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Missionary Narcissa Whitman was recorded to be the first white woman to cross the Rockies on the Oregon Trail. She and her husband Dr. Marcus Whitman settled near Walla Walla, Washington. In 1839, she stood grief-stricken at the river's edge holding her two-year-old daughter Alice, who had gone to the river to get two cups of water, fell in, and drowned. As she held her lifeless child, Narcissa cried, "Thy will be done, not mine." Another tragedy recalled with this loss was the Glendive Sullivan family, who, along with all six of their children, drowned in the 1899 flood when the frozen river and bridge went out.
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