyallup Tribe. (The Town of
Eatonville has, through the years, brought up the idea of mapping the
local cemetery.) Today Meets Yesterday...
Nestled among ferns and flowers and run by a generator, technology interprets
the past. Kemp Garcia points to a white spot identified as a
burial during the mapping of Indian Henry's Burial Ground. Garcia's
business, Underground Detection Services, Corp., also locates such
varied underground conditions and objects as water leaks, sewer
lines, septic tanks, gas leaks, electrical faults and much more. Letter to the Editor:Indian Henry Fan in Alaska May 6, 2005 To the editor:
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the articles on the restoration of
the Old Shaker Cemetery and site of Indian Henry's grave.
Monica Ingalls has kept me updated on each new event and each
article that is published.
I have been involved in this project from the beginning, even
though I live in the middle of Alaska. My sister, Nona
Stephenson, who lives off Stringtown Road, sent me some photos
several years ago of Indian Henry's monument. She knew that I, as
the family genealogist, was interested in cemeteries. Nona was
concerned that the old Shaker cemetery had fallen into such
disrepair - no-one was tending to it anymore, as they had in
previous years.
I contacted the Washington State Cemetery Association and learned
that they were not aware of the site. I
sent them the
information I had, and they put the information on a the web.
Zach Ingalls, looking for a project, came across my website (http://users.rootsweb.com/~wapierce/indianhenry.htm),
and you know the rest of the story.
Monica Ingalls plans to contact my sister, who is now 80 years old,
and take her to see the results of the project she started when
she sent me the photograph.
My sister, Nona's a long-time Tacoma-Spanaway resident (grew
up in Fern Hill, lived many years next to the Spanaway
Airport). She and her husband, Mack, moved to Eatonville years ago
and built a cabin off Stringtown Road. Mack died last
year, and Nona now lives alone. She's 80, but gets around
better than I do at 60!
I went to Bethel High School, and both my husband and I
have/had family living in Eatonville, so Eatonville has
always been part of "home" to me.
Would you have any objection if I used part of your article and
some of the photos for our local Fairbanks Genealogical
Society Newsletter? I am Vice-President and editor of the
newsletter. We have a circulation of about 30. Our
group is becoming involved in cemetery preservation and
restoration here in Interior Alaska, and I think the information
on the ground penetrating radar would be especially of interest to
our folks. We are hoping to do some restoration of old cemeteries
in abandoned gold mining towns in the Fairbanks area. Also, do you
have a contact e-mail, address or phone number for Kemp Garcia?
We would be interested in learning more about how this GPR works.
Thank
you for your wonderful coverage of this project. I look
forward to watching it continue as Ryan Ames begins his part of
the project.
Sue Renkert
Fairbanks, Alaska, formerly of Tacoma
Soo-Too-Lick "Indian Henry" Cemetery Gets a Facelift...
Zach Ingalls’ Eagle Scout Project to clean up and spruce up the little Indian Cemetery on Mashell Prairie Road is nearing completion. Zach, friends and family worked busily Saturday March 12. Zach is holding the piece of wood while Chris McNicol lends a hand. Zach's dad, Brian carries equipment at left.
by Bob Walter
There
was beehive of activity Saturday morning at the Shaker Church Indian
Cemetery out on Mashell Prairie Road. The gravesite of Indian
Henry, friend and guide of the early white settlers and adventurers in
the late 1800‘s, was getting a facelift, thanks to Zach Ingalls and
the supporting cast of his Eagle Scout project.
The quiet little plot on Mashell Prairie Road has at times been all but forgotten. The last couple of weekends the plot has been transformed. The owner of the surrounding property, Bob Henrickson, did some land clearing, and has been very supportive of the project. Last weekend the fence post holes were dug and the poles set in concrete. Gas generators hummed, a table saw whined, and an air hammer popped. Dukeyboys, Inc. supplied lumber, and the expertise of one of its expert fence builders, Zach’s dad Brian. When asked what a fence project like this would cost on the market, Brian offered some quick numbers: 220 feet of fence, at the going rate of $18 per foot. That would make the fence alone equivalent to about a $4,000 home improvement project. Gravel was being donated and delivered by Harry Hart, Washington Rock Quarries in Kapowsin. The topsoil was coming from Barker Enterprises in Sumner. Lowe’s Home Improvement also donated materials. $800 in cash has been donated, over $300 of it from Zach’s Snowman Soup Mug sales. Before, blackberry vines crowded the short, wire fence that had surrounded the square plot, a boulder marker with an engraved granite plaque standing in the center of it. By late morning Saturday, March 12, Zach’s team was installing the two-by-four rails to which the pickets would be attached. A large fir tree toward the south corner shades the plot. Everyone was having fun and working together. Ed Miller, the troop’s advisor, was there helping cut the pickets. Zach’s sister, Micah, was handing him the rails to measure and mark for cutting. Eagle scout Tony Wells and Tyler Zlatkus hoisted one of the two, heavy, cemetery sign poles, placed it in its new hole, and held a carpenter’s level against it. Ray Fulk, supervising the crew working at the front of the plot, was visibly ecstatic about how people working together can do so much. The large cemetery sign was being moved closer to the plot to make room for a visitor parking area. Several huge boulders slowed, but did not deter, the boys digging two large, deep holes for the massive, treated, 8” diameter sign poles. Meanwhile, working along the fence were Chris McNicol, Caleb Ames, Kyle Litzenberger, John Ames and Steven Wells. As they worked, Zach’s mom Monica, who has developed a passionate interest in preserving this historical setting, looked to the future, talking of other possible Eagle scout projects to help keep this cemetery protected and beautified. She even has a message in to Nels Bjarke of the Fern Hill Historical Society, who was protecting and passing on the story of Indian Henry and the people of the upper Nisqually well over 50 years ago. After all their hard work the group enjoyed a bar-b-que at the site. Micah and Savannah Ingalls cooked forty hamburgers and hot dogs "all by themselves" for the hungry workers. The Monument will be Repaired...
