The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-12-30
THE CONFEDERATE HOME
For INDECENT EX-C0nfederates
Located by the Committee i'm
Lafayette Comfy.

The location of home for the care
of INDECENT ex-Confederates in thi:
state, project which has now been
on foot for year or more, under the
care of the ex Confederate association
of Missouri, is question that has con
siderably interested large number
of the people of Pettis county for some
months, owing to :he facts that Soda.
liza has flourishing local ex-Confed-
crate association and that Pettis county
made two bids TO secure the location
of the home within her borders -one
at the town of Dresden, the other at
McAllister springs The Pettis county
ex Confederate association made a
strong effort for is location at
one of these points and sent represen-
tatives to the final meeting Of the
locating committee to urge their
claims. They were. however, unsuc-
cessfui.
the committee having the power
of locating the Institution visited all
the proposed sites, met in st. Louis
Saturday and made their decision. 1t
selected Grove Young Farm, one mile
and half from Higginsville, Lafay-
cite county, as the site for the pro-
posed Confederate home.
Pettis, Randolph and Monroe
counties sent delegates, who worked
hard and earnestly to secure the COW
ered prize, each delegate promising
almost anything if the home would be
located in his county.
The officers of the home, when they
take possession ofGrove Young Farm,
will have comparatively little TO do in
preparing it for the reception of ex-
Confederates.
The Home is to he conducted on a
pan entirely different from any insti-
tuition of It's kind. The ex-Confeder-
ates are not asked to become charges
or obj cts of charity. They will each
be offered small farm AMI cottage.
or can live in one of the large dwell
ings, with their families, and if they
wish to till the sci or engage in some
work which their disabilities will
admit of, they may enjoy the proceeds
and thereby become self supporting
The Home may not need support
after being once firmly established
and in operation. Should the track
be found too small, there is plenty
of ground in the vicinity which
can be bought at reason
able price per acre. CIRQUE Young
Farm is one of the best known in the
state and has made a fortune to its
owner, who singularly enough is an
ex-UL ion soldier. He sent bullets in
the direction Of the Confedera' es
during the war, and may have nit
some OF them, but the war is over
now, and he generously gives up half
his property to the Old enemy for a
home at a price below what he could
have obtained for it from another
purchaser a short time ago. Mr..
Young will continue occupying his !
present home with his wife, surround
ed by community of warm friends
whom he called rebels a few years
ago.
The beautiful lesson to the world |
by this strange combination of cir
cumstances is not / st to these |
'rebels," and they appreciate it as
they do the action of the union col
onel in Sedalia, who, on learning last
month that $50 was the sum a con-
federate friend of his had subscribed |
to the Home fund, said, "Well, if
that is the case, put me down for
$500" And he paid it. Such in
stances are not uncommon in this
state, as is shown by the subscription
lists circulated by the members of the
committee. So far $4,000 in cash
has been raised, $4,000 of which was
paid over to the treasurer at the meet.
ing Saturday. Over $4,000 has been
and the committee is hope
full of raising between 100000 and
$3.50, 600, which will be invested and
the proceeds used to keep up the
Home. 1t will be the only home for
ex-Confederates in the State Of Mis-
souri,