De Soto Weekly facts De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri THURSDAY, 29 JUNE 1899 Deaths: Capt. Richard Depont EMERSON, a relative of Ralph Waldo EMERSON, at Kahokia, aged 75. He was a Union soldier. O.N. GIBSON, a pioneer farmer of Jackson county. He was in all the skirmishes with PRICE's army in the vicinity of Kansas City, serving the federal side. Sent in by Charlotte M. Maness Desoto Joe/The Record Man