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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 Abt 1840 - Aft 1920 (~ 81 years)
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| Name |
Amelia Munro |
| Born |
Abt 1830-1840 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Aft 1920 |
| Person ID |
I30855 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
27 May 2001 |
| Father |
Hugh Munro, Jr., b. 25 Aug 1799, L'assumption, Montcalm Co., Quebec, Canada  , d. 1896, Browning, Glacier Co., MT Blackfoot, Indian Res (Age 96 years) |
| Mother |
Sinopah Kit Fox Woman, b. 1796-1798, Dakota Territory , d. Abt 1880, , , , Canada (Age 82 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1820 |
Northwest Terr |
| Family ID |
F10648 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Thomas Andrew Jackson, b. Abt 1815, , , Virginia, USA , d. Abt 1876 (Age ~ 61 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1855 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Robert Jackson, b. Abt 1854, Fort Benton, Dakota Territory , d. Yes, date unknown |
| + | 2. William Jackson, b. 27 Aug 1856, Fort Benton, Dakota Territory , d. Bef 1900, Montana (Age 43 years) |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jan 2009 |
| Family ID |
F10655 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Amelia is listed frequently as "Minnie" by her siblings. She married first a white man by the name of Thomas Jackson. Two sons are listed as surviving: (1) William Jackson, well documented Indian Scout with General Custer, and (2) Robert Jackson, also Indian Scout.
Amelia married second: Harvey Alexander Fox, a white man, and had a son ALEXANDER FOX.
BIO:AMELIA AND HER EARLY YEARS WITH HER FAMILY
BIO:Amelia is said to be the eldest child of Hugh and Sinopah and so would have to be born before John who is convincingly documented with a birth date of 1822-23. However, her first documented marriage, to Thomas Jackson, probably did not occur before 1850 as her oldest recorded son, Robert, was born in 1854. She is also documented as still living by Schultz in 1922, and it is improbable that she would be over 100 years old. It IS likely that she was the oldest of the Munro daughters. Ages stated on Indian and Agency census rolls vary widely in the early records, as age was a relative rather than a definitive matter to all Indians who commonly "told time" by seasons or salient events rather than the "white man calendar."
BIO:On a 1908 affidavit to the BIA Amelia states she is 69 years old (born 1839 ?). She lists her first husband as "Andrew Jackson, white, deceased." She states she married Harvey Alexander Fox in 1877 at Mandan (or Bismark), North Dakota, by Methodist minister. BIO:"Millie," as she was known to the family, lived the usual life of Piegan Indian girls of her time. She learned all the skills so necessary to the women, as well as the modesty and quiet demeanor expected of all Piegan Indian maidens. As the eldest daughter she would have helped with the household work and the care of her younger brothers and sisters. However, she would also have had more than the usual Indian exposure to the white people living in the area, and would have accompanied her family to Fort Benton where Hugh acted as an interpreter for the Piegans in their fur trading. She would have been one of the most desirable of the comely Indian maidens after Thomas Jackson arrived with the annual boat brigade delivering the annual trading supplies for Fort Benton in 1835.
BIO:AMELIA MEETS AND MARRIES THOMAS JACKSON AT FORT BENTON
BIO:Thomas, the son of an old Virginia family, was educated and quiet spoken and would have had little insight into the rugged and dangerous life which was natural for Amelia. As Thomas spent his days cutting, sewing, tailoring and assembling a variety of necessary uniforms and modified wearing apparel for the fort employees and as trade goods, he would, by choice, experience little of the rugged outdoor life of the Northwest frontier. Although, like most men in the early 1800's, he was a passable shot with a rifle, he disliked killing animals and declined to hunt. He enjoyed the long evenings before the fire just smoking, talking, or reading the latest selection of books sent out from the East.
BIO:Amelia's father, Hugh, the "White Blackfoot," by his own admission, cared nothing for reading, and he had felt no need to make "scholars" out of his sons ! But Hugh DID enjoy the opportunity of conversation whenever the occasion permitted - even with Thomas Jackson ! Proficient in English, French and Pikuni, his interests ranged from swapping tall tales to catching up on the "news from the East" - even the latest "foolishness" of the U.S.Government !
