The mother of the two boys about whom this list has been discussing their
Union clemency petitions.... has a tale to tell.  From George May's book on
Port Republic we find the following:

Her son, Reuben, (the one that later made his brothers Zachariah and Henry
recipients of his estate) in 1855 went to California and a few years later
sent his mother a check for $1000.  She took it Gen. Samuel H. Lewis at
Lewiston and requested him to get it cashed for her the next time he went
to Harrisonburg.  When she left home some days later to go get her money
from General Lewis she did not go direct but went down to the home of her
son for a short visit.  From her son's home she took a short cut to Port
Republic and was murdered in the woods.  Evidently the murder thought she
had the money on her.  When search was made for her body, bits of her dress
were found on bushes here and there, but as the body seemed to have been
moved from place to place, it was never found.

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