Search Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton

1878, AUG. 664 MASTIN BANK. AUGUST. Aug. 3The Mastin Bank a.t Kansas City fails. It was one of the banks that State Treasurer Gates. had made his d-eposito- ries. The failure creates intense excitement, and is us-ed against Crisp. Aug. 5J. T. Crisp speaks at the court-house to an excited throng. Aug. 6H. C. Bond resigns as station agent at Tracy, and J. S. Cope takes his place. Aug. 7Clark & Links steam saw-mill on S11niths Fork blows up, and Clark is killed. Aug. 8The Weston Savings Bank, 1. P. Cartwright, cashier. makes an assignment to J. M. Bailey. The channel of the Missouri River at Weston returns to the east side of the island, and boats land at the Wharf. Aug. 9Jeff J. Park sells his farm, four miles east of Platte City, to Marion P. Collins and W. Chestnut, and moves to Kansas. The booths on the fair grounds brought $837.50. DAVID STAPLES. Aug. 11David Staples shoots himself. He was a son of Abner Staples, of Mount Vernon County, Ohio, and his mother was Mary Oar, daughter of YWilliam. He was a soldier in the 16th Kansas in the war. He came to Platte in 1844, and settled near Parkville. He married, first, September 25, 1845, Elizabeth Fugate. She died, and he married, second, Amanda J. Ellis, daughter of John. Children of second Wife: I. HARY ANN STAPLES, 1nd Thomas Keller; 4 children; live at Medicine Lodge, Kan. II. ELIZABETH STAPLES, (lead; md Anderson Cockrael. Children: 1. Bertha Oockrael. 2. Lillie. III. SARAH STAPLES, n1d- June 2?, 1865, Wm. E. Burruss, b. Oct. 5, 18.1.0, son of Bluford Burruss. and Nancy Tally. Children: 1. Jane Bz(2ru..s-8, md Willia1n Heavelow. 2. J[(-Ithc-n(1..Burruss. 1n(l Brutus Berry. (See) I-I. ldu. 4. J(.s.s(% Bu);/118.5. 5. L(.z~z7. (5. Albert. 7. .lIur2ou. 8. I.i.::ic. 9. H(I)ll/. l. CTIARLICS II. STAPLES. b. .Iay 14. 1856; md Dec. 26. 1875. Laura Bcckley (see), from whom he was divorced. Children: 1. Ida bt(I[Il(-S, md W1n. Holmes. 2, Belle. 3. Willliam. 4. Jlurg. . I{.Il()li).. Sl.II.lCS. md in 1891. V1n. Bowman, (lead. She lives in Kansas Fit). VI. .P.I{-M L. ST.lLES. m(l 1st, Feb. 10. 1882. Cassie Emmer son. She (lied. leaving: 1. S(1(Iit?.