Pictured here are Nancy Scott Hunt Smith and her daughter, Mandana Smith Kimsey Bush. Mandana was a widow in Oregon when she married Tumwater resident William Owen Bush, son of settlers George and Isabella James Bush. W.O. Bush was a noted agriculturist and was Washington’s first mixed-race legislator.
Undated photograph, probably 1870s, Washington State Archives, State Library Photograph collection, image AR-07809001-ph004411
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2022