The granite marker at the cemetery says, "Indian Henry, Soo-Too-Lick,
1825-1895; Silver Lake 4H Club; Standard Oil Company; Dedicated
1975." Indian Henry helped town founder T. C. Van Eaton and other
pioneers and local legend says he is buried at the site pictured.
However, there is no proof this is his final resting place. But it
doesn't matter to the folks fixing up the cemetery, his spirit lingers
on the Mashell Prairie where he and his tribe made their home. Scout Throws Himself into His Work...
This young man, Eagle Scout Tony Wells, threw himself bodily into the project. He is encouraged by Ray Fulk, Steven Wells and Kyle Litzenberger. To view "before" photos of the cemetery please below.
Local Boy Chooses Indian Henry's Cemetery for Eagle Scout Project...
The granite plaque on this stone monument reads: "Indian Henry, Soo-Too-Lick, 1825-1895; Silver Lake 4H Club; Standard Oil Company; Dedicated 1975." Someone recently placed a necklace of beads, cowrie shells and a black feather on the monument.
by Bob Walter
Out at
the end of Mashell Prairie Road, high above the confluence of the
Mashell and Nisqually Rivers, sits the tiny Shaker Church Indian
Cemetery. Indian Henry, friend to the white settlers and travelers in
the late 19th Century, is believed to be buried here, along with an
unknown number of other deceased residents of the village at Mashell
Prairie. Boy Scout Zach Ingalls...
Zach Ingalls
will soon begin to help preserve Indian Henry's Memory. Soo-Too-Lick is Believed to be Buried at this Tiny Site...
Soo-Too-Lick named "Indian Henry" by a Tacoma pioneer, Henry
Winsor, lived from 1825 to 1895.
Historians aren't sure which
tribe he belonged to, he has variously been thought to have been a
Klickitat, Nisqually or Cowlitz. At one time there was an Indian
village about five miles outside of Eatonville where the Mashell River
meets the Nisqually. The Ingalls Clan at the Cemetery
Left to right: Micah, Savannah, Harrison, Tucker and Zach. The family
found this cemetery overgrown and semi-abandoned. Later someone
did cut the dead grass. A
Broken Indian Head Tells the Tale of
At one point someone placed a ceramic Indian head and bowl on the monument at the Mashell Prairie Cemetery. The bowl is still intact but the head has been smashed by vandals. Indian Monument with Flowers...
Soo-Too-Lick and other natives knew "The Mountain" well and
it was Soo-Too-Lick who guided the James Longmire party to what we
now call Mount Rainier. The Indians have several names for Rainier,
Takhoma, Tahoma being two. All the name variations meant "big
mountain" or "snowy peak." Mount Rainier's Indian
Henry's Hunting Ground is a popular 13 mile trail and wilderness
camping area. It takes eight hours to hike the trail round-trip. Bethel Students Seek Information about Mashell Massacre of 1856...
The
granite plaque on this stone monument reads: "Indian Henry, Soo-Too-Lick,
1825-1895; Silver Lake 4H Club; Standard Oil Company; Dedicated
1975." Someone placed a necklace of beads, cowrie shells
and a black feather on the monument. Ninth Grade Honors Class Researching Tragic Indian Massacre...
by Bob Walter Abbi
Wonacott, granddaughter of Clair Daly, daughter of Lois Daly Brown,
and teacher of the Honors Class for grade 9 at Bethel Junior
High, visited with South Pierce County Historical Society members
attending the April meeting Sunday, April 22 at the Eatonville
Library meeting room. During the Indian Wars of 1855-56, a volunteer militia led by Captain Hamilton Maxon snuck up on a small village of women, children and two elderly men, and slaughtered them all, except perhaps any who may have been able to swim or run away, or might have been out foraging or attending to some other task or pastime. Maxon's Washington Mounted Rifles had been recruited from near Vancouver on the Columbia, and commissioned by Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens to sweep the upper Nisqually and Puyallup of hostile Indians, which to Stevens meant virtually all Indians. Murray Morgan's book, Puget's Sound, which relates the surprise attack, is just one of many sources the students have researched. Students Find Knowledge in 1856 Newspaper
The students discovered an April 11, 1856 newspaper article in
“The Pioneer Democrat” of Olympia, about the massacre.
They were also able to conduct an interview with well-known, longtime
Northwest historian and author, Cecilia Svinth Carpenter, who related
the story of the incident in her book, “Drums Remembered.”
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