Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-05-24
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, THURSDAY,

''>N-s AS'A'"hS O"iioron pun tno h0sVy VI He
heavenly Father, and bowed her head, withou
murmur, to bis decrees. For the dead sh
did not mourn; they were at rest, and no sor
row or useless repinings could restore them b
her again. But her lost daughter, her darlinI
Frances was ever in her thoughts. Like Raehae
weeping for her children, she refused to be com
forted, and entertained lively hope that sh'
would one day be restored to her arms again
Her spirits seemed buoyed up with this hope
and she lived in anticipation of again seeing
her and pressing her to her bosom. Days,month
and years rolled on, and the lamp Of hope still
burned as brightly as ever. No tidings had evel
reached her Of her child, aud all gave her vi
but her poor beaf&stricken mother. Wher
peace was declared, and many captives returned
to their homes and families, she sent two Of her
sons TO Canada in search Of their lost sister, =
/ They sought her wherever therewas tile sligus-
est chance of her presence; they offered reward,
for her recovery, but all in vain, and they re.
turned to their mother with the cherries tidings
convinced of her DEATH Not so with her. She
felt satisfied that Frances still lived, and would
not listen to any supposition. AT length her
cherished hope seemed about to be realized a
woman was found among the Indians, who had
been carried away when child from the Sus-
quehannah, and she was sent for by Mrs. Slo-
cum, who cherished her and endeavored to feel
that her child was restored. But the invisible
link which binds mother to her offspring was
wanting, and the bereaved mother was bcreaved
still. The founding, too, felt that she was not
the long-lost and looked for daughter, and ulti-
mately returned to her Indian friends Years
rolled on. Time had withered the locks of the
confding mother with age her SONS had passed
the meridian of life, and their children had
grown to manhood, and yet she still entertained
the belief that her Frances lived. AT length
she was called away to join her husband in
another world, and she went down into the
grave mourning" that she was not permitted
this side the grave, to embrace her darling
Some years after death, when her brothers
were grey-haired men, and when all had ceased
to entertain thought of the lost sister, thei,
feelings were aroused by an announcement which
placed beyond question the fact that she still
lived, and remembered her former home and
friends. An Indian agent in Ohio wrote to the
editor of one of the newspapers in Pennsylva.
MIA, informing him that he had seen and talked
with II white woman among the Indians, who
had told him that her name was Slocum that
her father was Quaker, and wore broad.
brimod hat ; that he lived in place on the Sus.
quehannah river which was near q town where
there was fort and that she was taken from
thence while child, by the Indians This let
ter the editor---whodeeme the matter heax--
threw among his waste papers, where it laid
for year or more, until his wife, one day, il
looking them over, came across it. Her sympa
thetic feelings were aroused, and she sent it tc
the InteMgencer, in which it was published. II
happened that, on account of a temperance ad
dress it contained, an extra number was printed
one Of which found its way to Wyoming, ant
the two brothers and sister Immediately start
ed for the West to find the long lost Frances
They found her, but oh, how changed! Sb
was now an aged woman, with grand-childre
about her, and fast approaching the grave. Th
interview which took place between the Ion
separated brothers and sister was affecting i
the extreme.
She informed them through an interpreter
(she bad lost her native language) that afte
her capture she was treated in the most tende
manner by the Indians, who took her to thei
towns, when she soon became attached to thei
rowing, nomandic life, and came to dread bein
discovered by her friends. When she grew "
and her foster parents died, she married youn
chief Of the Delawares, (the tribe to which hi
captors belonged) and after his death she joine
the Miamis with her own people, and marie
again. She had been widow now for man
years, children and grandchildren were grow
ing up around her, and her life was passin
pleasantly away. She was comparatively wealth
having large stock and all the rude comfor
of Indian life in abundance, besides one tho,
sand dollars in specie that she had saved fro
the annuity which, as an Indian, she had draw
from Government. After spending several da
with her, her friends bid her final farewell
She died few years since, and was buried wi
much pomp, for she was regarded as que'
among her people.