Callaway County MO Archives News.....Rewarded for Life - Absalom Hughes July 22, 1889
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Weekly Ledger, Mexico, MO July 22, 1889
Weekly Ledger, Mexico, Missouri
Rewarded for Life.
Story of the Only Man in Missouri Not Required to Pay License.
Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 18 - 
  Absalom Hughes is the only living man who has the right to keep a dramshop in
Missouri without state, county and municipal license. He was born in Callaway
county, Missouri, nearly seventy years ago. He went to California some time
prior to the Mexican war and followed hunting and trapping for a living. When
the war was declared against Mexico he joined an independent expedition for the
purpose of capturing a small Mexican fort. The expedition proved successful, but
Hughes received a terrible wound and for a long time it was believed he would
loose both legs. In the battle he displayed great personal courage and received
credit for the success of the daring expedition.
  Shortly after the war Hughes managed to get back to Callaway county. There was
trouble about securing him a pension from the fact that he was not a regular
soldier, and as the Missouri legislature felt disposed to help him it was
finally agreed that it would be the proper thing to grant him the right to keep
a saloon at Cedar Creek, Callaway county, during his lifetime, free of state,
county and municipal license. This was satisfactory to him and he has ever since
run a little saloon at Cedar City. He has never made any money out of the
franchise, so to speak, and is quite poor. He is now very feeble and can barely
walk across the floor with the aid of a pair of crutches.

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