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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