Extract from a History of Dent County by William P Elmer

"I W MOSEDALE was commissioner in 1884-85. He was an Englishman and lived in a small house in East Salem, generally known now as the Judge Milsap house. It was a neat place then. Mrs Mosedale was stung in the eye by a hornet and put it out - only accident of the kind I ever heard of. The city council named the street on which he lived "Mosedale Avenue" and it is so certified by Surveyor L C McSpadden in the plat (sic) of Citizens Additions. It was changed when the street markers were erected and is now called E 4th St, which is a misnomer and confuses land titles and abstracts, on this and other streets wherever changes were made. I still call it Mosedale Avenue."