Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
POCAHONTAS IN ENGLAND.
The Indian Girls Burial and Acct
dautaI Cremation.

dGRI3t SFeUtatAOH
In nv last letter 1 promised to say
something of the new light thrown
bv Mr.. Herbert Jones's ''Sandring-
ham" Gin Norfolk, England upon the
visit Of POcahontas to England,
writes a Naples correspondent Of the
American Register Sir Thomas
Dale. the governor Of Virginia, took
deep interest in the baptism and
marriage of POcahOntas, both Of
which We're celebrated in the little
wooden church of Jamest0 n,n. 1t is
this governor who, In u letter con
tempOraneOus with the wedding,
wrote of the Indian wife of John
Rotfe that she dwelt civilly and low
lagly with ker husband, and the lat
ter he described as an honest gentle
man and good behavior. We must
remember that the word ''clvilly"
used above meant in the seventeenth
century like civilized person. Three
Years after the marriage Of John
Role and POcahontas Chat is, In the
beginning of 1919 they went to Eng
land and the latter was received with
as warm a welcome as her husband
Not only so, but Mrs. Herbert Jones
tells us that the once little Indian
maiden Of the VIrginian forests, clad
IN the costume prevailing at that time
IN England, was received with much
pomp by the bishop Of London, and
was presented at court, James | being
at that time the reigning monarch
We are further more told that
Pocahontas relished the charms of
the court the drama, and polite
society; but the climate, and especial
ly the smoke and fog of London,
affected and weakened her health.
And so it was determined that they
would return to the new world. Mr..
John ROlfe made all the preparations
for the voyage, and the vessel in
with her husband and their bright
eyed little half-breed son Thomas was
to sail from Gravesend. Arriving at
this port her illness increased. Care
fully and tenderly she was lifted on
the deck of the good ship, which was
on the eve of sailing; Tut, alas, life
soon fled, and the daughter of
Powhatan died just nine months after
her arrival in England Mrs. Her
bert Jones, IN "Sandringham Past
and Present." thus concludes the ac-
count OF her death and burial: "She
(POcahOntas), who had hoped for
home in the trackless forests of her
own kind, was appropriately con-
signed to the chancel of mOuldy old
church IN Gravesend, and even under
went cremation, for that church was
burned to the ground one hundred
ID4 - e
POcahOntas her husband returned to
Virginia, where he was secretary
and recorded general" of the colony,
but his son educated Onder the super
vision of his uncle, Henry ROlfe, OF
Norwood. When he attained his
majority he went to America and
married, and left the only daughter.
This daughter married Col Boiling,
and it is through her that come all
who are real descendants of Pocahon
tas. The interesting book from which
/ have CLEANED the above
facts says nothing about the
usual story of the Ran
dolph family in Virginia obtaining
their name by changing 'Rolfe" into
Randolph" The usual sensational
story of Capt. Smith 5eing saved by
Pocahontas rushing in between the
uplifted club aud the intended victim
may not be true in every way par
ticularly, but this much is fully estab-
lished, that from the very first she
was friend to the white men who
FIRST went to Virginia, and that she
became the loving wife of one of the
earliest and most respectable settlers of
the Jamestown colony.