Nate Williams came out with T.C. Van Eaton and helped found Eatonville. Nate married T.C.’s sister, Sara Elizabeth Van Eaton.
They didn’t marry in Eatonville, but instead at the Pine Ridge Agency , south of the Sioux reservation in South Dakota. Their first children were born there too.
Photo courtesy of Rich Williams.
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Eatonville To Rainier 
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