The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-27
MONUMENT TO MACONAQUA.
CAPTURED WRITE CHILD VINO GREW
UP AN INDIAN WOMAN.
Found Sixty Years After She Was Taken
FROM Her Home. She Feared and Mistrusted
Her white Reia tivcs- C:rcat.G GRANDCHILDREN
Unveii q Monument Near wabash. Ind.

Unveii Monument Near wabash. Ind
bronze monument 10 n woman whose lif'
forms q remarkable chapter Of early American
history was unveiled In blndy Cemetery. neal
Wabash, Ind on May II Born Of American
percentage. this woman spent her whole life n d
member Of an Indian tribe, forgetting all the
heritage Of her birth aud infant training and
becoming in her very instincts an Indian
woman. Where she Is mentioned In the his
tories II Is under her baptisWal name, Frances
elocum, but the name under which she lived
for nearly seventy years and to which she
chung 10 the end Of her life WINS Maconaqna,
meaning In the Indian language Young Rear
Py the whites who knew Of her history In the
latter DAYS ~ her life she was called The
White Rose Of the Miami" and THE Lost Child
OF the Wyoming" Around her monument
when II was unveiled gathered her great-grand-
children, who hold the land granted to her
and her descendants in perpetnity AZ the time
when the Indian tribes were sent west from
indiana.
In the history NJ the Slocum family. which is
probably the most reliable authority on this
point, II Is stated that Frances Slocnm was born
In March, 1913, In Warwick township. r l.. ard
that her parents moved 10 the Wyoming VAL
ley In PENNSYLVANIA within n year or two after
her birth. Some other authorities state that
she was born In the Wyoming Valley. In either
case she was stll n very young child when the
troubles between the brave and adventurous
tribe OF Delaware Indians and the settlers in
the vicinity of what Is now Wilkes-Barro and
was then known ms Wilkos-Barre Fort, had
reached a violent stage. The house of the Slo-
runs was n stout wooden structure about half
o mile from the fort. lust where the present
public square Of Wilkes-Barre IS situated. Her
father was a Quaker. but the primal in
etinct Of mankind exists In Quakers as
well as In other mon. and self-preserva-
tion inspired Mr.. Slocnm to keep his
house fortified and ready for an attack and to
teach his sons To shoot and 10 be expert in tho
CUNNING Of the strategic, bush and tire" warfare
which the early settlers handily learned from
their Indian foes A. the beginning Of Novem-
Der, ITS. whom Frances was S years old. there
had been a slackenino OF the Delaware deprcda-
tons and Mr., Slocum with his Grown-np sons
went away on business leaving Frances and the
house in charge Of a fftcen-year-old boy named
Kingsley. who, with his Younger brother had
been taken in bv the SloCums when they were
orphaned and in want. There was also a coll
ored girl in the house. Whore the mother and
the other children were does not appear. hut 1t
Is probable that they we're either absent or suc-
ceodsd +, ,onceoli,e ,berse,ves mo, tho n
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ranged over a large area, but with as little sue
cess. Then the two oldest brothers devoted
,bansalves N the rssc,,o ~, ,boir s,stor Nv
Slocum was a prosperous settler. lie provided
them with funds. QUILTED them. and author
ia ,h.n 20 ocar rauord ., ,-oo ,o-anr To-
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formation as 10 the wnereaboutso oil the lost girl,
an enormous sum In those days. particularly TO
the Indians whom Il was intended TO temnt For
u ' "o"' emp :"
a year the two young men ranged over the
country between the Susquehanna River and
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.no "'oa. i'nne9' oohs'ahu' !" pr''' s"in'-
times without seeing n human being for
weeks. meeting with hostile tribes. fighting
against man part.eS Oh ihuiahs "heh they
could not help II, f,eelng from large parties
when threatened. but always striving when i,
%. noss,hla n os,ahlioh ,riond,y ,aIo,ions ,i,h
the redskins. for II was through them that their
only hope Of getting news Of Frances lay. That
th., sho,,d have osc.rod oon,ura or rnossooro
."ey s''ou' nov o'V',e" '"p'",o " "aN'"'''
In a country infested with marauding bands of
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deadly lighters. and In time they came 10 hav"
Q name for courage among the Indians. manyof
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