IOOF - Amelia Schwatka, age 75, died in Salem of pneumonia, beloved wife of F. G. Schwatka.
1850 IL CENSUS - Amelia Schwatka, age 39, b. Virginia, is enumerated with Catherine, age 16, b. Ohio, Helena, age 14, b. Ohio, Amelia, age 11, b. Ohio, Loretta, age 9, b. Iowa, August, age 8, b. Iowa, Josephine, age 4, b. Illinois, and Fredrick, age 1, b. Illinois. [Husband is not enumerated with the family]
See also: Biographical sketch for husband, Fredrick G. Swatka (Pioneer cemetery database)

BIOGRAPHICAL (Source - Historic Firsts of Lewiston, Idaho: Unintented Greatness):
"1864: Idaho's first female photographer.
Amelia Ann Schwatka Strang was an Oregon pioneer who announced the opening of her new Lewiston studio on November 19: 
“Photographing. The undersigned having opened a Daguerrian Room in Lewiston, is prepared to take all kids of Photographs, Ambrotypes, and Melainotypes, in the most superior style and at Reasonable Rates. Albums of every description always on hand.  Room — On C Street, between 4th and 5th.”  
"In November 1865, she obtained a federal tax license for her Lewiston business, a feat very rare for a woman at the time. Indeed, she may have been the first in Idaho. She moved to Santa Cruz, California, for a short time with her husband Thomas and sons Augustus and Frederick in 1868 and became an important children’s photographer. “No Lady need say she cannot get a picture of her baby, for Mrs. Strang is acknowledged to have no equal taking Children’s Pictures.”  In 1869 she was awarded a patent for a new boot design. Strang’s son Frederick died in October 1884 of a strangulated hernia while studying at the United States Naval Academy. The Journal of the House of Representatives (December 1, 1884, p. 90) reported that the hernia was the result of injuries from “cruelties practiced upon him by senior cadets.” The Secretary of the Navy was ordered to investigate but found no grounds to support such claim. A disgruntled parent of a courtmartialed student instigated the investigation. Her brother Frederick Schwatka served on the Arctic patrol that went in search of the Franklin Expedition and found the grave of Lt. John Irving. She lived in San Francisco until 1879, when she moved to Salem, Oregon, where she died in 1899."

PHOTOGRAH NOTE: The picture of Amelia is shown courtesy of Steven Branting.

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At the family residence on Commercial street, in this city, on Sunday afternoon, January 25, 1885, Amelia Hukill Schwatka, aged wife of Father F. G. Schwatka. Although Mother Schwatka has been an invalid for several years, the illness that caused her death, was of few days, and was painless. She passed away full of years, surrounded by friends and several of her children, who reverently closed her eyes, and folded her loving hands across that heart that for so many years had throbbed for those she loved. Mrs. Schwatka was born near Bethany, West Virginia, February 12, 1812, and was married in Wheeling, same state, October 24, 1833. She came to the Pacific coast with her husband, early in the fifties, and most of the intervening time has been spent in our midst, where she has raised a family of children who passed out into the world, bearing the impress of her Christian care and education. She leaves to mourn her loss, her invalid husband, F. G. Schwatka, her daughters, Mrs. C. M. Cross, Mrs. J. D. Jordan and Mrs. Amelia Strang, (mother of Cadet Strang, who recently died at Annapolis, Md.) of this city; Mrs. Thos. H. Reynolds of Portland, Mrs. Anna Gibbs of Waterford, W.T., A.C. Schwatka of San Francisco, and Lieutenant Fred G. Schwatka of the U.S. Army, and Arctic explorer; besides many grandchildren, all of whom will retain to their dying day, the remembrance of their good, kind grandmother. 
Weekly Oregon Statesman Jan. 3, 1885, 7:2

Amelia Hukill
wife of 
F. G. Schwatka 
1812 - 1855 
Mother

IOOF Register of Burials 
DAR pg 22 
1850 IL CENSUS (Jo Daviess Co., Galena, FA #2428)
Branting, Steven, Historic Firsts of Lewiston, Idaho: Unintented Greatness, pp 50-51
WOS 3 Jan 1885 7:2 
OS 2 Jan 1886 (Necrological listing)