She had indeed become an Indian even in looks. She thought, felt and reasoned like an Indian.
The Slocums had this comfort, their “Lost Sister of Wyoming” was not degraded in her habits or character; her Anglo-Saxon blood had not been tainted by savage touch, but bore itself gloriously amid long series of trials through which it had passed.
Correspondence was kept up between the relatives until the death of Frances, which occurred March 9, 1847.
George Major, Chief Burgess of Mahanoy
City, Murdered by Mollie Maguires,
November 3, 1874
George Major, the popular chief burgess of Mahanoy City, died Tuesday, November 3, 1874, from the effects of pistol shot wounds received the Saturday previous, the assassins being members of the notorious Mollie Maguires.
A great strike was in progress in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania, and during such periods of intense excitement the Mollies were as active as a community of hornets whose nest some schoolboys had invaded with paddles.
George Major had long since gained the enmity of this nefarious organization, and was a doomed man.
James McParlan, a young Irishman from Chicago, was the Pinkerton detective who lived among the Mollies, became one of them, and who successfully rid the State of the whole organization.