Mother Damnable was born in Pennsylvania. She married Bull Conklin, captain of a whaling ship, and that&#039;s how she got to Seattle. They weren&#039;t getting along when he dropped her off in Port Townsend on his way to Alaska. She could swear in six languages that she learned from sailors. She was buried in the cemetery that was in Denny Park. When the graves were moved, the movers claimed she had turned to stone in her coffin.