Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24
Memorial Tablet to Pocahontas in ST. GEORGES
Church, Gravesend, England.

historical possessions
actually the life Of CAPTAIN smith in be aa
r described in the legend there is doubt
al native American Indian prncesscs father great
Of al tie er5 of lHe
e naan 1 oe His Tsona his customs and his
ms tavoe daughter Pocahontas, inherited
She met, and loved Captain John Smith her pros.
G but m and noos9 by Whole
ne own natural right no royal princess had better
minslinG of the White and the coored races has
OF Focahontas aspirations TO
bring the greater and swfer misfortune her. The
but went away to England and forgot her.
Then the misfortune of this unhappy prn.
Another gallant English officer in same Virginia
him as had loved me other But the spell of tho no' DOME GSe
aatng white race had seized upon her fine mind
was married TO the English officer. John Rolfc,
Princess pocahontas was daughter of Powhatan
Mero"ance chcl mystery mani and ruler of all the Indian
n min years old when in S she married John Roe
land 1917. leaving child named Thomas -14'
Thomas Role married Jane Poythress the issue being
Jane Rolfe in 1875 Boiling, the first of
OF fourteen He was twenynine old the time of
49, Jane ,soe1 Boiling died within year mar
John Boiling lived al Cobbs on the Appomatox
This sons great grandson. Archibald Boiling, the
father OF William IIocomb Boiling
Mrs Gait. the Presidents fancee, IS daughter of viii.
liam Ilolcomb Boiling.
The discoveries about referred to
VIII be seen TO bear out in quite marvellous
existing records OF her death and burial in Englandhe
plelon OF the tragedy of her life newt
abgness OF the tragic plays of the old Greek
with her husband Her bean her ne
gence and her great personal charm her
the Court OF st. Lady Delaware and
the Bishop OF London honor
Not only was she DISTINGUISHED princess. but the
hrst native American Indian Christian and
brought into the fold OF the English Church.
idol of English arstocratic social fe in in
like
Captain John Smith distinguished of the Eng
fish colony of Virginia He also basking favors
what disappointed that he had proved equal to the de-
mands of established romance and heroine who
had saved his life.
The emotions of Pocahontas
tain Smith readily be imagined Being princess all the
social distinctions showered upon her had not
turned her head OF barbarous her
had not been Slapped away by the hollow
of civilized social life
Was the shock of meeting man whom she had SC
perfectly loved the beginning of the tragic any
know that in 1917 than year after her
arrival in England, Pocahontass ended in most Ia
menable manner
Old agree went into a sudden decline
and onged for the Of her grhood
started with her back Virginia They got as far as the
sailing of Gravesend where was stricken
with that then dreaded Of Diseases smallpox which
tablet placed in ST. Georges Church, Gravesend per
petuated the leading life and bura-in The
Inscription reproduced this page
The body of Pocahonas supposed to have been in.
terred IN the chancel of the church. But have
eXceent reasons for believing that the her
acLua nurla were in keeping with the lamenabe tragedy
OF her life The disease smallpox vrulent and
SO mat its tm under hastily
as possbe and without And this
out by the recent discovery what believe
to be the actual bones faed princess in an uncaed