not upheld by his wife and his two sons, who were adherents of Abraham Lincoln. His wife, Rebecca, was a distant cousin of John Henninger Reagan of Texas, Postmaster General of the Confederate States of America. In 1861, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Governor of Indiana Oliver P. Morton ordered that Perry County send its muskets to Indianapolis, Indiana, for the war. However, the weapons were removed by local residents and hid on Huckeby's property. A reward was offered for their return, but it was some time until the circumstances connected with the removal of the weapons were divulged. In 1864, Huckeby entertained Captain Edmund Morgan of the United States Navy paddle steamer at his home, the Virginia Place. This house, which is still standing, was built during the early 1850s and is believed by locals to be haunted. The house remained in the Huckeby/DeLaHunt family from 1856 to 1933. In 2007, Jill Harris Newton published a book about this entitled Ghosts of the Virginia Place. His two sons, Captain John Lang Huckeby and William Lamb Huckeby, served in the Civil War. His daughter, Rachel Littell (Huckeby) Mason was president of the Ladies' Patriotic Aid Association which supplied the Quartermaster-General at Indianapolis with much needed clothing for soldiers. Her husband, Judge Charles Holland Mason (1822–1894) served as a colonel during the war. His youngest daughter, Isabelle Huckeby, married Major Thomas James de la Hunt, Sr. (1835–1872) after the Civil War. Death Huckeby died at his home "Virginia Place" in Cannelton on the morning of March 22, 1889, at 87 years of age. He was survived by his wife and three children. His funeral took place from St. Luke's Episcopal Church on 24th. As the oldest Freemason in the county, his local lodge and the neighboring lodges from Tell City, Indiana, and Hawesville, Kentucky, were in attendance. He was interred in Cliff Cemetery in Cannelton. His grandson, Thomas James de la Hunt, Jr. (1866–1933) was a well-known writer and newspaper columnist. See also Charles Holland Mason Indiana House of Representatives Perry County, Indiana Robert Dale Owen William Hayden English References Goodspeed, Weston A. History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885. Cannelton Enquirer. March 30, 1889. Obituary of Joshua Brannon Huckeby, Esq. De La Hunt, Thomas James. Perry County, A History. Indianapolis, 1916. William Hayden English Family Papers, 1741–1928. Indiana Historical Bureau. August