Mary died early and John remarried he had a daughter about whom little is known and a son called Peter (1864-1947).
Kalama married a Nisqually woman, Mary Martin, and worked on a farm repairing fish barrels, among other jobs. Others maintain that the town was named for John Kalama (1814?-1870?), a carpenter from the Hawaiian island of Maui who came to the Pacific Northwest on a fur-trading vessel in the 1830s. Kalama was first settled by Native Americans, particularly members of the Cowlitz Indian Tribes.
Sprague of the Northern Pacific Railroad named the town in 1871 for the Indian word calama, meaning 'pretty maiden.' There is an additional story: Gabriel Franchère, in 1811, wrote of the Indian village at the mouth of the Kalama River, adding that it was called Thlakalamah (this story predates all of the others). Phillips' Washington State Place Names states, 'General J.W. The population was 2,959 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Longview, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. Kalama (kaw-law-maw) is a city in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States.
