Frances Slocum Monument

Frances Slocum, a child of English descent, was born in Warwick, Rhode Island, in March 1773 and was carried into captivity from her father's house at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on November 2, 1778, by Delaware Indians soon after the Wyoming Massacre. Her brothers searched persistently for her but did not find her until September 21, 1837, when, prompted by a published letter describing an aged white woman in the Miami Indian village here, two brothers and a sister visited this place and identified her. She had lived near here about 32 years with the Indian name Ma-Con-a-Quah. Through her captivity she became a stranger to her mother-tongue, a stranger to her brethren, and an alien to her mother's children. She died on this ridge on March 9, 1847, and was given a Christian burial. Her husband, She-Po-Con-Ah, a Miami Indian chief, died here in 1833 (?) at an advanced age. Their adult children were Ke-Ke-Nok-Esh-Wah, wife of Rev. Jean Baptiste Brouillette, who died March 13, 1847, aged 47 years and leaving no children, and O-Zah-Shin-Quah, or Jane, wife of Rev. Peter Bondy, who died January 25, 1877, aged 62 years and leaving a husband and nine children.

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