The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-08-10

who, thirteen years before the coming of the
Pilgrim Fathers. made the first permanent Eng
fish colony i'm the Western world
distinguished company iourneyed to the his
toric spot on the occasion of the unwilling.
IL included the donors of the statue: the officers
and members of the PocahontaS Memorial associa-
ton. of whom large number were from Wash
lngton; the officers and members of the Associa
ti"n for the Preservation Of Virginia Antiquities ;
lineal descendants of the Intrepid Indian princess
ana many nOtabes from distant parts of the
country.
All wore the gay green and yellow ribbon on
which, In gold letters, was commemorated tbe
corn which POcahOntas brought 10 the starving
settlers and the tobacco which was their currency
Dr. Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler president Of
"illiain and Mary College, was chairman of the
ceremonies and the student body acted as ushers
ina: Pocahontas is myth was attested nv q
group Of children on each side of the stotue
nneaI descendants of the Indian princess rho
Misses Elizabeth Epes Tickling and Caroline
Banister Baker of Washington. Harriet Nichols
Garret and Aurelia Huger Terry of VIRGINIA
Masters Richard Minor Ely. Nathaniel Coleman
Dryden. Frank Robertson BIackford and 7 Stan.
ard and Lloyd Archer Jr
Pocahontas. according 10 unGuestioped history
was taken as hostage ~ jamestown in l613 and
baptized receiving the name Rebecca In 1e11
she married John Rolfe She went To ENGLAND in
1916 and was made mach of by the court After
" SHUT stay Sne prepared 10 return and died NJ
consumption just before the sailing date Sba
left one son, Thomas Rolfe from whom nup,
Der of F. F. VS. claim descent These incIuds
some of the Randolphs, Murrays, Guys, Whittles
ElbridgeS and Bollings-Mrs Woodrow Wilson
born Boiling, is descendant
Sc PocahontaS has come into her own ot Iast
And the Pocahontas Memorial association mr..
poses 10 increase her fame in the land The as
ISOLATION was formed in Washington in 1907 and
Incorporated in 1906, with the pledge of COM
memoratlng the life and heroic deeds of the In
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 established in nearly all the
states and nsuar possessions
In emulation of the work of the Pocahontas &C.
ISOLATION the Smiths getting ready Tn do
something for the memory of their ancestor
who should be more famous in America than no il
It's time they did. There are but three reminders
of him in this country: one in the congressional
library Mt washington; one in a church in Smith
held Va, and Smith Island in Chesapeake Raw
The Captain John Smith Memorial association.
with headquarters in Norfolk, Va is about to onen
a campaign to rehabilitate tho memory of the
savior Of the jamestown colony For TO him
quite as much as to Pocahon;s, the jamestown
colony owed its escape from extinction II 10
proposed to bring his remains to the United
States and to entomb them in the old lighthouse
at Cape Henry, built in 1852, near which the
hrst 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 commonplace stone n4arks the snot
The British government has been approached on
the subject of transferring the remains
capt. John Smith was adventurer of re-
known before he came to Virginia He was horn