----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Beck" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:01 PM Subject: [MO-CW] Old Soldiers Home > Hi, > > I am new to the list so if I ask a question already answered in the past please forgive. > > Wm.E. Dicus served in Company D, 5th & 6th Regiment State Militia Cavalry. He was born in MO but lived in Texas at the time of the War and his service. > > According to family tradition he died in an old soldiers home in Illinois, however I have been unable to find him on the Illinois List . > > My question: Was there an Old Soldiers Home in Missouri ? Can anyone help? I have sent for his service records but not his Pension records. > > Nancy from Texas The Confederate Soldiers Home of Missouri. Opened in 1891, the Confederate Home provided refuge to more than 1,600 veterans and their families for nearly 60 years. These veterans hailed from points throughout the South and served in every major battle of the Civil War. Foot soldiers, artillery and cavalrymen, marines, guerilla fighters and even spies found a place of rest here in their old age. The very last of these former rebel soldiers, John T. Graves, died at the home in 1950 at the age of 108. http://www.mostateparks.com/confedmem/geninfo.htm A picture of his grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9903 St. James is the site of the first state veterans home. It was originally opened in 1896 by the Women's Relief Corps Soldiers' Home Association, and was deeded to the State of Missouri in 1897. A new, 150-bed facility was dedicated and opened on the original campus in 1996, in conjunction with the 100-year anniversary of the Home. Missouri Veterans Home 620 N. Jefferson St. James, MO 65559 Phone: (573) 265-3271 Fax: (573) Desoto Joe/The Record Man