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Pa. and asked him whether there was any
record Of a white girl being lost from mat

interest. Tor the inquiry was not at all exten
sive, and only a few persons knew OF the lettei
been quietly IpissonhoIsd by the Postmaste'
for more than two years. the facts about IL pc
came known to a representative OF The lntcm.
""Hitherto She has feared that II her identity
became known the white people Toula do,os
have succeeded in, inspiring her with a Frea'
fenr of this Now. however. she Is old and get
ting feeble. and believes that she has not much
longer 10 live. and so she gives this partial ms,
tory 49, She has lived long and happily
"a, an Indian, is very respectable and wealthy
sober and honest; her name Is without re-
proach."
In the course OF time a copy OF that news.
paper reached Joseph Slocum, the Oldest
brother Of the long missing girl. who SUI lveo
At wilkes-Barre. He wrote 70 Col. Ewing az
once, giving the details. of Frances's abduc-
ton. The reply he got determined him 70 go
~ once to Indiana and he wrote to his sister,
his brother Isaac. who lived IN northern ono.
asking them to 90. also. 70, which they readlly
agreed. In the fall Of 1887 the two brothers ana
the sister visited Frances AT he. hons ana her
identity was proved beyond a shadow II
doubt. for not only did she recollect the name
e Slocum when they recalled II to- per
fingers whore Isaac had accidentally struck her
with n hammer when she was = years, OLD
Conversation was carried on through an inter
prefer. "a she could peak ne, English ne
family was deeply affected AT this strange meet
inc after so many wears In which they had given
up their sister aslost beyond hope, but she did
not in the least share In this feeling. 10 the
stoicism Of the Indian was added q dsep-r9oted
suspicion Of the Establishments OF, the whites.
implanted by long teaching OF the tribe;
and she uneaSlly hoped for the departure 81
her three visitors, believing. that they were
plotting to take her away with them and Obtain
possession of her considerable property. Much
cr-stfallen and disheartened they went away.
Their sister had not In the least doubted the
relationship; she simply felt no affection FOR
them and considered them a aliens. Two years
later. however,. he seems to have experienced
something o. the feeling Of kinship, having
meantime talked with Col Ewing and been as
! sured by him tn 4 her family had no designs
brother and asked him 20 visit her again,
Joseph came on from Pennsylvania and this
time he found the Indian widow much, more
communicative In fact. she told him all that
sh" could remember Of her history from the
time she was captured bv the war party
From the first the Indians had treated her
by slow degrees and she was initiated into the
customs Of he tribe and became practically a
full member The Delawares were one Of the
! tribes who treated their women well and even
held them in high respect in the tribal councils.
and though the life was full OF hardshins the
girl grew up strong and active, When she
by the couple, whose special charge she was TO
n brave called Little Turtle She gave him no
children and after The tribe had wandered TO
the Middle West he left her and struck out for
the country beyond the Mississippi River II
Is to be supposed that Maconauua, Ms she had
been named by the DelawareS, was an attractive
squnw since soon after the d~eSertion Of her
nv Turtle. she ms FRIED She-poe-ken-ah. a Miami
chief. known 10 the whites as Deaf Man, and
had by him toGr, children Among tbs Miamis.
husband was an influential chief and was kind
10 her. generally following her advice IN mat
ter. q tribal council, Upon his death she
erty and wa sbx', she proudly stated. to live
IN a much better ho,Is" than she had. hut did not
dare 70 build one, fearing to arouse the enmity
oas Of her. She would die rs she had lived, an
Indian, but she asked her brother to help
hcr look after her affairs in the inter-
both Of her. sons having died. leaving
no man in the family Joseph was not able TO
remain long in Indiana, but he made arrange
for. and when Congress determined to
remove all the indians from Ipdiana he was
able 70 lender her a signal service fer he en-;
that statesman In one Of his characteristic
bursts of oratory, pleaded for her exemption
from the exile and advocated a grant OF land TO
her and her descendants Congress granted to
her a squire mile of land to descend in per-
petuity TO her line, and that grant is still occu-
pied by her grandchildren. She died IN, iss7
most noted Indian characters In the country.
Several books have been written about her and
there r1d 5 R6 a curious af ,Ss R.yoI n,; Of her in lossins's
The services At the recent unveiling OF the
monument were conducted by relatives. family
or tribal Speeches were made by Elliot Sic:
Kalamazoo, and the Rev Charles f. Slocum of
Defiance. OHIO, and the actual unveiling was
nerIormcd by the great,Grandchildren of the
white Rose of the Miami" Victoria and
Mabel Bundy. T, Gabriel Godfrey, the old Chief
Of the Miami tribe. described his acquaintance
s ,bni Yin W abI MssGG2 "S LIT, is intsre; nnTGo f. HI mote
blood. as he is the great-erandson Of Pe-che-wa
Wildcat), the last powerful chief Of the Miamis
who was the son Of Joseph Drouet de Richard
vile. ar Indian trader and a French nobleman.
shronded in mystery. The monument TO Ma
conadua ia nine feet high, Of bronze, and Is in
scribed with a brief outline of her life as she
told IL to her family.
In the history Of this Stata there s n case almost
parallel 10 that Of Franc Slocum but lacking the
dramatic reunion Mary Jamison, known as the
White Captive OF the froquois" was captured
early in the Revolutionary War by a party Of
those redoubtable warriors and. being a very
young girl. was adopted into the Wolf family OF
the Senecas Unlike Frances Slocum she did
Senecas were thrown in with white settlers
more than the wandering Delawares, perhaps
because she was a little older when. captured.
Hsr l=insn,it,c ability was Of the great.
tribe s s''s sHs became 60 H the o anS n in,.rp @s-
ter. She married Jamison. one Of the
most influential chiefs of the, tribe. and her
"ration were noted for their wisdom and clear
sightpdneSs in council She died at Buffalo in
iss? i Is said that IN her i, due much OF the
along with the whites, In tho collection OF
belts got together BY Mrs. Harriet Maxwell
Converse for the state Museum at Albany "a n
fine warnpum belt handed down in the Jamison
famty a. commemorative of the White Cap
tive, About half of II is missing, having pre-
snmahlv, been sent away as ransom for some
captured member of the tribe many years ago.
II Is called the Mary jnmison belt.