This is a good website too. The photograph section is great.

http://www.sharlot.org/archives/

I got the following story from it...

Territorial Women's Memorial Rose Garden
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MARGARET ANN MARTIN JACKSON DUMAS

Margaret Ann, Daughter of Hudson and Nancy Thorpe Martin, was born in Greenville, Nelson County, Virginia, on January 20, 1834. Margaret married Andrew Jackson, nephew of General Stonewall Jackson, on December 16, 1858 and the couple lived in Broxton County, West Virginia.

In April 1861 Andrew joined the confederate Army and was made Captain of Company B-19th Virginia Cavalry. Margaret was ordered north in the fall of 1863. Al her possessions and property were confiscated and she was allowed to take only two saddle bags of clothing with her. She was carried on horse back under a flag of truce through the confederate lines to her house in Virginia. During his four years of service Captain Jackson came home to visit his wife three times.

At the close of the war Andrew and Margaret moved to South Carolina and in 1867 they started west by ox teams. After staying in Texas for a while they headed to the northwest and eventually returned south arriving in Prescott, Arizona on January 1, 1876. They decided to settle on lower Oak Creek and Margaret was the first white woman to live there. Living among the warring Apaches, she saw many fierce outbreaks and raids.

Andrew traveled about the country trading and handling stock leaving Margaret at home alone to tend to the livestock and ranch chores. She related that many times she saw and heard the yelling Indians on the hills nearby but she was never molested and remained secluded in her small cabin. The couple only had on child and it passed away in infancy,

Three years after the death of Andrew, Margaret married David E. Dumas on October 13, 1895. The couple continued to live on the lower Oak Creek Ranch and in 1896 were joined by Mack Oliver Dumas, David’s sixteen year old son whom Margaret came to love dearly. In 1905 the family moved to a ranch at the foot of Court House Rock in the Red Rock Country. Dad and Mother Dumas were known throughout the valley for their warm hospitality. Never was a person refused a meal or bed at the Dumas Ranch.

David died in 1920. Margaret remained on the ranch with her stepson and his wife Lenore and lived to enjoy two grandchildren. She died on January 24, 1925 at the age of ninety-one and was buried beside Captain Jackson in Middle Verde Cemetery. Lenore wrote that with Margaret’s death passed a most well-loved and remarkable woman of the west.

Donor: Martha D. Bunger, granddaughter
August 2002