John Wesley Rose

In the early morning hours of November 17, 1930, in Kirksville, Missouri, a dedicated lawman's life was tragically cut short. Night Marshal John Wesley Rose, a 60-year-old male who had served in law enforcement for 18 years, was on duty when he and his partner, Night Marshal George Scrivens, began to investigate a man in connection with a local gas station robbery. The officers had been alerted to a suspicious man seen asleep in a car and soon located the vehicle at a filling station on North El ...

Night Marshal John Wesley Rose

Kirksville officer who paid the ultimate sacrifice in 1930 gets honored