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Potosi

I have a lot of ancestry in Potosi, Missouri, which is the county seat for Washington County, so I have visited it several times and will probably visit it again some day.

This is the Washington County Courthouse in the middle of Potosi. This is the location where the original trial of Richard Marshall occurred and where he was originally sentenced to hang. This was built in 1908 and is not the building in 1867 when my ancestor went through a murder trial, it is the same location.

My ancestor George W. Rutledge, Sr., 3rd Great Grandpa, was in Company E, 32nd Regiment, Missouri Infantry (Union) during the Civil War and was captured at Potosi, Missouri, on September 28, 186_ (year not written) by Price's Missouri Exhibition as a prisoner of war. He was in the "home guard."

This photo is used with permission courtesy of Keith at courthousehistory.com. This Washington County Courthouse was built in 1849 and I can imagine in my mind Richard walking up the steps and into the doors to go to trial.

Copyright Cheryl Rutledge-Brennecke
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