it is almost certain jane was removed from her grave before being butchered and eaten. she was not murdered. in 1625, george percy, president of jamestown during the starvation period, wrote that the hunger was so intense “thatt notheinge was spared to mainteyne lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves and to eate them." five other accounts refer to cannibalism during the bitter winter.