Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-02
vhsrs Shall the Proposed hOnu-
usrt to the indian Maiden
Sc Ereeted7
cid Ste, on Her Famous Journey to
Warn Captain Smith, Pass
Through Jamestown
r,Jics still Preserved That Throw
Light on the Indian Girls
Romantic Life.

mlly sleeping under the trailing Issss-
mines on the banks of the James river,
inst below Richmond. He was buried
with the klngiy honOrs possible from the
customs Of the Indian race, and his
sepulcher has often since then been WIS.,
tied and houored by travelling tribes of
redmeu jOurReying hither and thither,
.they passed the place Of his last re-
pose. But where lies the lovely and
beautiful POcahontas his tavorite daugh-
tar, whose eventful life, united with her
unusual graees of mind and heart, have
male her heroine for sill ages, and
about whose history, 80 full OF romance
and pathOs, cluster the amsrsnthine
lowers OF fad5.ess remembrance
We know that she was married to
John RoIfe, the fair young English
vidower, in the old church OF which
now but the crHmOllng tower rem aims
Il JamesIOwp; We know that she WsCt
with him to England, where she was
EsISd, C@ressed, and HOnOred;
but ~ "a any interval between the time
OIL her marriage aud her departure for
the house Of her husbands ancestors, or
the spot where her remains found their
early sepulture, the general reader
who il generally understood to be q
superficial reader-seemS to have little
0r no knowledge, If, Indeed, the qIes-
ton has ever ar sen ia his mind.
The history of POwhStAu and PJcA-
houtas, ard Of the English people who
colCniz'd Virginia, is part and parcel Of
colonial history, and no history of the
United States would be OmpleEe-nay,
IL would be lacking not only in fact, but
in one ul its most fascinating FEATURE
vhiCa omitted details OF the beautiful
Indian maiden who was so kind to tue
cplOUistS; whose nature seems To have
been tainted with some OF the feTOcIOuS
Instincts Of her race, but formed in most
gentle and gracious mold, and to whom
the settlers behind tie PALISADES Of
Jamestown owed on more than one 90
easiOn their escape from destruction ~
the hands OF
The RloodthITsty Chick an Omitss
or other tribes o. the 5000 over which
POwhatan ruled with the aid Of his
thirty under kings.
After remaining for q while at James
Oitiesn on the banks OF the river Pow
hatnn, where it's lovely waters spread
four miles across 10 the green shores OF
Nansemond, the bride and grOOm weHt
I'D the river To within twelve miles OF
what u now Richmond, but what was
then but q new settlement known as
James River Falls. The place TO which
they WelgL WAS called HenTicApO.iS, the
CITY Of HenriCus, and Henr;cO, after
Prince Henry, son o. James L., VITO was
s greet iavOritt. with the cOlOHists, and
this place had outlying dependencies
named CUxeuiale, Hape in Faith, and
its forts, Patience Snd CBSrity. Even
that early the Purtau element han be-
gun 10 asst rJ Ilseif among tue dominant
cavalier society. OF Aenr,cO, Bishop
Meade SANS that ION the north side OF
the James river lies tract of land than
which none except
The IsIaDc On wbIrh jamestown
Stood
hss more interest for q Nirginiau or an
sntIgUAr,au. IL was the second settle
meat ufl..e colony, with the exception
e futile attempts at the Fails Rich
mOndl, at SunSrmOni, and Hampton"
TIE intereet referred to by the good
Bishop attaches to the fact of Sir
Thomas Dale, High Marshal; Captain
John Smith, and john ROlfe aud his
wife, or RebeecA MatOaX Role, being
the most distinguish settlers here. ROlfs
aud POCahOutas had their residence two
miles below HenricO, and called their
Mace Narina, after 3 superior article OF
Spanish tobacco, and here the happy
couple lived "civilly and lovingly" as
the quaint records tell, for three years.
Ire there only child, Thomas, was
torn, which the mother "lOved most
deadly" and from here they went pack
10 her husbands native land, where
they arrived early In the summer OF
1915.
Brief, however, WAS the sylvan
lrlUCeSs' brilliant career in the alien
lard. Although caressed and cOurted
by the very highest aud best, she
Pinned for she Native Air
and her Qu'et home beside the waters
of the PUwhptsn, and within one year
from the time she landed on AiblOn's
shores, she came to GraveSend with her
husband and little son to take ship for
Virginia, OF which colony Mr.. Role
had been appointed Secretary and
Recorder General. While waiting 1T
Gravesend POcahOntaS siOkeaed and
died suddenly, aud here is q copy OF the
entry made Ul her death in the register
Of the parish. ChGIch:
"l6l6-March 2.-Rebecs ROlfe, wyfs
OF John ROlfe, gent, 8 Virginia lady
borne, was buried in ye chauncell."
The erection Of the parish church
now standing at Graveseud is Of later
date than THIS entry, yet it is thought
TO cover the same site as its predeCes-
EOr; and while It5 "chSunCel" floor COW
srs the dust OF the lovely Indian mai
den, IL Is also her only monument, the
only mark to indicate her place OF
Eepulture, snd even that far away from
her native forests. True, the remen-
bIance of her name,
Her Virtues, and Her Deeds
will never grow dim; these are In
reality more enduring than brass or
marble but the same might be said Of
Others FOR whom the cenOtAph, wrought
with ornate legends and glowing
praises, towers toward heaven, for less,
far lees, desert than hers.
Would not a monument be appro-
PIRATE right here, where this sketch Is
dated No doubt, when the little feet
threaded the maZes CT the dark and
irksOme WOOdsp as she was on her lone
~ way lFOu tue tSOH0cOiuOcO over on
the York River to warn Captain Smith
fan intended attack on Jamestown,
she passed right through the land
WhereOn this city now stands. The soil
Of Jamestown Island Is being washed
sway too rapidly by the encrosching
James River to make that spot adviSa-
be. Here, IN old Christ Church, the
second Oldest in the colony, and quite
the oldest now in use, Is sacredly pre-
served and used the marble front from
which POcahOntAs received the waters
Of Christian baptism; and the same
church has In its possession the solid
silver eommuniOn service
Pres ented 60 Jamestown Church
, probably by James 1. from the patent Of
which the Kings daughter, made "all
glorious Within" partook for the first
time Of "the body OF our Lordp ard the
ehalice from which she drank His ''aton-
Ing blood" And here dwelt the descen-
Sants par excellence Of the early and
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