Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-18

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 drftwood de-
layed its 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 enthusiastically
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 ia
Their was somewhat disturbing. 1t 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 a party
detailed for the purpose of escorting
Hamilton, Farnsworth and several 9th
x,
1t also gave him a 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 ViDcennes, 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-
fee 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 n reference to an estate in
! herited from her Tarleton ancestors,
| and her name appears in old records
signed in full, Alice Tareton 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 II, as carefully guarded, is the In
dian charm stone that stopped Hamil-
tons 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.
Roussillons death in 1890 went to New
Orleans, where he stayed yer 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
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-
led his collection of scalps with great
funeral solemnity as his part of the
celebration of peace and independence
about the year 1884.
Good old Father Beret died suddenly
soon after Alice's marriage and depar-
ture for Virginia. He was found lying
face downward on the floor of his cab
in. Near him on smooth part of a
puncheon were the widowed frag
ments of letter which he had been ar
Doubtless it 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
a 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-
BILE welcome and the luxuries to which
they introduced him. They lived in a
stately white mansion on a 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