Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

oll the COtSt OI BERMUDA, ana his young
wife. who died amid that frightful tenn
pest, lies today in the island with the dust
of her infant mingling with her own
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Thrown constantly with the beautiful cap
tive the lonely heart of the widower turned
to her, and in seeking the sanction of the
governor to his suit he writes that his
affections are entangled and enthralled."
But Capt. Smith had long ago sought and
gained the love of the maiden and II was
only when convinced of his death In a sea
fight off the Azores that she lent reluctant
ear to his wooing. They were married
April. 1913, in the little church at James
town, decked for the occasion In divers
sweet and heartsome forest flowers" while
buff jenkins and gold-laced doubets rub
bling the bare, dusky shoulders of feathered
chiefs" crowded the building. In the chan
Gel the groom with the Rev. Mr. Whitaker,
In bands and surplice awaited the bride,
who, wearing the conventional dress her
dark beauty half concealed by her white
veil, and a hid sorrow in her great, down
dropped eyes. walked down the aisle with
her uncle, Opachisco while Nantoquaus
her best loved brother followed near.
Two years later with their infant son the
couple went to England. the governor. Sir
Thomas Dale and Anas Todkill, the ad-
herent of Capt. Smith, accompanying Poca-
hontas introduced at court and al
though Rolfe was descended from q Danish
king (his ancestors being among the Vik-
ings who overran Great Britain, and the
names Of his great great grandparents,
Eustace and Joanna Rolfe, the first re-
corded in Doomsday book James l did not
fall to rebuke him for his marriage with
a princess, unsanctioned by himself. The
young American became the fashion in
court circles. The lord bishop of London
gave her an entertainment at his palace of
Lambeth, Lord de la Ware declaring that
she carried herself as of the blood royal,
true daughter of a king
And now the sensation of the hour was
the presentation at the Globe Theater of
Shakespeare's Virginia play The Tenn
pest" the Island of Bermuda, its scene,
having been annexed to that colony by the
charter of 1872. 1t had a two-fod interest
for Rolfe. for the storm which wrecked the
Sea Venture suggested it, and Miranda, the
dukes daughter with poetic license), was
none other than his Indian bride. The
couple occupied the royal box with their
majesties, near Pocahontas being Anas Tod
kill. Gay sounds and scenes were all about
them, when suddenly Todkill observed his
companion trembling violently. A DEATH
like pallor overspread her face, and follow
ing her fixed dilated gaze he saw, half con-
cealed by the stage hangings, Capt. John
Smith, talking with Shakespeare.
From this, it has been said. the forest
flower faded and when preparing to take
ship for America at Gravesend, she died.
inscription:
1916 March 81, Rebecca Wrolfe wyffe
of John WroIfe, gent, a Virginia lady
born, was buried in the chancel"
Her son, Thomas Rolfe, was educated in
London, living with his fathers brother
until 1910, when he returned to America and
took possession of his patrimonial estates
sixteen miles below Richmond. He be-
came a of note in the colony, marry
ing Jane Poythress. and being the progeni-
tor of John Randolph of Roanoke and
many another distinguished Virginian.
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And now it transpires that Capt. Smith
also married, becoming the head of a fam