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Historical Henry Co., Missouri MESSENGER, Edwin Milo Born Dec 1827 Rochester, Monroe, New York Died 16 Nov 1885 Brownington, Henry, Missouri Grave: Edwin Milo Messenger is Teays Chapel Cemetery, Bear Creek Twp., Henry, Missouri Clinton, Henry County, Missouri 21 November 1885 E. M. Messenger committed suicide at Brownington last Sunday by taking morphine and laudanum. It will be remembered he was city marshal here at one time. He died from being depressed over the loss of his finances mistakes of loss of home and other issues of family matters.

Reminiscences of Early Clinton-1887 - Clinton Eye, Clinton, Henry County, Missouri On North Washington Street, the east side, first building from the corner of the square, stands one of the oldest houses in town. I first saw it when it was on the square, near the present site of Wilder's iron store. I remember going there to get my shoes repaired. In one room liquor was sold - the first saloon; in another, Coppage, the first tailor, plied his trade; and in still another, my shoes were attended to, while all about in the other places were stored old harness, barrels, potatoes, corn and trash. On the northeast corner of the square, where now Salmon's fine bank now stands, there was an old double log building put up by John Nave, and occupied by him as the first hotel ever in Clinton. I first knew it when it was used by E. M. Messenger and others for a blacksmith shop. In the south end of this same building, hotel and blacksmith shop, Messenger also opened the first meat market. The ground east of this corner then was an open prairie, where roamed at large the sheep and cattle that furnished Messenger with his fresh meat. Very early in the morning, this man, armed with a common ax, would come forth, knock down a steer, dress it and chop it up for his customers and have it on sale long before light. Messenger was a fast man. He walked fast and worked fast but he never got along fast in worldly matters. He built the frame home on the corner of Main and Green Streets, now occupied by J. W. Keil. He began it one Monday morning and the same week moved his family into it. Messenger died at Brownington a year or two since.