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.
