Person:Joseph Musgrave (1)

(By B. D. Painter) Joseph was 33 years of age when he came to Kansas with his family. He obtained his citizenship on June 27, 1874. The Homestead Proof indicates that Joseph Musgrave was a widower with four children and that he built a stone house 30 feet long and 23 feet wide with three doors and 21 windows. General Land Office Final Homestead Certificate indicates he obtained land in the Clearfork area near Frankfort of 240 acres between 1859 and 1874.

  His discharge papers from the service of the United States shows that he volunteered on Aug. 31, 1862 and served as a private in Captain Wm. C. Blackburn's Co. G. 13th Regiment of Kansas Infantry Volunteers.  He served for three years and was discharged on June 26, 1865 at Little Rock, Arkansas.

MARSHALL COUNTY CLIPPINGS, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, KS

JOSEPH MUSGRAVE was born at Leeds, England in 1820 and emigrated to America in 1841.  He first went to the State of New York, but remained there only one year. Emigrating from New York he went in '42 to Wisconsin and bought a farm where he remained until '56 when he came to Kansas and settled on Irish Creek.  After living there two years he sold his claim and went to the southern part of the state, but he returned to the country after a year's absence and settled on Clear Fork where he has a farm of 240 acres, 80 under cultivation, and large story and a half stone house.

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   Obituary - THE FRANKFORT BEE - APRIL 29, 1891
   DIED
   Mr. Musgrave died Saturday, April 25, aged 71 years, 2 months and 7 days. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1820. The funeral services were held at the residence Sunday afternoon. He was one of the early settlers, having resided on his homestead south of this city for many years. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his death.