The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-26

who, thirteen years before the coming of the
Pilgrim Fathers. made the first permanent Eng
1ish colony in the Western world.
A distinguished company journeyed to the his
toric spot on the occasion of the unwilling.
1t included the donors of the statue; the officers
and members of the Pocahontas Memorial associa-
ton, of whom a large number were from Wash
1ngton the officers and members of the AssOcia-
ton for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities;
nneaI descendants of the intrepid Indian princess.
and many notables from distant parts Of the
country.
All wore the gay green and yellow ribbon on
which, in gold letters, was ommemorated the
corn which Pocahontas brought to the starving
settlers and the tobacco which was their currency.
Dr. Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, president of
William and Mary College, was chairman of the
ceremonies and the student body acted as ushers.
Ina. Pocahontas is no myth was attested by a
group of children on each side of the statue,
lineal descendants of the Indian princess, the
Misses Elizabeth Epes Tickling and Caroline
Banister Baker of Washington, Harriet Nichols
Garrett and Aurelia Huger Terry of Virginia.
Masters Richard Minor Ely, Nathaniel Coleman
Dryden, Frank Robertson Blackford and J. Stan
ard and Lloyd Archer, Jr.
Pocahontas, according to unquestioned history,
was taken as a hostage to jamestown in 1913, and
baptized, receiving the name Rebecca. In 1914
she married John Rolfe. She went to England In
1916 and was made much of by the court. After
a short stay she prepared to return and died of
consumption just before the sailing date. She
left one son, Thomas Rolfe, from whom a num-
Der of f. F. VS. claim descent. These include
some of the Randolphs, Murrays, Guys, Whites,
Elbridges and Bollings-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson,
born Boiling, is a descendant.
So Pocahontas has come into her own at last.
And the Pocahontas Memorial association pur-
poses to increase her fame in the land. The as
ISOLATION was formed in Washington in 1905 and
incorporated in 1906, with the pledge of COM
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dian princess by the erection of memorials such
as was unveiled on jamestown island.
The society will continue its work in historic
research and publish documents bearing on the
jamestown colony and the Indian wars of the
era. There are about three thousand members
in this national organization and branches gov
erned by regents are established in nearly all the
states and insular possessions.
In emulation of the work of the Pocahontas as
ISOLATION the Smiths are getting ready to do
something for the memory of their ancestor
who should be more famous in America than he is.
It's time they did. There are but three reminders
of him in this country: one in the congressional
library at Washington one in a church in Smith
field, Va, and Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay.
The Captain John Smith Memorial association,
with headquarters in Norfolk, Va, is about to open
a campaign to rehabilitate the memory of the
savior Of the jamestown colony. For to him,
quite as much as to Pocahontas, the jamestown
colony owed its escape from extinction. 1t is
proposed to bring his remains to the United
States and to entomb them in the old lighthouse
at Cape Henry. built in 1889, near which the
first English settlers landed. Near by they pro-
pose to erect an imposing monument.
Capt. John Smith was buried in the obscure
parish church of st. Sepulchre, London, and moth
ing but a commonplace stone marks the spot.
The British government has been approached on
the subject of transferring the remains.
Capt. John Smith was an adventurer Of re-
known before he came to Virginia. He was born