Living History: Mary Jemison

Tina Scherman, from Leon Historical Society, will be portraying Mary Jemison,  who  was an American frontierswoman who was captured in her teens by  the Shawnees in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania.  The Seneca’s then adopted her into their tribe. She became fully assimilated into their culture and later chose to remain a Seneca rather than return to British colonial culture. Her story sheds light on the life of the Indians in the Northeast and adds information about the culture, beliefs and practices of the Seneca’s and other tribes.