Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1856. DEC. 223 W. S. MURPHY. Dec. 6 - John Sullivan having died, Emily Sullivan administers. Bond, $2,000. The Missouri River has been frozen over for a month. Ex- tremely cold weather. CAPT. W. S. MURPHY Dec. 18 - Capt. W. S. Murphy died at Weston. He raised the first compnay in the county for the Mexican War; becaune an enter- prising trader on the plains and a merchant at Weston. Geo. W. Belt administered. Bond, $10,000. He was born July 14, 1814. He married first, September 10, 1839, Nancy Jones. He married. second. April 20, 1848, Aletia Burch. He was a brother of Joseph Murphy, commissioner of our court-house erected after the war. He was handsome, intelligent, and full of energy and courage. Children: 1. John G. Murphy; 2. Merrill 0. Murphy. Free State men are encouraged by the situation in Kansas. and are speculating largely in townsites. They buy the stock of the Delaware Town Company. at an enormous sum. and start a systenm of improvements which were never finished. Our fellow- citizen. Philip Lutes. sold his stock for some $10,000. and might have been independent for life, but became so excited that he in vested the whole in the same stock at double price. The stock became a failure. THOMAS J. WILKERSON. Dec. 23 - Thomas J. Wilkerson having died near Ridgely. William H. Lott administers. Bond. $20,000. His will is dated November 5. 1856. and probated December 1, 1856. His children by his first wife: 1, Ben. F. Wilkerson; 2. William Y. Wilkerson; .-3. Thomas J. Wilkerson; 4, John Wilkerson who married January 7, 1858, Nancy D. Throckmorton. By his second wife, Jemima: 5. Henry Wi1kerson: 6. George Wilkerson; 7. Mary Wilkerson; 8. Catherine Wilkerson. Mrs. Jemima Wilkerson married, 2d, Harrison Sale. JAMES H. HANCOCK. James H. Hancock having died, his will, dated December 8. 1856, is probated January 5. 1857. He names children 1. Mary Jane Hancock: 2. Lewis C. Hancock;