Photograph 2021.002.002

"Nicholas Moonin married a former student, Marfa Macha, in 1904. It was Father Bortnovsky, his former mentor at Sitka, who performed the marriage ceremony. Marfa was the daughter of Peter and Kathleen Macha. Her mother's maiden name was Romanov, and she was a Creole from Alexandrovsk. Peter Macha was full-blooded Aleut and had moved from Yalik to Alexandrovsk at the priests' request in the 1850s or 60s. He told Sergius Moonin that he had worked in the coal mine at Coal Village for very poor wages under extremely hard working conditions. Both Peter and Kathleen, who raised four duaghters in Alexandrovsk, are burried here today."

-Alexandrovsk: English Bay In Its Traditional Ways, Vol 1, Pg 18