Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-02-15
AN DER TRUE TALE.
STOLEN BY INDIANS WHEN A
LITTLE GIRL AND GREW
UP WITH THEN.
]. ". TOWN, OF MEXICO, A RELATIVE
Monument to Be Erected at Wabash,
Ind, to the Memory Of Frances
slOeum, the Heroine-A Very
Strange Case, Indeed-0f
Local Interest.

1922 WV ~
Local Interest
The following highly interesting
narrative OF the early days Of THU
nation-when the bloodthirsty indiana
were stalking broadcast over THU
country; before the Red Man wa,
driven westward by Civilizations
copied from the Chicago Tribune Of
December 26th, last. The heroine OIL
the story, Frances Slocum, wss .
grandaunt Of J.. W. Town, OF thii
city--that is, she was his grandmoth-
er's sister.
While Frances slocum was q little
child she was taken by the Indians
and was not found BY her relatives,
who had given her up for dead, fol
many years afterward-not until she
had married two Indian chieftaina
and acquired all the habits and Gus
toms OF the red children Of the for.
est.
Mr.. Town says his father, Benjamin
Curtis Slocum Town, went to see
Frances Slocum ct Sandusky, Ohio,
just as soon as he learned sac had
been found. And now that 3 monu-
ment is to be erected to her memory,
In all probability Mr.. Town will be
present with the other relatives when
it Is unveiled on the nth Of next May.
The narrative was profussly Illus
trated by the Tribune and is a. fol-
lows:
A STRANGE STORY, INDEED.
Down at Wabash, Ind, arrange
ments have just been completed for
the erection OF . monument to n Of
the straugest characters In American
history.
No stranger story than that of Fran.
ces Slocum, whose descendants are
about to immortalize her memory in
bronze, has ever been told since the
Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth
Rock.
Born Of white parents, she wai
stolen while a little girl by the Indians
She was reared In an Indian wigwam,
married an Indian chief, and was
given up as dead by the surviving
members of her family. Years after
ward her presence in al Indian vii
lage was accidentally discovered by 9
traveller, and In the most curious way
the news finally reached her brothers
and sisters. She, however, resisted
all their efforts to persuade her to re-
turn to civilization, and she died 81
she had lived, an Indian In every
thing but birth. Among the savagei
and the early settlers OF the West she
was known as the "White Rose Of the
Miamis," and as 'sThe Lost Child Of
Wyoming"
Frances Slocum was the daughter
OF Jonathan and Mary Slocum, Quak.
ers, who In I'LL moved from Connec.
ticut to Wilkeabarre, Pa, then a ham
let in the wilderness.
They we're constantly exposed to
the attacks OF the Indians, but IL was
not until November, ITS, that three
Delaware Indians, during the absence
OF Mr.. Slocum, stole up to the dwell
ing and murdered two Of the children
and the son of q neighbor, who were
at work outside.
Frances and her mother fed into
the house and hi6, but Frances wal
found In a closet and was carried
away by one Of the Delawares, while
the mother followed the red men and
imPlored them to restore her daught-
or. Mr.. slocum, on bis return home,
undertook to follow the trail Of the
Indians, but was obliged in the dense
forest to abandon the pursuit. A
month later the slocum household
was assailed by the savages, who
killed Mr.. Slocum.
Repeated attempts vert made to
recover the lost child by Mrs. slocum
and her sons. They obtained clew.
to her occasionally through the re.
ports Of government agents, but wher
they visited the localities where she
was said to be held she had disappear.
ed, and the Indians themselves seemed
to have entered into a conspiracy ia
prevent her return, for they refused
TO divulge the slightest information
when questioned concerning her.
Long before the opening Of the
nineteenth century Frances had beer
carried west, as the Indians were
forced to retire before the approach.
ing civilization, and the discovery oil
her abiding place was purely acci.
dental.
Colonel George W. Ewing, an Indi.
an trader, whose home was At Logans.
port, Ind, CHANGED one night in 1881
to be overtaken by darkness In tn,
vicinity of the Usage camp, known al
Deaf Mans Village, in the western
part of Wabash county. He applied
ct the home Of the chief for lodging
and was assigned the corner OF the
large room In the cabin occupied In
common by the chief, his squaw and
two daughters. Ewing could moi
sleep, aHd as he watched the move.
ments of the squsw attending q
the household duties he noticed
that her demeanor differed some.
what from that of the Indians, anc
also observed, when she raised her
arms and the sleeves fell away, thai
the skin was white.
Astonishsd at this, he questioned
her IN the Indian tongue, and after
some hesitation she admitted that abs