Boulder County is in Colorado. Yup, my grandma went to Boulder Prep Shcool housed first in the attic of the Hale scientific building, the only building besides "Old Main", at the time, on the campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Normal School was like junior college is today and that is where she got her teaching certificate.

When she was 76 yers old, she broke her writing arm, so trained herslef to write with the other and penned her memoirs during a long convalecense. As she was a terrific writer and teacher, they are chock full of info on the early days of Boulder and the surrounding territory as well as New Castle, on the Western Slope of Colorado where she and my granddad eventually settled and had my mom and her siblings.

Peter, that is very interesting about the book. I don't know if they had a copy or not, but I will ask my aunt, who is now almost 90 and sharp as a tack.

Amos, the only information I have on my great-granddad's military service is from a "State Historical Society of Colorado Portrait and Biographical Record." It says, John N. Ewing, "took part in the battles of Cain Hill, Prairie Grove, and many skirmishes." He was mustered out at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. While in the Army, he applied for and was granted a short furlough and on Spet. 4, 1862, went back to Kansas and married my great-grandmother, Miss Amanda Hodgson. On the 7th, he returned to his command.

After the war he homesteaded 160 acres in Kansas and then in 1880, joined a wagon train of four wagons and spent four weeks traveling to Boulder, arriving on May 26th.

Grandma Flora also had this to say about him and his was service, The Civil War songs were always favorites. Father had a good voice, though untrained. Sometimes we could induce him to sing Tenting on the old camp ground or Just before the battle mother.

I can't find the reference right now, but she also related that her father would never talk about the War and refused to get out his sword/saber? when the children would ask. She also said that he first gave one of his two plow horses to the Union when they put out a call for horses. when they asked for his remaining horse, he joined up, too.

Thanks for your comments and interest. Bonnie, I am sure you are right...they probably were very grateful for what they received. It certainly sounds as though he was a kind and gracious, yet stern father, well-loved by my grandmother.