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Seventh Generation 1667. Mary Caroline Bearce was born on 11 May 1821 in Bethany Mission, Connecticut (Litchfield). She died in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She was abt 3/4 Wampanoag/Narragansett/Mohican Indian from 49/128 from father and 3/8 from mother. 3/4 Wampanoag/Narragansett/Mohican Indian "At the age of 10 years, Mary Caroline, sister of Iron Face, with her older brother James Monroe Bearce, went to live with their grandparents Josiah 3rd, and Freelove Canfield at Penfield New York. At the age of 15 years, Mary Caroline Bearce returned to New Milford Connecticut to live with her oldest brother, Fredrick Canfield Bearce, who had returned from captivity in the North of Canada, where she only stayed a year when she again went back to her grandparents at Penfield where she resided until she married her cousin Elisha Roe at the age of 18 years. She knew all about the family history and was well acquainted with the facts relating to her white and Indian ancestors. She sucked Mullein leaves mixed with Tobacco." Quoted from "From out of the Past, Who Our Forefathers Really Were, Our White and Indian Ancestors back to 1628" by Franklyn Ele-wa-tum "Swimming Eel" BeArce. " Aunt Mary visited my grandfather Iron Face at Allegany when I was three years of age, and gave me my Indian name. She also named my sister her Indian name of Fern, that beautiful high colored dark green of the woodland. When I was a growing boy of 10 years, she again paid my grandfather a protracted visit of over two years, and I was always with her when she gathered wild herbs and Mullein leaves which she dried and smoked in her pipe. She talked often about our white and Indian ancestors and knew all about them. She lies sleeping in Arkansas at Eureka Springs." Quoted from "From out of the Past, Who Our Forefathers Really Were, Our White and Indian Ancestors back to 1628" by Franklyn Ele-wa-tum "Swimming Eel" BeArce. "My great aunt Mary Caroline Bearce Roe married a cousin Elisha Rau, was a dear old squaw when I was a boy, knew the contents of the Diary and had a facsimile copy of the supplement, "A True Chronicle of The Bearce Family" written in the old shaky hand of Josiah Bearce 3rd at Penfield New York." Quoted from "From out of the Past, Who Our Forefathers Really Were, Our White and Indian Ancestors back to 1628" by Franklyn Ele-wa-tum "Swimming Eel" BeArce. "Mary Caroline Bearce Rau was a pagan, and passed out still retaining the pagan faith of her aboriginal ancestors, The great Manito, and the spirit world." Quoted from "From out of the Past, Who Our Forefathers Really Were, Our White and Indian Ancestors back to 1628" by Franklyn Ele-wa-tum "Swimming Eel" BeArce. Mary Caroline Bearce and Elisha (Rau) Roe were married. Elisha (Rau) Roe (private).