James Tilton Pickett
This file appears in: The Unknown Mrs. Pickett
Carte-de-visite photograph. Oval-shaped head and shoulders portrait of a young man, James Tilton Pickett, at about age 20. He is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and dark tie. His hair is short and he has a very faint mustache.
This file appears in: The Unknown Mrs. Pickett
The Unknown Mrs. Pickett – The soon-to-be famous George Pickett married a Native woman in 1857--but we do not know a lot about her, not even her name
George Pickett arrived in the Pacific Northwest a widower, his first wife having died in childbirth when he was stationed in Texas. He was stationed at Fort Bellingham when, in 1857, he married the second Mrs. Pickett, a Haida teenager. Such a…