Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-30

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 N of Hamilton large boat, the
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 A AA kia. 1t was well manned and heavily armed. Clark fitted it out be- fore beginning his march and expected it to be of great assistance to him in the reduction of the fort, but the high waters and the floating driftwood de layed it's progress, so that its disap- pointed crew saw Alice's flag floating bright and high when their eyes first looked upon the dull little town from far down the swollen river. There was much rejoicing, however, when they came ashore and were enthusiastica greeted by the garrison and populace. A courier whom they picked up on the Ohio came with them. He bore dis patches from Governor Henry of Vir- ginia to Clark and a letter for Bever- ley from his father.
 The letter to Beverley from his fa- ther was somewhat disturbing. It bore the tidings of his mothers failing health This made it easier for the young lieutenant to accept from Clark the assignment to duty with party detailed for the purpose Of escorting Hamilton, Farnsworth and several oth- CT British officers to Williamsburg, Va. It also gave him most powerful as- sistance in persuading Alice to marry him at once, so as to go with him on what proved to be delightful wedding journey through the great wilderness to the Old Dominion. Springs verdure burst abroad on the sunny hills as they slowly went their way. The mating birds sang in every blooming brake and grove by which they passed, and in their Joyous hearts they heard the bubbling of loves eternal fountain.
 Our story must end here, because at this point its current flows away for ever from old Vincennes and it was only of the post on the Wabash that we set out to make a record. What befell Alice and Beverley after they went to Virginia we could go on to tell, but that would be another story. Suf- flee it to say, they lived happily ever after, or at least somewhat beyond threescore and ten, and left behind them a good name and numerous de- scendants.
 How Alice found out her family in Virginia we are not informed, but after a lapse of some years from the date of her marriage there appears in one of her letters reference to an estate in- herited from her Tarleton ancestors, and her name appears in old records signed in full, Alice Tarleton Beverley. A descendant of hers still treasures the loclSet with it's broken miniature and battered crest, which won Bever.ey's Ia life fTorn f. Long Hair, the, savage Be dian charm stone that stopped Hamil- tons bullet over Alice's heart. The ra- piers have somehow disappeared, and there is tradition in the Tarleton family that they were given by Alice to Gaspard Roussillon. wAo after Mime. Rouss1llon's- death Tn 17o0 went to New Orleans, where he stayed a year or two before embarking for France, whither he took with him the beautiful pair of colechemardes and Jean, the hunchback
 Oncie Jazon lived in Vincennes many years after the war was over, but he died at Natchez, Miss. when ninety three years old. He said with almost his last breath that he couldn't shoot very well even in his best days, but that he had upon various occasions 'jes' kind O happened to hit Injun in the lef' eye" They used to tell story as late as General Harrison's stay in Vincennes about how Oncle Jazon bur fed his collection of scalps with great funeral solemnity as his part of the celebration of peace and independence about the year 17S4.
 Good old Father Beret died suddenly soon after Alices marriage and depar- ture for Virginia. He was found lying face downward on the floor of his cab in. Near him on a smooth part of puncheon were the mildewed frag- ments>of letter which he had been ar ranging as If to read its contents. Doubtless 1t was the same letter brought to him by Rene de Ronville, as recorded in an early chapter of our story. The fragments were gathered up and buried with him. His dust lies under the present Church of St Xavier, the dust of as noble man and as true priest as ever sacrificed himself for the good of humanity.
 In after years Simon Kenton visited Beverley and Alice in their Virginia home. To his dying day he was fond of describing their happy and hospita- ble welcome and the luxuries to which they introduced him. They lived in stately white mansion on hill over looking vast tobacco plantation where hundreds of negro slaves worked and sang by day and frolicked by night. Their oldest child was named Fitzhugh Gaspard. Kenton died in 1886.
 There remains but one little fact worth recording before we close the book. Tn the year 180O on the Fourth of July, certain leading French fami- ly of Vincennes held patriotic reun- ion during which little old flag was produced and it's story told. Some one happily proposed that it be sent to Mrs. Alice Tarleton Beverley with letter of explanation and in profound recog- milton of the glorious circumstances