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Note: Family oral history: The family home was within 1-2 miles of the battle site. Mary Ellen remembered standing on the front porch of their home, listening to the cannon and sounds of battle. Her father Hance was at Shiloh 'tending horses'. Union soldiers were thought to have camped on their land, dubbed 'Stoney Lonesome' by a Union soldier far from home, trying to sleep on rocky ground, in the cold and rainy April weather. Hance moved his family to Montague Co TX around 1870. Mary Ellen remembed the carpetbaggers who came to TN after the war. As her family crossed the Mississippi on a ferry or raft of some kind, Mary Ellen saw another ferry/raft carrying a family and their wagon, capsize; all were lost.
After husband Robert's death, Mary Ellen went to OK to live with her daughter Birdie, died and is buried there, though she and Robert's names are on his tombstone, in Montague Co TX. Not returning her to Texas to be buried beside her husband caused some friction in the family among her children.
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