She was the daughter of Freeman Knowles and Alice Graham Knowles, the family moved to NE and in 1888 to South Dakota where her father was a newspaper publisher and well known Populist/Socialist politician
She married Jesse Teague and they had four children, Freeman, Ellery, Alice and Jewell. After a divorce she married in 1929 Edward McGivern. She was survived by her husband, a daughter, Alice, Mrs WH Treweek of Great Falls, Freeman Teague of Portland OR, Jewell Teague of Portland Or and Bruce Teague of Great Falls MT.
Her obituary says she was well known as a pistol expert. She was a member of Eastern Star, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Episcopal Church.
She wrote a letter to a newspaper telling this story from her time in Deadwood SD
"It is with much interest that I have read your account of "Calamity Jane" in the Democrat News of Sunday Jan 12.
Deadwood is my old home town and I have always been proud of the fond memories it brings me.
I had a personal acquaintance with
"Calamity Jane" a the time of her return to Deadwood in 1895. May father Freeman Knowles was editor of the Deadwood Daily Independent at that time and I was printer on the paper. Jane came into the our office and introduced herself and shook hands with all of us. We gave her a big write up that day, and he was very much pleased with it. She met lots of her old-time friends and seemed happy to be among them.
I have visited Deadwood almost every year since leaving there ( twenty years ago) and I always make a trip to Mt Moriah where "Calamity Jane" and "Wild Bill Hickock" are buried side by side.
She didn't mention that both of her parents are buried not far from them!
She married Jesse Teague and they had four children, Freeman, Ellery, Alice and Jewell. After a divorce she married in 1929 Edward McGivern. She was survived by her husband, a daughter, Alice, Mrs WH Treweek of Great Falls, Freeman Teague of Portland OR, Jewell Teague of Portland Or and Bruce Teague of Great Falls MT.
Her obituary says she was well known as a pistol expert. She was a member of Eastern Star, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Episcopal Church.
She wrote a letter to a newspaper telling this story from her time in Deadwood SD
"It is with much interest that I have read your account of "Calamity Jane" in the Democrat News of Sunday Jan 12.
Deadwood is my old home town and I have always been proud of the fond memories it brings me.
I had a personal acquaintance with
"Calamity Jane" a the time of her return to Deadwood in 1895. May father Freeman Knowles was editor of the Deadwood Daily Independent at that time and I was printer on the paper. Jane came into the our office and introduced herself and shook hands with all of us. We gave her a big write up that day, and he was very much pleased with it. She met lots of her old-time friends and seemed happy to be among them.
I have visited Deadwood almost every year since leaving there ( twenty years ago) and I always make a trip to Mt Moriah where "Calamity Jane" and "Wild Bill Hickock" are buried side by side.
She didn't mention that both of her parents are buried not far from them!
She was the daughter of Freeman Knowles and Alice Graham Knowles, the family moved to NE and in 1888 to South Dakota where her father was a newspaper publisher and well known Populist/Socialist politician
She married Jesse Teague and they had four children, Freeman, Ellery, Alice and Jewell. After a divorce she married in 1929 Edward McGivern. She was survived by her husband, a daughter, Alice, Mrs WH Treweek of Great Falls, Freeman Teague of Portland OR, Jewell Teague of Portland Or and Bruce Teague of Great Falls MT.
Her obituary says she was well known as a pistol expert. She was a member of Eastern Star, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Episcopal Church.
She wrote a letter to a newspaper telling this story from her time in Deadwood SD
"It is with much interest that I have read your account of "Calamity Jane" in the Democrat News of Sunday Jan 12.
Deadwood is my old home town and I have always been proud of the fond memories it brings me.
I had a personal acquaintance with
"Calamity Jane" a the time of her return to Deadwood in 1895. May father Freeman Knowles was editor of the Deadwood Daily Independent at that time and I was printer on the paper. Jane came into the our office and introduced herself and shook hands with all of us. We gave her a big write up that day, and he was very much pleased with it. She met lots of her old-time friends and seemed happy to be among them.
I have visited Deadwood almost every year since leaving there ( twenty years ago) and I always make a trip to Mt Moriah where "Calamity Jane" and "Wild Bill Hickock" are buried side by side.
She didn't mention that both of her parents are buried not far from them!
She married Jesse Teague and they had four children, Freeman, Ellery, Alice and Jewell. After a divorce she married in 1929 Edward McGivern. She was survived by her husband, a daughter, Alice, Mrs WH Treweek of Great Falls, Freeman Teague of Portland OR, Jewell Teague of Portland Or and Bruce Teague of Great Falls MT.
Her obituary says she was well known as a pistol expert. She was a member of Eastern Star, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Episcopal Church.
She wrote a letter to a newspaper telling this story from her time in Deadwood SD
"It is with much interest that I have read your account of "Calamity Jane" in the Democrat News of Sunday Jan 12.
Deadwood is my old home town and I have always been proud of the fond memories it brings me.
I had a personal acquaintance with
"Calamity Jane" a the time of her return to Deadwood in 1895. May father Freeman Knowles was editor of the Deadwood Daily Independent at that time and I was printer on the paper. Jane came into the our office and introduced herself and shook hands with all of us. We gave her a big write up that day, and he was very much pleased with it. She met lots of her old-time friends and seemed happy to be among them.
I have visited Deadwood almost every year since leaving there ( twenty years ago) and I always make a trip to Mt Moriah where "Calamity Jane" and "Wild Bill Hickock" are buried side by side.
She didn't mention that both of her parents are buried not far from them!
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