Search Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton

1858, SEPT. 264 KANSAS AFFAIRS. KANSAS AFFAIRS. Sept. 23 - A letter of this date states: Business in Kansas is dead. The town of Delaware has come to nothing-peop1e are leaving for the Colorado mines. Lands near Leavenworth sell at from $10 to $15 per acre. Stay laws. Valuation laws. and home- stead laws so protect debtors that collections are almost impossible. LEAVENWORTH ISLAND Sept. 27 - Weeden Meshon having led his affidavit, stating that the Missouri now (1858) runs west of the island, the acting commissioner of the General Land Office decided that. with that testimony before him. he would regard the island as subject to the jurisdiction of Missouri. The case was em parte, and no inquiry was made as to the facts when the limits of the State were ex- tended west to the Missouri. OCTOBER Oct. 1 - An Argus of the 29th of October, 1858, is in my hands. Jas. W. Denver resigns as governor Kansas. The overland mail now comes from San Francisco in 25 days. PHILEMON HAWKINS. Oct. 5 - Philemon Hawkins having died, his widow, Lydia E. Hawkins administered. Bond, $40,000. Children: I. ELIZA ELLA HAWKINS, d. March 2, 1870; married William H. Elliston, son of William, of Grant County, Ky. Children: 1. James P. Elliston 2. Lena L. Elliston 3. Mary J. Elliston, married William Loller. Children: [a] Mary Loller [b] Ethel Loller [c] William Loller [d] Nellie Loller [e] Birdie Loller 4. Margaret Elliston, married Richard Hamilton, dead. She still lives in New Market. Children: [a] Laura Hamilton, married Eugene Doty; 1 child. [b] Charles Hamilton [c] Birdie Hamilton 5. Aug. Payne Elliston, married Sallie Jones. He is dead. She still lives in Weston. Children: [a] Wood Elliston [b] Verd Elliston [c] Ernest Elliston [d] Grace Elliston [e] Pearl Elliston 6. W. W. Elliston 7. Alonzo Elliston William H. Elliston married second, Polly Henson and had: 8. Thos. Elliston, b. Feb 18, 1861; married Dec. 9, 1891, Kate E. Steele. 9. John Elliston II. LUCINDA HAWKINS, married William L. Stephens Philemon married 2nd, Lydia Elston and had: III. CANBY HAWKINS, b. April 10, 1859, married Mary Polk, dr.