De Soto Weekly facts De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri THURSDAY, 5 JANUARY 1899 A Veteran Passes Away - Capt. C.C. HARE, aged 67, is dead at his home in Kansas City of grip. He was born in Louisville, Ky., and served through the civil war with distinction. THURSDAY, 19 JANUARY 1899 OBITUARY MISSOURI STATE NEWS - Thomas COLEMAN, of Smithton, Pettis county, aged 69 years, a veteran of the war of the rebellion. MISSOURI STATE NEWS - E.K. SAYERS, one of the oldest citizens of Lewis county, at his home near Monticello. He was born in New Jersey in 1810. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Missouri in 1861 and 1863, and voted against secession. He was the oldest living graduate of Amherst college, Mass., having graduated from there in 1828. MISSOURI STATE NEWS -Hon. Charles L. EWING, aged 71, at Lexington, after a week's illness of pneumonia. He had just finished a four years' term as circuit clerk. He represented Lafayette county in the legislature in 1879. He served in the Mexican war, and was engaged in the battle of Buena Vista. In the war between the states he sided with the confederates. Sent in by Charlotte M. Maness Desoto Joe/The Record Man