Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-24
Memorial Tablet to Pocahontas in St. Georges
Church, Gravesend, England.

historical possessions.
In spite doubt expressed by
hontas actually saved the life of Captain Smith the
the oveest tenderest intelligent greatest of
all native American Indian Her father the great
Powhatan lives in the history of Colonial times the abet
and most noble of all the celebrated rulers of confederated
court were in fact little short Of regal All these
his avore daughter Poahonas inherited and adorned with
her beauty and her fine personality 60
Until she met and loved Captain John Smith her pros
es GL s and po%e ny In
her natural right no royal princess ever had better
prospects of useful and happy life
always proved disastrous to the latter The very superiority
her aspirations in that direction to
bring the greater and swfer misfortune upon her The
not love her He treated her with the utmost consideration
but away to England and forgot her.
cess Another gallant English officer in that Virginia
regiment fell deeply in love with her She could not love
mating seized her fine mind and heart In
april 1871 she formally a. se the O6D Christian R faith and
following the known essential facts about Pocahontas
The Princess Pocahontas daughter of Powhatan,
chief mystery mani and ruler of all the Indian
Pocshontas CboFn 1880 is supposed to have been
first secretary Colony Virginia She died in Eng
land in 1917 leaving one child son named Thomas nor
child, daughter named Jane.
his in Virginia who had come to the Colony as boy
of fourteen He was twentynine years old at the time OF
his sra He %sS son of John and Mary Boiling of
Jane (fsoifeJ Boiling died within year after
John Boiling lived and died at Cobbs on the Appomatox
below Petersburg He left one son and FIVE daughters
This sons great grandson, Archibald Boiling the
father of William Holcomb Boiling
Mrs Gait Presidents fancee is daughter Of VIII
liam Holcomb Boiling.
The new discoveries Pocahonas above referred
will be to bear out in quite marvellous manner the
existing death burial in Englandhe
peon tragedy of life which has all the newt
abeness tragic plays of the old Greek drsmass
Two years marriage John Rolfe Pocahontas
England with her husband Her beauty her inte
gence great personal her instant social
aristocrac English circles. She presented
at the Court ST. by and Lady Delaware and
the Bishop of London great reception in her honor
first native American Indian to be baptized christian ana
the fold Of the English Church She became the
idol of English arisocrac social e in fact treated In
every way like princess royal
Captain John Smith distinguished hero OF the Eng
fish colony of Virginia He also basking in the fayors
of aristocratic English undoubtedly was some
what disappointed that he had equal to the de-
established and married the heroine who
had saved his ife
The emotions of Pocahontas upon suddenly meeting Cap
tain Smith readily be imagined Being princess all the
social showeTed her had not in the least
turned her head barbarous emotions
had not Slapped by the hollow conventionales
Was the shock of again meeting whom she had SC
perfectly the beginning OF the tragic end? At
know that in 1917 little more than year after her
arrival in England Pocahontass life ended in most la
old accounts agree that she went into sudden decline
and SO onged for grhood that husband
started with her Virginia. They got far the
sailing port Gravesend where Poeahontas stricken
was epidemic at the time She lived only few days
tablet placed in St Georges Church, at Grayessnd
petuated the leading facts OF her life and buria-n the
inscription reproduced on this page
of Pocahontas supposed TO have been in
excellent reasons believing
actual keeping with the lamentable tragedy
dreaded that it's victims under ground hastily
possible and without And this custom borne
out by the recent discovery OF what archaeoogs believe
to be the actual bones of the Inflated princess in uncared