SALEM POST OBITUARIES "DEATH TAKES LIFE OF LAST CONFEDERATE VETERAN" Feb 23,1939. Salem,Dent County, Missouri. Enoch Musgraves, 95, died in Salem Wednesday. Funeral Sunday. Enoch Musgraves, last surviving Dent countian who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, died Wednesday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lee Talbert of Salem. he was 95 years of age. His death leaves only one civil war veteran left in Dent county, "Uncle Sam" Harrison, a Union veteran living in the north west part of the county. "Uncle Enoch", as he was know to his hundreds of Dent County friends, was a native of Indiana, being born April 12,1844 at Evansville, and was the son of John and Martha Musgraves. As a youth he came to Missouri living near Springfield and in other western towns before coming to Dent County about 1861. He was married to Elizabeth Bressie, the ceremony taking place at the old Bressie homestead on Dry Fork.(A) "Uncle Enoch" joined the confederate army at the inception of the Civil War and served throughout the the war. His major battle was at Wilson Creek, near Springfield, where one of the decisive battles of the war was waged. He also served in other large battles and was under General Sterling Price most of time he was in the army. During the latter years he had been unable to get around much and had stayed with children at Hawkins Bank and in Salem. Funeral services are to be held at 2:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the chapel of the new Spencer's Funeral Home and burial will be at the Tune Graveyard. The Rev. S. B. Renshaw, minister of the Christian Church, will be in charge of the services, and it is likely that the members of Walker-Roney Post, American Legion, will conduct military services also. END (A) Dent County Historical Society. "...'Bressie Plot' Spring Creek, Sanford Inman Farm, Dent Co....Bressie Family settled central Mo. soon after LA purchase-1803; Eaphriam Bressie owned a large acreage in Dent County and was the largest slave owners in the area.(Took one for his wife and had a daughter named Martha Rosett Castone) He also operated a store and Inn at this site on the White River Trail, 2 miles NW of Salem. The second post office in Dent Co. Montauk (Indian Origin)later owned by the Watkins family (Presently by the Inman family)" Note: The Bressie farm was also a camp site of the Cherokee on the trail of tears which ran right through the property.(Northern Route). Submitted by Brooks Martin, descendent. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail