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"Hut before he had (rotten eold, Miss Lucy Twisdale, rid;Eg horseback looking for some cows that ha a been stolen from her widowed sister, Mrs. Alice Reid, lode upon this detachment of noithern soldiers. Like many another Virginia young woman in those trying days, she was brave and unafraid, and from the accounts handed down to us, we conclude that in the altercation between her and the soldiers she held up her side with courage and daring, and to such a degree that one of the soldiers told her, finally, if she did not hush, she would share the same fate of ‘that man.’ Turning, she saw the dead body of Willis hanging from a tree.
“She returned to the village and reported what she had seen, and some of the citizens went to the scene, cut the body down, brought it to Flint'Hill and buried it in the church yard of the Bap- ’ tist church. From this incident th,e ‘Shiloh Church’ became in name ‘Willis Chapel.’
“A good many years ago, Mrs. Joseph Reid succeeded in getting a marker for the grave of Willis through Mrs. Bailie Davis, whose Husband was one of Mushy's Men.— It was put in place by Mr. Reid and Mr. Bob Eastham, who was also one of Mosby’s Men.”
The wife of Joe Reid wrote to President Herbert Hoover and in graceful terms dwelt upon the President’s great interst in the mountain people of this section. She gave a brief history of the chuich, which had just been completed, and the reason for its construction, and presumed to ask him for a contribution.
Almost by return mail came a check for $25 from the President, with a most gracious letter saying that as soon as possible for one of his secretaries to do so, he would have him look for a bell.
In ten days, October 7, 1929, the bell arrived at Front Royal, express prepaid.
Joe Reid, a wood-carver of great artistic skill and merit, in recognition of the President’s most gracious benefaction, sent him the masterpiece of all his productions, a can cut from the woods surrounding the President’s sum
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