Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1851, MARCH. l3T THE PERRINS. March J\eston is granted a new charter by the Legislatllre. Postage is reduced to :3 cents for half an ounce. for all distances. March IUThe Lower Bee Creek bridge is eomplete. and S. I. Yoeuln is paid .ll1.,00tl for building it. B. D. Oden reports the Skinner bridge complete. .CH1Ll..lZS lEl{l{.l N. illarch 1;2.(-hilles Perrin lmys of W. M. Paxton 158 acres adjacent to Camden Point, at; $16 per acre. After living for sev- eral years in Platte. Mr. .,-hilles Perrin returned to 1ioyleCo., Ky. He was a, son of Josephus 1erri11, and was born in North Carolina in 1778; came to Kentucky; md Jane Smith. Children: I. AYTCHMONDE LANE PER-R1.. b. in Lincoln Co., K53. April 8. 1811; removed in 1835 to Palmyra. M0,. where he continued the mercantile business. which he had pursued in Kentucl). There, in 1838, he md Julia Morton. b. in 1822. 3, dr. of Samuel Morton. She d. in 1849, after coining; with her husband, in 1842. to Platte, and settling near Cam- den Point. .\tcl11nonde married second, Sarah Jane S11). 11t Shanks. Here he turned his attention to farming, but in 1867-8 he was casliier of the Platte Savinrvs Institution at \eston. He served a. term as coroner, and has been a leader in the Clnistian. the benevolent. and the educational enterprises of his localitjv. For years past he has been lame from a fall from a horse. and has to use eriitelies. His children by his Iirst Wife: 1. ;us(1u I". IrrriH. b. ;ll,Q. 27. 18I$l; md .Iarch 14. 1801. Thomas l). tampbell. of St. Josepli. Children: [N] Aehie . Campbell. 23. Aehill(.x t.l]Ill Icr1in. b. March 7. 18411: md 1):-C. 25. 1813). Sallie J. Shanks. Lin-s in Nevada. .Io. Ii. .l[orton Perrin. b. May 5. 1845; d. April 1. 1886: md .[a) 5, 1875. Anna flhiles. (h: ["] .)t(.]1ll1m(l(l [0] Mary. 4. ./uli(1J. P(rrin.le.-lul29.1847:mdH.C.Chiles. 7 ch. By his second wife -\t(-hmonde l-rrin had: .l[ur:/ J[rug/uref Porrin. h. Man-l1 t), 1854: md Ma) 1). 1874. Stephen (7. Voodson, b. Nov. 11. 1845. in Knox Co.. I).. son of Ben J. Voodson. b. Nov. 2. 1808. and IMar;aret Fulkerson. b. April 210. 1815. in Lee Co.. a.. (tin ot John Fulkerson. He came with his parents to Platte. and settled on a farm near Camden Point: 1-eeeived a good academic education at Daug11ters College; entered on the stud) of law with .Ie111111a1i & Paxton. at Platte City: was admitted to the ba 1 in 1868; elected commissioner of common sclionls of