Calculating her age, the Slaughters were convinced she was born in the month of May of that year.

Apache May Slaughter became a young celebrity across Arizona, because many newspapers and publications speculated about the girl's natural parents, her relation to the Apaches and whether those factors would affect her personality in the future and turn her into a violent person without morals.

Photographers were no strangers to the small girl; she was constantly pictured and appeared in most Arizona publications of the era.

These were chosen for her by the Slaughters, who supposed that she would look outstanding in the small dresses.

Apache May died at the Slaughters' San Bernardino Ranch when one of her dresses caught fire as she was playing near a pot with boiling water.