Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1847, NOV. 95 JOHN H. HARPER. NOVEMBER. Nov. 2~Jan1es Finchs estate administered on by Margaret Finch. Bond, $3,000. JAMES WILLIAMS. Nov. ,Ja1ues \illiams estate administered by his widow. Harriet. Their oh: I. ELIZ. CRABTREE. II. LAURA VYILLIAlIS. md 1st, a Hill. who d., le:ling 1. Laura Hill. md Henry C. Reynolds. IH. ELIZA WILLIAMS. md a Mulkey, and d.. leaving 1. Sarah H. Mulkeg/. Jesse Morin bought one undivided half of the Platte City Water Mills, of Bright. Martin, for $2,000. JOHN H. HAR.PERS ACQUITTAL. Nov. 18.T. H. Harper. son-in-law of Sa1nl Owens, of Inde- pendence, having obtained a change of venue from Jackson, was tried here for murder, and acquitted. The trial was interesting and the Whole community was excited. That night the friends of Harper had a grand drunken carousal. Old Sacramento, the cannon brought back from New Mexico by the soldiers. was brought forth and doubly charged with powder; the heavens were made to tremble and the earth to shrink with terror. In the morning there was not a whole light in the courthouse windows. and the county court had to appropriate $50 for repairs. Nov. 22Richard Meek, Jr., buys ten acres of land north of Weston, and lays off his addition. Nov. 29James G. Hodges estate is administered on by Geo. Quimby and Eliza Hodge. Mr. Hodge was the father of Mrs. Mar- cella Young, and was the rst husband of Mrs. Eliza Tolley. DECEMBER. REV. JESSE MOORE. Dec. ;Rev. Jesse Moore. of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, died. Born and reared in Kentucky, he md Mary Ann Story, of Mt. Sterling, b. Oct. 23, 1807. They came to Missouri in 1847, and the same year Mr. Moore died. The Widow md in 1854. John Smith, and they lived in Weston. She died Feb. 7, 1893, and Mr. Smith survived her only a few days. Her ch. by her rst husband: