Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-05-03
LOST CHILD OF WYOMING.
Mounmcni to he Erected to the Mem.
DRY of Frances SIOcum Who
Was stolen by Indians.

to be dedicated on the high knoll over
looking The valley of the MississineNa
river. in Wabash county. Indiana. The
monument will mark the burial place
of woman of singular and romantic
history. known as Frances Slocum
among the white people and as White
Rose among the lndians-who was
stolen from Quaker parents in the
Wyoming valley of Pennsylvania III
ITS, aud brought up among the In
dians in the West. Her parents were
jonathan and Mary Slocum of Con-
necticut. who had moved TO Wilkes
barre. Pennsy lvania, when that was
small frontier settlement. There. when
Frances was u young girl, tEelr dwell
ing was attacked by Delaware Indians.
Two or three members OF the family
were killed. and little Frances was car
ried away. first to Ohio. and later to
Indiana and Michigan. Soon after her
capture her father was killed by the |
Indians, but her mother. aided by
| Frances brothers and other white men, /
made persistent search TOR Frances
who became known in those parts as
! the 'lost child of Wyoming. She was
not found.
For, meantime. the Indians had car
ried her far away. over mountains and
through forests. They treated her
! kindly giving her blankets to sleep
upon at night in beds of leaves. AT
length. too, they gave her horse to
ride and dressed her in garments of
buckskin. decorated with bright beads.
Il I, IL ha,. Ton
and became happy in her new life.
She was taught to fear and hate the
white man. and whenever she saw one
she ran away. None Of the white men
who visited her tribe suspected, there
fore, that they had Il white child among
them. She learned to shoot we'll with
the bow and arrow. When the Della
wares had a war with the whites, she
was run off into the north with the
other women and children. She did
not lament this.
When she was IS years old she was
married to Delaware chief Little
Turtle. He treated her cruelty. and
she left him. and afterward was mar
| red to the Usage chief Chepokenah, or
Deaf Man" He was good to her, and
she remained with him through u long
life.
She remembered the wars of the In
dams against Gen. Wayne and Gen.
Harrison. and in both her sympathies
were with the Indians. After the last
war her husband and his people settled
On the MissiSsineva. at a place called
Deaf Mans Village.
To this place in s35-ff1y-seven
wears after Frances had been carried
away from the Wyoming valley-there
came one night trader named George
Ewing; belated on the road, he sought
nights lodging. The old chief took
him into his cabin. The chiefs wife
busted herself about the room, and as
the trader waited for his supper he
watched her. He noticed that she
looked like white woman. Once she
raised her arms for someth.. :; her
loose sleeves fell away. revealing arms
that We're suspiciously white.
The trader could speak the Indian
tongue. and as she made no response
e when he addressed her in English. he
is questioned her in that language. She
admitted that she was a white woman
'I anu udu Decll SlOleu III llel Sll lliCou
N She remembered her name and the
ID names of her father and mother, a:
rs we'll as that of the place from which
she had been taken.
2e Ewing. much interested. wrote to the
postmaster of Wilkesbarre, asking i
5. there were any people OF the name o
re Slocum still living in that vicinity. j
at took two years for his letter to fal
into the hands of Frances surviving
d. relatives, but at last it reached them.
u In due time her brothers and sister
h. came to her cabin. An affecting inter
h. view took place between her and them
and they We're instantly satisfied tina
she was indeed their long-lost sister
id They implored her to go home witt
w. them. but she refused.
m 81 am old" she said, and have live
so all my life with these people. They ar
my people. | love my husband and al
m happy with him."
a She even refused to go with them a
rt far as the neighboring town of PERT
he apparently suspecting d trap. The
went away sorrowful Not long after
", ward her husband died. Her relative
came again. once more imp|oring he
in to go home with them to PennSy lvanis
lat But now she declared that she coul
not leave her bones elsewhere than b
>" the side of her husbands. She live
there until 1s41. when she died.
is Her story is often told in Indian;
Ter and the monument to her memory Wi
err be not only a reminder of a romanti
She hist DRY. bat the memorial of a peopl
an. who had Won her love as we'll as be
he loyalty.
eS Horses in Auckland.
to Horses are cheap in Auckland tina
Ter pedestrian bids fair to become Z,
val tinct. The postman does his round
nd on horseback; the butcher a huge ba
las ket slung over his arm canters up wit
, | ordered provender. Schoolboys, tw
cb,ripr D,onpt ride