Joseph Gale - Family Life

Family Life

While working for Wyeth out of Fort Hall, Joseph married a Walla Walla Indian woman, Eliza, who was a daughter of Old Chief Joseph (Tu-eka-kas) of the Wallowa Nez Perce and a Walla Walla mother. She may have been named after Eliza Spalding, co-founder of the Protestant mission at Lapwai. Eliza Gale was half sister to Young Chief Joseph (Heinmot Tooyalakekt). Joseph Gale and Eliza's first two children (Francis Ellen and Edward) were born at Fort Hall in 1837 and 1838, three more children were born in the Oregon Territory (Susan, Margaret and Mary), and three more girls (Maria Antonia, Clara and Sabrina) were born in California during the 1850s.