El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-12


this time newly discovered facts X PRINCESS PocA
concerning that unhappy Indian nan,
Every native American treasures The MIGHTY AMERICAN
memories Of school days bright GENTLE HUMANE, s.
ened by the Fourth Reader EARLIEST sTsuceuNc 81
nance OF 3raTe captain John MOLLY RESCUED.
daughter of Chief Powhatan. How OK HER CONVERSION
the gallant English officer of Vir- IA -. -, -.
6onored for his soIdierv Qualities AND SHORTLY AFTERT
by the great chief. yet tried THoKAS RoLFEA SET
and condemned death ENGLAND Win HER HusI
GU OF braves tor me good OIL the RECEIVED BY QUEEN
bowed his head to receive the blow MIHt TWENTY SEC
from the executoneTs club she DIED At GRAVES
that dash his brains, Vi NATIVE
and how the tender and loving - THIS sPo1
Pocahontas rushed from her faith q
er's side and laid her own head HTZ777T77HzZzz7zZ
upon that of the condemned officer
barely in time to stay the fatal AE,;,I rbI.+ n D.
stroke and Captain Smiths memorial IaOlet 10
life-this in history and in legend, Church, Gra7
is one Of country's prOudest
historical possessions
In spite of doubt expressed BY some historians that Poca
hOntas actually saved the life Captain Smith in the
described in the legend there doubt at all that she
the ovees tenderes intelligent and greatest OF
all native American Indian princesses Her father the great
Powhatan lives in the history Of Colonial times as the abe
and noble Of all the celebrated rulers of confederJed
indian tribes HIS personal deneanor ms customs ana ms
in fact little short Of regal All these attributes
his favore daughter PocahOnas inherited and adorned with
her beauty and her fine personality.
Until she and loved Captain John Smith, her pros
Observation-Disclosures. but still great and powerful nation In
her natural right royal princess ever had better
prospects Of a useful and happy life
But the mingIing of white coIOred has
of Pocahontas caused her aspirations direction
bring the greater and swifter misfortune her The
gallant soldier whom she loved and saved did
not love her He treated consideration;
but went away England and forgot her
Then came the misfortune Of this unhappy prin
cess Another gallant English officer in Virginia
regiment fell deeply love with her She could not love
him loved the other But the spell OF the dom
mating seized her fine mind and heart In
April 1914, formally espoused the Christian faith and
was married to the English officer, John Role
following the known essential facts about POcahOnas
The Princess Pocahontas was daughter of POwhatan
chief mystery mani and ruler OF all the Indian
Pocshonas CbOTn about 1850 supposed have been
nineteen old when in 1914 she married John Rolfe
land in 1917 leaving one child son named Thomas
one child daughter named Jane.
Jane Rofe married in 1875 Robert Boiling of
his Virginia, who had to the Colony boy
his marriage. He OF John and Mary Boiling Of
Jane CRoifeJ Boiling died within year after her
rage, leaving child, a named John
John Boiling lived died Cobbs, the AppOmaox
below Petersburg He left one son and i've daughters
father Of William Holcomb Boiling.
Mrs Gait. the Presidents fancee, is daughter of Viii
The discoveries about Pocahontas above referred
existing records of her death and burial in Engandhe
ebeDess Of the tragic pavs of the old Greek dramatists
years after her marriage to John Rofe Pocahonas
went to England with her husband beauty,
and her personal charm her instant social
success aristocrac English She presented
the Court of ST. James by Lord and Lady Delaware and
the Bishop Of London gave great reception in her honor
Not only she distinguished princess but she the
American Indian be baptized Christian and
brought the fold Of the English Church She became the
of English arisocrac social life, in fact treated in
every way like princess royal
Captain John Smith distinguished hero Of the Eng
sh colony Of Virginia He also basking in the favOrs
aristocratc English soceyWhch undoubtedly
disappointed that he had equal to the de-
Of established and married the heroine who
had saved his life
The emotions Of POcahontas upon suddenly meeting Cap
tain Smith readily be imagined Being princess, all the
social distinctions showered her had not in the least
turned her head OF barbarous her natural emotions
had been Slapped by the hollow conventOnaes
Of civilized social life.
the shock Of again meeting the whom she had
perfectly loved the beginning of the tragic end? At
that in 1917, little more year after her
arrival England, PocahOntas's life ended Ia
mentable manner
Old agree that she a sudden decline.
onged for the grhoOd that husband
started with her back to Virginia They far the
sailing port Of Gravesend where Pocahontas stricken
then dreaded Of diseases smallpox
epidemic at the time. She lived only few days. A
tablet placed St Georges Church. Gravesend, per
petuaed the leading facts of life bural-in
inscription reproduced this page
The body Of PocahOntas supposed to have been
tered in the chancel Of the church But
excellent for believing that the
actual burial in keeping with tragedy
Of her life. The disease smallpox
dreaded that its victims put ground hastily
possible and without ceremony
out by the discovery Of what archaeoogsts
be the scua bones Of the Inflated princess