page 225....the chapter on Zachariah Raines,

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:10 PM, robert yingst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Do you have a page reference from the George Elliott May book on Port
> Republic you quote below?
> Thanks
> On Apr 16, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Madaline Preston wrote:
>
> > 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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