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Pocahontas, the legendary Native American daughter to a Chief was buried in St. George's Church in Gravesend.
Captain John Smith leader of the Jamestown English settlement in Virginia, told how Pocahontas prevented his death from beating by throwing herself across his body. She was also known for visiting Jamestown and providing food for the settlers.Pocahontas was later captured by the English, and taught Christianity, being baptised as Rebecca. She married English settler John Rolfe, leading to peace between her tribe and the settlers, with whom she had a son Thomas Rolfe. They visited England travelling to Plymouth and being feted as a Princess in London and meeting the King. On the return voyage to America they only made it down the Thames to Gravesend where gravely ill Pocahontas died. Today a statue to Pocahontas stands in the graveyard of St. George's, though the exact location of her grave is unknown. She also lived at Rolfe Hall in the Heacham, Norfolk. See on the Mapolah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=American_Indian_Princess - Pocahontas'_final_resting_place
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