The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-02
HAVE TOMB FOR POCAHONTAS
May Bring The Remains Of The
Princess From England
MOVEMENT INAUGURATED IN vIRGIkIA
MEMORIAL COMMITTEE is NOW
FIGURING ON PLANS TO DIS
INTER THE REMAINS.
MOVEMENT INAuGuRATED IN VIRGINIA

NORFOLK, Va, April Zine me
mortal committee of the Pocahontas
association. which has in charge the
erection of a tomb or cenotaph for
Pocahontas at the jamestown EXPOSE
ton, it is understood, are striving to
secure the former.
Several influential Americans have
been writing to England recently with
the view of having the remains or
Powhatan's favorite daughter brought
back to her native land 1t will be
remembered that the Indian princess
became i'll shortly after the vessel
which was to bring her home had left
Grayesend and so i'll did she become
that the ship put back.
Pocahontas had been the toast of all
England; entertainments had been
planned in her honor, and medals
struck off to commemorate her visit to
court. She occupied in the English
eye the position of barbaric princess
whose father was emperor Of an IN
bounded area, and the captain hav-
ing charge of the vessel which bore
her was afraid to IRISH her precious life
on the high seas. Hardly had she dis
embarked when her illness became
very serious and within a few hours
she died. She was buried in the little
Gravesend church beneath the chan
Gel. The building was burned some
years ago, but the vaults were not
disturbed, therefore it is possible to
disinter the remains Of Pocahontas.
and it is unlikely that serious opposi-
ton will develop in England.
Whether the remains of Pocahontas
will lie beneath the memorial Or not.
the cap piece of statue which will sur
a value high in the estimate of his
tory lovers: since the bronze for the
statue will be case from old cannons
used during the revolutionary. war
and the colonial periods. Bas reliefs
will show Pocanhontas saving the life
of Captain John Smith: a replica of
the medal specially coined in her
honor by King James the First. a rep
resentation of the Indian princess
bearing corn to save the colonists. and
the fourth will be her marriage to
John Rolfe.
1t has been suggested that the statue
represent the princess in her garb Of
skins, holding out a welcoming hand
toward Hampton Roads an allegorical
design which needs little d,scernment
to translate, for alone among the IN
dams. Pocahontas displayed a spirit
of hospitality toward the whites. and
as Smith says, "next to God was most
instrumental in saving the colony"
The committees in the various
States which are collecting funds for
the memorial report gratifying pro-
gress, and this long neglected heroine
Of the seventeenth century is now Ger
tain to have a memorial to her fame
and virtues.
1t might have amused the stern and
battle-scarred John Smith and Chris
topher Newport to go through coro-
nation scene with Powhatan as the re-
cipient of the crown, serious and
solemn joke perpetrated by the wisest
fool in christendom, who commanded
that the Indian should be proclaimed
solemnly empress of Virginia This
might have been amusing, but Smith
certainly. and perhaps Newport, would
have lovingly placed upon the brow of
Pocahontas laurels of gold or precious
stones. She has been a long time
without any tribute. but is not des-
tined to remain unrecognized longer
The approaching Jamestown ter
centennial affords an ideal opportunity
for this glorification of Pocahontas.
since jamestown might have been i'm
possible without her aid. and it is very
appropriate that the whole country
should take an interest in the memo
rial. because if Jameston had not
been preserved, the United States
might never have been