De Soto Weekly facts De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri THURSDAY, 20 JULY 1899 RECENT DEATHS - Wm. T. FOLLOWILL, a civil war veteran, at his home in Louisiana, of heart trouble, aged 60. He was second lieutenant of Co. F, Seventh Missouri volunteers, in the civil war, and was one of the heroes who ran the blockade at Vicksburg on the night of April 22, 1863, and was pilot of the flatboat Tigress when she was shot to pieces and sunk. Theodore TAYLOR, well-known as a civil engineer, and who served under PRICE in the confederate army, in St. Louis. Sent in by Charlotte M. Maness Desoto Joe/The Record Man