Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13

erected by the garrison and populace. |
4 courier whom they picked up on the
Ohio came with them. He bore dis
patches from Governor Henry of Vir-
kinia to Clark and letter for Rever
ley from his father.
The letter to Beverley from his ia
Their was somewhat disturbing 1t bore
the tilings of his mothers failing
health. This made it easier for the
young lieutenant to accept from Clark
the assignment to duty with a party
detailed for the purpose Of escorting
Hamilton, Farnsworth and several 9th
ar 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 a 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 it's 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,
hut that would be another story. Suf-
flce 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
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
locket, with its broken miniature and
battered crest, which Won Beverley's
life from Long Hair. the savage. Be-
side it, as carefully guarded, is the In
dian charm stoce that stopped Hamil-
|lton's bullet over Alice's heart. The ra-
piers have somehow disappeared, and
there is a tradition in the Tarleton
family that they were given by Alice
to Gaspard Roussillon, who after Nine.
Roussiuon's death in 1870 went to New
Orleans, where he stayed year or
two before embarking for France,
| whittier he took with him the beautiful
pair of cOlechemardes and Jean, the
hunchback.
Oncle Jazon lived in Vincennes many
died at Natchez, Miss, when ninety
three years old. He said with almost
his last breath that he couldn't shoot
very we'll even in his best days, but
that he had upon various occasions
''jes' kind O. happened to hit lnjun in
the lef' eye They used to tell Il story
as late as General Harrison's stay in
Vincennes about how Oncle Jazon bur
led his collection of scalps with great
funeral solemnity as his part of the
celebrate of peace and independence
about the year 1854.
Good old Father Beret died suddenly
soon after Alice's marriage and depur-
ture for Virginia. He was found lying
face downward on the floor Of his cab
In. Near him on a smooth part of Il
puncheOn were the widowed frag-
ments of letter which he had been ar
| ranging as If to read its contents
Doubtless it was the same letter
brought to him by Rene de Ronville. as
recorded In an early chapter OF oul
story. The fragments were gathered
up and buried with him. His dust lie.
under the present Church of ST. Xavier
the dust of as noble a man and as true
priest as ever sacrificed himself fol
the good Of humanity.
In after years Simon Kenton visited
Beverley and Alice in their Virgins
home. To his dying day he was fonC
Of describing their happy and hospita
BILE welcome and the luxuries to which
they introduced him. They lived in {
stately white mansion on Il hill over
looking vast tobacco plantation
where hundreds of negro slaves worked
and sang by day and frolickcd 10y
night. Their oldest child was named
Fitzhugh Gaspard. Kenton died il
1885,
There remains but one little fac
worth recording before we close tn.
book. III the year 1900, on the Fourth
Of July, a certain leading French fumi
~ of Vincennes held patriotic rcun
ion during which a little old flag wa
produced and it's story told. Some on,
happily proposed that it be sent to Mrs
Alice Tarleton Beverley with q lctte
Of explanation and in profound recog
milton of the glorious circumstance
which made it the true flag Of III
great northwest.
And 50 it happened that Alice's littl
banner went to Virginia and is still
preserved In an old mansion not YER
far from Monticello, but it seems likel,
that the Wabash valley will soon agail
possess the precious relic. The mar
rage engagement of Miss Alice Rever
ley to young Indiana officer, distin
guished for his patriotism and militia
~ ardOr, has been announced at tn
old Beverley homestead on the hill. an,
the high contracting parties have plan
ned that the wedding ceremony sha]
take place under the famous little fla
on the anniversary of Clark's captur
Of Post Vincennes. When the brid
shall. be brought to her new home o.
the banks of the Wabash the flag wi
come with her. but Oncle Jazon Wi
not be on hand with his falsetto shou,