Edith Henderson, nee Jackson (1883 - 1996)
Edith Jackson was born in Hootchi village, north of Champagne to mother Mary and father Hootchi Jackson. She was one of ten children. Her paternal grandfather, Wun De Tsaw, was a chief at Hootchi. Edith was twenty-three when she married Patsy Henderson in Carcross in 1906. Her older sister Annie was promised to Patsy, but she died so Edith, next in age, became the bride. Edith and her sister Ginnie were the last surviving siblings until 1966 when Ginnie was killed in an automobile accident. Edith was crippled in the same accident and was in hospital until 1970. Before the accident, Edith was trapping in the Little Atlin Lake area and took her two youngest grandsons out to pick berries, fish, sew, bead, tan skins, and hunt. She killed her last moose in 1965 when she was in her 80s.1)