Mary [Wells] met Lt. Slaughter at a dance. From the minute they met they were smitten with one another. Twenty-three months later, after an enjoyable courtship of partying, picnicking, etc., there were married on May 24, 1852 in the Episcopal Church.
Quiemuth was born in the late 1790s and his half-brother, Leschi, was born in 1808, both in the village of Me-schal on the Mashel River, a tributary of the Nisqually.