Personal Life
Slade married Melinda Riccilli in 1968. They have two sons, the contemporary artist, Morgan Riccilli Slade and designer/builder Mitchel Slade. He is currently living in Northern California where he continues pursuing his artistic endeavors.
Slade's maternal grandmother, Alice Louise (née Ford) Van Blarcom, was Henry Ford's fifth cousin. His Ford lineage goes back to Martha and John Ford who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts on the Fortune, the second ship to arrive in the New World, on November 9, 1621. John died on the voyage. Martha disembarked with their two sons and gave birth to their third on the same day. The ship's manifest lists among the passengers, a John Cannon, the name of the patriarch in "The High Chaparral" television series.
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