The 1880 Slave Schedule shows that Granville Wilson, of Prairie Township, Randolph Co., Missouri owned 5 Female slaves, ages 22, 17, 11, 5, 4. and , one 17 year old male.

Later, Granville remarked that it was his black boy watering his animals who spotted the Yankee camp which was the subject of his arrest.

On August 8, 1863, Col. J. O. Broadhead,* General Provost Marshall at Huntsville, Mo., at the request of the sister of Granville, noted, I have known him a long time, served with the fourteen ______ in the Mexican War and who served with the E. M. M. in this county for some time

Granville’s sister, Mary H. Collins, also wrote pleading for his release.

Unfilled Papers and Slips Belonging in Confederate Compiled Service Records

* James Overton Broadhead (May 29, 1819 – August 7, 1898) was an American lawyer and political figure. He was a member of the House of Representatives and of the Missouri senate, he was also the first president of the American Bar Association
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