Graphie Gracie Saftig, nee Carmack (1893 - 1963)
	
Graphie Carmack was born at Fort Selkirk to parents Kate Shaaw Tláa and George Carmack. The family lived in the area until 1896 and then moved to the Fortymile River. They were at a fish camp at the mouth of the Klondike River when Graphie’s uncle Jim, Dawson Charlie, and her father discovered the gold that started the Klondike gold rush.((James Albert Johnson, //Carmack of the Klondike.// Epicenter Press and Horsdal & Schubart, 1990: 65-77.)) \\
	
The Carmacks left Dawson near the end of June 1899 and arrived in Seattle in early July.((Deb Vanasse, //Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2016: 175-79.)) After George finished his business dealings, George, Kate, Graphie, and her cousin Mary, travelled to San Francisco and then on to Carmack’s sister’s ranch in San Benito County. Mary and Graphie attended the local school. In April 1900, Carmack returned to Dawson for the spring clean-up while Kate and the girls remained in California.((Deb Vanasse, //Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2016: 183, 184.)) They returned to the Yukon in August 1900 and lived in Carcross near Kate’s brother Skookum Jim. Bishop Bompas had just opened a mission school and Graphie, Mary, and Jim’s daughter Daisy joined five children from Moosehide to be taught by Bompas and Miss Ellis, an Anglican missionary. In 1904, Graphie moved to Whitehorse where she lived with the Anglican minister Isaac Stringer and his wife Sadie and attended the public school. She went with the Stringers to Dawson when the church’s headquarters was moved there from Carcross. When the Stringers left Dawson, Graphie was left in the care of Mrs. Joe Wilson.((Deb Vanasse, //Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2016: 212, 216, 221-222, 225.))
	
In 1909, sixteen-year-old Graphie accepted her father’s invitation to visit his and Marguerite’s home in Seattle and attend the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. She fell in love with Marguerite’s brother, Jacob George Saftig, and they married in June 1910. Their first son was named Ernest Charles plus the Tagish name Kaish (Lone Wolf). Their second child was a daughter named Marguerite and their third was a boy, James George. In 1914, Carmack signed a will that left his estate split equally between his wife and daughter. In 1917, Saftig was out of work, and he brought the family up to Carmack’s fairly successful mining claims near Westville, California. In 1921, Graphie and Jacob had a home in Oakland and Jacob was working as a travelling salesman.((James Albert Johnson, //Carmack of the Klondike.// Epicenter Press and Horsdal & Schubart, 1990: 141-142, 145, 147-148.)) 

George Carmack developed pneumonia in 1922, and he died at the Roycroft Hospital in Vancouver. Marguerite shipped his body to Seattle. Graphie learned of her father’s death in the newspapers, and neither Graphie nor Rose were notified of the funeral. When Marguerite was appointed administrator of the estate, Rose and Graphie contested the appointment and a court-appointed administrator took over. In 1923 the court decided that all of Marguerite’s assets were the community property of Marguerite and George, and that it was worth $150,000. Saftig was again out of work, and he agreed to accept $5,000 in return for getting Graphie to accept a settlement of $5,000. Graphie refused, moved out of their apartment, and divorced him in the next year.  An out-of-court settlement in 1926 awarded Graphie $45,000 in cash, half of which went to her lawyers. Marguerite paid all other fees and had to mortgage her Seattle real estate. Her equity in the estate was reduced to about $100,000. Graphie married a used-car salesman named Couto and they moved to Hollywood. Graphie used the name Grace after this. A year after the marriage, Grace was broke. She divorced Couto and married Raymond Rogers. After he died, she lived at Lodi, California near her daughter and grandchildren.((James Albert Johnson, //Carmack of the Klondike.// Epicenter Press and Horsdal & Schubart, 1990: 151-155.))