EVA HARVEY MOON BY: Rose Moon Schmidt Eva May Harvey was the daughter of Benjamin Harvey and Mary Ham Harvey.  She was born in Iowa and came to Kent with her family, when a young child.  Her mother passed away soon after their arrival at Kent, Nebraska.  Her step mother, Sarah Ham Harvey, her mothers sister raised her, and Eva was about twelve years old when her aunt-stepmother died.  She was married to Alanson Moon, widower of her sister Rose, on June 20,1886 on her seventeenth birthday.  Carl, son of Rose was about four years old at the time.  She was the mother of five sons, three of whom died in infancy.  Arthur W. and Emmett O. lived to manhood. Mrs. Moon remembered the early days well and told many interesting stories of the pioneer life and especially the Indian scares.  She told of the children being alone in the house when they saw Indians approaching.  Minnie was a baby and they covered her over with a feather-bed so her crying could not be heard, never thinking the baby could smother.  The older children hid in the bushes until the Redskins left, and found Minnie in good shape when they lifted the feather-bed. One night the Indians came down out of the hills and butchered "Dutch Henry" the only milch cow.  The children were thoroughly frightened when they heard this.  Another time, the children had no time to get away, so hid in the house, listening to the Indians while they rode around the house shreiking with glee. They had found a sack of flour and kept riding over it until it broke and the white dust covered them, their ponies and everything close by. They left as fast as they came, laughing like children at their flour covered faces and never even tried to enter the house. Mrs. Moon was a member of the Free Methodist Church and her religious zeal was an absorbing passion throughout her life.  After the death of Mr. Moon she married James Bowley.  Eva Mae Harvey Moon Bowley was born on June 20, 1869 anddied at Hastings, Nebraska October 15, 1938 and was buried in Kent Cemetery, Loup County, Nebraska. Transcribed by: Melody Beery Source: Loup County Cenntennial Book 1883-1983 Return to Biographies Main Page Return to Loup County Main Page