Person:Elizabeth Beavers (3)

Elizabeth suffered from a digestive disorder which was alleviated by camping vacations in Michigan. Due to the near impossibility of making a living in the wilds of Michigan, Samuel and Elizabeth Harvey decided he should seek a location for his family in the fast growing Alaskan Territory to which gold seekers were flocking, and which seemed to offer excellent possibilities for her improved health.

Mr. Harvey first operated a ferry on the approach to the Chilcoot Pass, the main but very dangerous route to the Klondike. He built a stout cabin and had it well stocked with furs in preparation for his wife and children, when he received word by the slow mail, that she had died many months previously and that his children were scattered.

From a history of daughter Ruth, author unknown, in the Harvey file at the Henry County Museum & Research Center, New Castle, IN, Sept. 2000.

1. ↑ History of Henry County Indiana- 1884, Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co.
   Page 760.