I discovered our Treeby family patriarch, William Treeby, and his civil war service with the help of findagrave.com a few weeks after my mother's last day's (92 years) in the Oakes, North Dakota senior living center. Oakes was where she grew up and went to high school before marrying our father, Harold Treeby, and moving almost straight down the Sargent-Dickey county line into South Dakota by a mile. Hecla, South Dakota was the nearest town. I was unaware of findagrave.com until beginning a random search for unknown details about our father's grandpa, William Treeby, and his civil war story which was largely unknown to us at the time. All our father ever could say was that William was a civil war soldier from Iowa. But he said it to us kids often. The website, among others, popped up and I clicked on it. To my surprise, a photo of his Iowa gravesite appeared with the regiment of his service engraved upon the headstone. I then went to that regiment's roster and there he was.

I discovered our Treeby family patriarch, William Treeby, and his civil war service with the help of findagrave.com a few weeks after my mother's last day's (92 years) in the Oakes, North Dakota senior living center. Oakes was where she grew up and went to high school before marrying our father, Harold Treeby, and moving almost straight down the Sargent-Dickey county line into South Dakota by a mile. Hecla, South Dakota was the nearest town. I was unaware of findagrave.com until beginning a random search for unknown details about our father's grandpa, William Treeby, and his civil war story which was largely unknown to us at the time. All our father ever could say was that William was a civil war soldier from Iowa. But he said it to us kids often. The website, among others, popped up and I clicked on it. To my surprise, a photo of his Iowa gravesite appeared with the regiment of his service engraved upon the headstone. I then went to that regiment's roster and there he was.