Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1849, JAN. 109 THE ADKINS. His children: 1. E(I(tlll Iv. -l(l/.iu.s-, I. May 4. 1852; 1nd Dec. 17, 18725, Hill~ riet 1.. Searcy; went to Utah. 2. Eugene If. .lII.in.s-.1. (M. 12. 1854; d. July 21. 1830; 1nd Sept. 2, 1879, Carrie King. 3. Fran]: R. .1(ll:in.s-. b. Oct. 21. 1851;; 1nd in Utah. 4. Helen U. Acllcitzs, 1). Aug. 4. 1860: n1d Jan. T. 188(). Jas. Vre11, 1). Sept. 9. 1844. He is an enterprising and prosperous fariner. living three miles northwest of Platte City. Children: [1] liula W1-en. 1. Dec. 25, 1:484): [1] Jas. A.. b. May 5. LQ82: [F] Srsan E. Vren. b. Jan. 7, 1888. 5. Joel J1. .1(IIcins, h. Nov.10. 1862. 6. Birdie. b. April 23. 1865; 1nd Jan. 6. 1886, Thos. J. Thatcher. of Sinithville. 7. Jrlmcs C. .l(II.iu.-. ll. Feb. 1:}. 1.969. III. Gl{A1VII.LE Al)KLS. 1nd Dec. 115. 1556, Medelina (Della) Patterson. She was the only child of the distinguished Prof. Arch. Patterson and his wife. a. Miss Kemper. of Walnut Hills. Cincinnati. She was a lady of superior education and S. She died childless. May 31. 1875. in Leavenworth. and was buried at Platte City. Mr. Adkins is still single. and lives a.t St. Joseph. He repre- sented Buchanan County in the Legislature and was coal oil inspector. IV. AMANDA M. ADKINS, b. in Lewis Co., M0,, Sept. 15, 1837; d. at Winchester, Kan., Oct. 15. 1881: buried at Platte City; 111d April 21. 1854, W. C. Remington. 1). March 8, 1819; d. at Omaha. Neb., Dec. 20. 1864; buried at Platte City. He came to Platte City in 1843; was appointed assessor. and subse quently elected circuit clerk. He refused to take the oath required by the ousting ordinance, and opened a hotel in Omaha. His brick residence in Platte City was burned in July 1864 by Federal soldiers. He first m'd July 2. 1848. Sarah J. Kuykendall. dr. of Judge James Kuykendall, who d. Aug. 30, 1853, leaving 1. Jennie Remington, who m'd Sept. 28, 1871, W. L. Blakely. They live in Denver. By second wife: 2. Craight Remington, b. 1855; d. in Kansas, Feb. 13, 1882. 3. James W. Remington, m'd Laura Johnson; and d. in Leavenworth, leaving 7 children. 4. May (a boy), lives in Kansas City. V. JANE ADKINS, m'd Howard Coonley. VI. JOHN ADKINS, d. Sept. 5, 1868 VII. WALLER ADKINS, d. April 26, 1868