Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — The White Rose of the Miamis. [ARTICLE]

The White Rose of the Miamis.

People who used to go to the “deestrict” schools way back in the times, when the scholars had readers that were good for something, McGnffy’s and Banders’ and the like, will remember a “piece” of poetry abont “The White Rose of the Miamis,” beginning: "Let me stay at my borne In tbe beautiful west, Where I played when a child In my age lej me rest." The heroide of this poem was Frances Sloonm, a girl who, at 7 years of age, was captnred by the Miami Indians m Wyoming Valley, Penn, and taken to Michigan, where she grew up as a member of the tribe, and finelly rparried a young chief, the “Brave warrior youth” of :the poem. They settled on the banks of the Wabash,» near where Peru, Ind., now is, and raised a family. When quite old she was discovered and visited by her brother but, the poem relates, declined to go back east with him. She was bnried in the Bandy graveyard, at Peoria, east of Pern, and until the present time, her grave has been without a suitable monument. A movement for the erection of a monument was inauguarated some months ago, and it will be unveiled on May 17th, 1900, with impressive ceremonies. It will be the occasion of a reunion of the Sloonm family, from all over the country, and several eminent men of that name ‘ will take part in the ceremonies.