15. Ada Brackett Schwatka Grave

15. Ada Brackett Schwatka (1854-1930), granddaughter of James and Eliza Brackett of Rock Island (by way of Cherry Hill, New York) and niece of their youngest son, Albert, learned to love excitement. Albert, who had fought in the Indian wars, introducedAda to his friend, Lt. Frederick Schwatka, a world-famous explorer returning from Alaska, and the two fell in love. They were married immediately at the vine-covered mansion on Eleventh Street, and Ada went with her husband on all the adventures that followed, save one. That was the day he died at age 43 in Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Schwatka, now determined to go on with the work they had done together, continued to travel on her own for another 40 years.

Next stops on the tour:

1. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial
2. Ben Harper Lot
3. Burial Plots of Ransom R. and Philander Cable
4. Grave of Philemon Mitchell
5. Denkmann Family Mausoleum
6. Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Thomas B. Davis, Samuel S. Davis Lots
7. Thomas B. Davis Grave
8. John Volk Grave
9. William Tenges Monument
10. Captain A. J. Whitney Lot
11. William R. Little Headstone
12. Captain David M. Tipton Grave
13. Dean Tyler Robinson Monument
14. Charles Buford Grave
15. Ada Brackett Schwatka Grave
16. C.C. Knell Grave
17. General William Hoffman Grave
18. Colonel John Buford Monument
19. Captain John Wilson Grave
20. Eddie & Josie Dimick Monument
21. William Morrison Grave
22. Richard Mansill Monument
23. Colonel Davenport, Margaret Davenport, Bailey Davenport, Susan Lewis Goldsmith Plot
24. Benjamin Dann Walsh Grave
25. Minnie Potter Grave
26. Edward Burrall, Jr. Grave
27. William Harte Monument