This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rowley Umbarger Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3EC.2ACE/77.1.1.2 Message Board Post: What state did Samuel serve under in the Civil War? Here is a little something I have on Nancy Mrs. Mary (Rowley) Umbarger, even before the death of her soldier husband was called upon to provide for her children. What she accomplished proves her to be a woman of remarkable perseverance and force of character. She was born in 1844 of sturdy Pennsylvania stock. While her husband was in the army she purchased on credit a yoke of oxen, placed her children in the wagon, (Harlton being two years old) and wielding the whip herself started for Fort Dodge, Iowa. Under her rights as a soldier's wife she filed on one hundred and sixty acres in Pocahontas county, Iowa, which became hers in her own name on the death of her husband. On this western homestead this remarkable woman was able to care for her children, manage a farm and go to school in order to prepare herself to teach, which she did for thirty Y ears in Iowa and Washington. In 1883 she heard that a brother whom she had not seen for thirty years was at La Conner, Washington, and there she went, leaving her boys,! then grown, in charge of the Ioas farm. She found her brother and remained in Washington, teaching first near La Conner, then opening the first school at Avon. She was quite successful in land speculation. In 1888 she married James McCain, an ex-soldier, who died in 1891. She lived with his stepchildren until the estate was settled and then moved back to Avon and stayed there until failing health forced her to return to her son Harlton's home, remained there until her death. NOTE: I believe the brother that is referred to here is John Rowley, as he is listed also in the Skagit County, Washington Article as a gold miner