Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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185-1, NOV. 189 NEWSPAPERS. NOVEMBER. JOHN G. SHULTZ. Nor. 6John G. Shultz having died. Dr. G. V. Bayless admin- isters. Bond, $550.000. He accidentally shot himself while rid- ing. He was a.so11 of Christian Shultz. a merchant of Maysville. K). He came west about 1949. and }n1relia.sed the Bean farin. on Beans Lake, and an interest in tl1e site of Iatan. His Widow, .[a.r) -J. Shultz. (lied May 17. 1884. .lhe had no children. Senator Atchison speaks in the cou1t-house, at Platte Pity. He defends slaeri. and urges voters to remove to Kansas. that they Inay vote for a Iro-sl:ner delegate to (~o11gress on the 20th inst. He pleads fo1500 emigrants from Platte. Nov. 10"sena.tor Atchison speaks at Libei-tv. and urges the citizens of (lay to go to Kansas to make it a slave State. Nov. 22 John Edwards liaving died. Jerry Edwards admin- isters. Bond,$3,000. Nor. .29 Election in Kansas. of a delegate to Coiigress. re- sulted. PI()~Sifl.V9I"V Vote for J. V. \hiteld, 2,258; Free State vote, 575. COUNTY N EWSPAPERS. N01. 30The In(lu.s-trial Immin(ug/ is published at Parkville, by Park & Cundiff. and favors free soil. The Argus, published in Weston, is for making Kansas a slave State. It is Den1ocra,tic. The Reporter, published at \eston. is a Wl1i,; paper. It opposes mobs and intimidation. and advocates a. fair Vote. DECEMBER. THOMAS CROSSWHITE. Dec. 1Tl1os. (rosswhite having died i11 Pettis Township. E. S. Clardy administers. Bond, $3.000. His widow was Susan E. Crosswhite. Children: 1. Thos.; 2. Jacob H.: 9.. Jas. G.; 4, Abraham. Dec. ;Senator Atchison resigns the presidency of the U. R. Senate, and Jesse D. Brig-lit succeeds him. Dec. 5Topeka is laid off. EDWARD SMITH. Dec. 19 Edward Smith l1a.ing died. his widow, Lucinda Smith. administers. Bond. -$..t.l0(l. He was horn in Nmth (arolinaz came west, and settled in 1.:.7 in Green lownsl1ip. He was well educated, a11d taught. school. In 181:) he married Lucinda McClain, daughter of Thos. In 1854 he was an-eidentally drowned in the Missouri River. After ]ll:l.Il)lllg. 2d. (leo. Mellon, .Irs. Smith died May 2. 1889. (,11: