She was affiliated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) movement and was embraced by the Grand Army of the Republic, her second husband having been a member of the organization.

[3] In 1861, at the beginning of the civil war, she married Andrew B. Allison, who joined the Union Army, serving as a member of Company A, 61st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment.

[1] She continued her education, and in 1865, was graduated from the Steubenville Female Seminary, run by the Presbyterian Church in Ohio.

The Grand Army of the Republic men accepted her as a comrade, and in many of their meetings, she was called upon to make an address.

Shortly after being widowed again in 1912, she relocated to the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Trafford, Pennsylvania,[2] where she died February 6, 1925.

Death was directly due to pneumonia, although her health had not been the best for the last two years when she was weakened by recurrent paralytic shocks.