The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-24


remarkable resemblance between that
signat ure and the signature of a later
member OF the family which appears
on the Declaration Of Independence of
the United States in close prox-
unity to that of the illustrious Frank
lin.
of the Harrison who signed the
death warrant OF the king, that in
in1itable gossip. Samuel Pepys, has
this to say in his diary on the 18th of
October. 1850;
Il went out to Charing Cross TO see
Major General Harrison hanged. drawn
and quartered; it was done there's he
looked as cheerful as any man could
do in that condition. He was presently
cut down and his head and heart
shown to the people, at which there
were great shouts of joy. 1t is said
that he said that he was sure to come
shortly at the right hand of Christ to
judge them that now judged him and
that his wife do expect his coming
again. Thus il was my chance to see
the king beheaded at Whitehall and to
see the first blood shed in revenge to
the king at Charing Cross
Historians also say that when the
king was in General Harrison's Gus
tody on his conveyance from Windsor
to Whitehall for trial he was struck
with the latters soldierly appearance,
and he told him he had been informed
that he (HarriSOn) would ASA SSinate
him. Harrison replied that parliament
would not strike the king secretly.
Major General Harrison's descend
/ ants emigrated shortly after his exc
cution to Virginia, and a member of
l. the family made mis- appearance in the
| house of burgesses there prior to the
revolution. Indeed, the family had be-
! come prominent one in the Old Do
miniOn at the time of the beginning of
the revolution
Thus it came. that Benjamin Harrf-
son, great-grandfather of the late ex-
| president was one of the signers of
the Declaration of independence, sign
ing almost under Robert Treat Paine,
ana playing almost a prominent part
! IN public affairs from 1774 until his
death, in 1871. He had been for four
years a member OF congress and three
times governor of Virginia
General William Henry Harrison his
son, who was elected president of the
( United States in 1910, served his coun-
try almost continuously from 1891 TO
lS4l, both in military and civil positions
His national reputation was won by
/ the victory ever the great Indian chief,
/ Tecumseh. at the battle of Tippecanoe
IN ISL He vas member of congress,
/ United States senator from Ohio, min
/ lister 10 the republic OF Colombia, and
/ was elected president of the United
/ States in November, 1910. He filled the
] Office of president just one month. from
/ March to April 4, 1871. when he died.
President Tyler succeeded him.
g q g
John Scott Harrison, the father, was
! a member of congress from 1853 to 1851
I He died at his home in Cincinnati eight
or nine years ago. Benjamin. Harrison
/ was born at North Bend, O., Aug 20
1888, and first saw the light on the
! bluffs of the Ohio river about fifteen
miles below Cincinnati.
1t has been said that besides his de-
/ scent from the Signer of the death war
rant of king, he had also celebrated
Indian blood in his veins, being one oi
the great army of descendants from
the Economically celebrated IndiaT
princess, Pocahontas. Mr. Harrison's
descent from the Indias princess has
been traced in this wiae:
| King Powhatan, Sachem of the Indi.
ans of eastern Virginia. who died il
1913. had a daughter. the celebrated
/ Poca hontas VINO was born in Virginia
{ married John Rolfe,r as his second wife
April >, 1914. Rolfe was then Aving il
| Henrico county, Virginia, and had fo1
some time been secretary of the Vir
Sinia colony.
Their son, Thomas RoIfe of Henrict
county. Virginia, married Jane Rogers
or Poythers of England and had al
only daughter, Jane Rolfe. This daugh
ter married, in 1875, Colonel Rober
Boiling of Kippax in Virginia, and dice
in 1876. She had one son. Major Eohl
Boiling of Cobbs, near Petersburg, Va.
born in 1876. died 1923, who married
Mary, first daughter of Captain Rich
ard Kenyon of Honduras Neck, nea
Petersburg. and had a daughter, Jam
| Boiling. who married Colonel RicharC
Randolph of Curles, in Virginia, some
times treasurer of the Virginia colony
and had a son. Richard Randolph o
CurIes. who married Anne, daughte
of David Meade of Nansemond, Va
and had a daughter, Susan Randolph
who married Governor Benjamin Har
rison of Berkeley, Va, member of tn
Virginia house of burgesses, delegat
TO the centennial congress of 1916 an
signer of the Declaration Of Independ
ence, whose son was General William
| Henry Harrison of North Bend, o., al
forwards president of the United States
Through their connection with tn
Randolphs the Harrisons are relates
to such prominent Virginia families 9.
the Lees, Carriers, Popes, Robertsons
Kenyons, Skipwiths, Beverleys, Gays
Flemmings, Murrays and Meades.