Frances Slocum
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Frances Slocum was an adopted member of the Miami people. Slocum was born into a Quaker family that migrated from Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1777 to the Wyoming Valley in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Frances Slocum (age 66), portrait by George Winter, 1839
Group at Frances Slocum tomb
The capture of Frances Slocum
Frances Slocum and her daughters
Miami Nation of Indiana
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The Miami Nation of Indiana is the tribal government of the Miami Indians who legally remained in Indiana after removal in the 1840s. The group's headquarters are at Peru, Indiana.
Frances Slocum
…relatives from removal to Kansas Territory. Her Miami relations in Indiana were among the 148 individuals who formed the nucleus of the present-day Miami Nation of Indiana. She is buried at Slocum Cemetery in Wabash County, Indiana. Tributes named in her honor include Indiana's Frances Slocum Trail; the Frances Slocum…
Frances Slocum Cemetery in Wabash, Indiana. Generations of Miami Nation of Indians of the State of Indiana are buried at this site.