Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1849, JUNE 113 THE BROWNS Wilcat Branch of Todd's Creek I. OBED BROWN (ii), married Eliza Grover II. LOIS BROWN, second wife of Barnet Sisk III. LUMMUS BROWN, married Drusilla Prunty, dr. of Leonard Prunty IV. CLARISSA BROWN, married Jed. Prunty June 6 - Coleby Powell's estate administered on by R. F. Mason. Bond, $7,000. PLATTE CITY BRIDGE For some years after this bridge was built, the trestle at its center was left standing, but it was washed out by drift that lodged against it. The bridge then careened over, and threatened to fall up stream. But a stout brace was fastened in the rock bottom of the river, and security it. But this was liable to be torn out by a drift, and the court appoints Elisha Green commissioner, and appropriates $1,500 to erect a pier in the middle of the stream. David Cordray's estate administered on by John Doniphan. June 10 - B. F. Warren's estate administered by John Meek. WILLIAM O. TATE William O. Tate's estate was administered on by Lydia Tate. Bond, $2,200. He was an officer in J. Morin's company, and was severely wounded in New Mexico. He came home, and dided March 10, 1849. He married in 1825, Lydia Sloan, b. May 15, 1804, d. Jan. 18, 1894. She was a daughter of David Sloan. Children: I. ROBERT TATE, lives single II. JAMES TATE, married Miranda B. Lewis, daughter of Judge D. P. Lewis. 1. William O. Tate (ii) 2. Daniel Boone Tate, married Ida B. Armstrong 3. John W. Tate, married Etta Cole 4. Tallman Tate 5. Benjamin F. Tate, married Cyrena Sloan 6. David Tate 7. Jennie Tate, married Marcus A. Cox 8. Belle Tate III. NANCY J. TATE, married John Boyd, who left her IV. ALEX TATE, killed in a well V. MINERVA ANN TATE, married William Allision, lives in Kansas City, 5 children VI. JOHN A. TATE June 16 - Senator Benton spoke in Liberty against the resolutions passed by the Legislature.