BIO:In the early years Fort Benton was the focus of trade for the entire area. Not only Indians, but Mountain Men, free trappers and, eventually, prospectors and miners, depended on this lone facility at the end of the Missouri River navigation for necessary supplies. The contract suttler at Fort Benton employed a number of men at the fort as clerks and workers. Hugh was usually employed as the Fort hunter, responsible for providing the game needed to feed all the employees as well as their families, and as his sons matured they were also hired to help. In return he was provided with living quarters within the fort buildings for his extended family, provisions, and forage for his horses in the adjoining fields and corrals. Although they missed the freedom of the wilderness and the migrant life-style of the usual Pikuni life, the women found living within the fort buildings was much easier and less demanding of their time and energy. Without the usual primitive foraging for supplimentary food, fire-wood and water, they had more time for socializing, creating baskets and carrying containers, and decorating clothing with fine beadwork and dyed porkupine quills - a luxury activity in the wilderness.
BIO:In the close proximity of the Fort Benton activities and living arrangements, the employees became as integrated as a large disparate family. As the seasons rolled by they depended upon each other as the anchor in the changing world of commerce, supplies, weather, Indian policies and disasters, and the vagaries of "The Government." By 1850 Thomas Jackson must have decided that he would probably NOT return to the genteel world in Virginia. And, like many white men before and after him, he yearned for his own family unit - a wife and family to complete his circle of continuity. What an attractive picture Amelia depicted as a suitable wife !
BIO:Thomas and Amelia saw the seasons roll by as they resided in their comfortable quarters at Fort Benton until the "disaster" of 1864 when the "government" declined to renew the contract of James Dawson, Thomas's employer. With two sons, they tried a season of hunting and trapping with Rising Wolf and the extended family, but Thomas was totally unsuited to this activity, and had no reservations is saying so. He returned with Amelia to Fort Benton and found employment with the new sutler, and there he remained until 1870 when the fort again was in an upheavel over management.
BIO:FROM FORT BENTON TO FORT BUFORD
BIO:He then took Amelia and his sons, Robert and William and journeyed down to the mouth of the Yellowstone River to Fort Buford, where he found employment at the Larpenteur Trading Post. William Jackson relates that the family was still at Larpenteur's until at least 1874 when he and Robert joined the Army at Fort Buford as Indian Scouts. Beyond this point no records have been found of Thomas. It is probable that he died around 1875, as before 1877 Amelia is married to a white man named Harvey Alexander Fox.* Their son, Alexander, was born at Mandan, Dakota about 1877.
TBL:*Undated Blackfoot census (probably 1905) states Amelia FOX was married in 1876 by a clergyman to Harvey Alexander Fox.
BIO:AMELIA MARRIES HARVEY A. FOX - RETURNS TO BLACKFOOT RESERVATION
BIO:Amelia's son, Alexander Fox, states that he came on the reservation in 1892. He would then have been about 15 years old. In the 1907-8 depositions Amelia is fequently referred to as "wife of A. Fox" or "wife of old man Fox" so it is likely they came to the Blackfoot reservation as a family unit. In 1908 Alex lists his father as still living.
BIO:Amelia is next listed in records as the wife of Harvey Alexander Fox, a white man in the Fort Benton area. In 1896 she is listed with a son also named Alexander Fox. It is suggested by family records in 1898 that Amelia is a widow.In the census of 1898 she Lists her son Alexander Fox, age 21, and his daughter, Mable Fox, plus her Jackson grandchildren Andrew (19), John (17), Eliza (15), Milly (13), and Lizzie (11) - probably children of her son Robert Jackson.
BIO:In 1898 her son William Jackson, 39 years old, is living with his wife, Mary and children Thomas (age 12), Millie (8), Hugh (6), Maggie (5) and Annie (2).
BIO: Amelia survives the many changes in the Indian culture between 1875 and 1900 when all the Pekuni are expected to be enrolled on the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana. In 1922 she is reported as still living (in an Indian Agency hospital facility) by her brother Frank Munro. No verification has been documented for her death.
Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996
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