Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1858, APRIL 256 THE BRIGHTWELLS. Platte City elected the following town board: E. W. Clifford, president; W. M. Paxton, treasurer; A. Burge, R. P. Clark, S. Doty, J. Beery, and H. B. Wallace, members. The Atlas now reports proceedings of all courts. April 6 - James M. Bell is appointed superintendent of the poor-house, in place of James Holland. The poor-house was at what is now Atchison Junction. April 8 - Ptolemy Brightwell died near Parkville THE BRIGHTWELL FAMILY. Richard and Elizabeth Brightwell, of Spottsylvania County, Va., were the progenitors of the Brightwell family of Platte. Children: I. WALLER L. BRIGHTNVELL, will be noticed hereafter. II. WYATT BRIGHTWELL, of Virginia. III. JOHN BRIGHTVYELL, of Virginia. 1. SALLIE BRIGHTWELL, married John Johnson, of Virginia. Y. MARY BRIGHTVYELL, married a Pitcher, in Virginia, VI. PTOLEMY BRIGHTWELL. b. in Virginia. in 1800; d. in Platte April 8, 1858. He was, for years, a. prosperous 1ner~ chant in Staunton, Va., and was an. urbane gentleman. He came to Platte about 1856. He md 1st. a. Johnson, and, after her death, married second, Fannie Todd. a cousin of Prof. H. B. Todd. His Children: 1. Fernando Brightwell, of Lexington, Mo. 2. R. T. Brightwell, a business man, and justice of the peace, of Parkville, b. in Virginia Jan. 13, 1831; came with his father in 1856; 1nd Feb. 4. 1862. in Virginia, Sallie Hopkins, b. in 1839. (h: ["l Alberta Bright- well, 1nd Oct. 11, 1884, Willia1n Nash. son of John H. ("h: [1] Mabel Nash; [2] Laventa; [3] Dora; [.9] Ma); [5] Stella. [71] Francis De Vitt Bright- well; [0 ].-Xnnie. 1nd June 6. 1894, Jas. XV. Davis, son of John; [(7] Mary Brightwell. 3. Mary Brightwell 4. Sallie Brightwell, married March 29, 1859. John McWilliams. 5. Harriet Brightwell Ptolemy Brightwell left other children in Virginia. April 10 - Almond, Paxton & Owen convey 11 1/4 acres of land, a half-mile south of Platte City, for the Female Academy. April 17 - The Platte Country Railroad from Kansas City to St. Joseph: A meeting at New Market, R. G. Barber chairman, and N. P. Ogden secretary, pledged $10,000 to said railroad on condition it passed through Platte City and New Market. They also asked the county court to take $200,000 of stock, on like conditions.