Jim Fox (1860 – 1964)

Jim Fox, better known as Grandpa Fox, was born in the Nisutlin River area. He packed over the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike stampede. He was married in the Taku River area and his fourth child was born in Skagway in 1897. He and his wife had fourteen children and she died in 1960 at the age of eighty-six. Jim told stories of chopping wood with a stone axe and using a muzzle loader to hunt. His funeral was conducted by Father Bouchler [Mouchet?] in the Teslin Catholic Church and was one of the largest ever held in Teslin. He is survived by daughters Maggie, Olive, Mable, and Maud, and son Billie, all of Teslin. He had forty grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren.¹⁾