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. > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html