Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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18-59, MAY. 278 ALEX. XVOODLAND. Jlay 1Ethan Allen retires, and Gist & Short take charge of the Atlrzs. as editors. IV. C. Remington and H. C. Coekrill are proprietors. Jlay 3Iatan is incorporated for school purposes. Jfay 7-Barry Cumberland Presbyterian Church buys a lot for a ho11se of worship. ALEX. I/VOODLAND. JIa(/ ].{iAlex. Yoodland having died, Louisa Voodland ad- ministered. Bo11d. $5.000. Children: I. ELIZA A. VYOODLAND, md Jas. Hisel. II. ELIZABETH. md Jae. Armbruster. III. PAULINA F. WOODLAND. md IV. H. Bramlett. IV. SARAH C. V. IWILLIAM H. WOODLAND. VI. MELCENA. VII. MAHALA C. VIII. JOHN A. YOODLAND. JIa,z/ 21JA)IES NICHOLS having died. Hary and James Boydston administered. Bond, $535,000. Mr. Nichols left a large landed estate, on the Buchanan line, and many heirs to inherit it. J[ag/ 2.9CAPT. ANDREW JOHNSON died at Louisville, Ky., from the effects of an operation for stone in the bladder. His remains were brought back and buried at his home on Bee Creek. THE JOHNSON FAMILY. Berwick Johnson was a brother of Vice-President Richard M. Johnson, the hero of the battle of the Thames. The family came at an early day to Bryants Station, so celebrated in the early his- tory of Kentucky. Berwick was the father of Capt. Andrew Johnson, and his mothers name was Phena. I have heard Capt. Johnson tell of the dangers that surrounded the early settlers of Kentucky, and of his mother molding bullets for the men when the Station was surrounded by Indians. Capt. Andrew Johnson was born at Bryants Station. in Ken tuelv. May 21, 1790. His education was limited, but his courage and patriotic zeal caused him, at the rst call, to enlist in his uncle I{i-hard M. Johnsons regiment of mounted ries, for the \ar of 1.912. IIis chivalrous nature brought him always to the frrmt. and at the post of danger. He rose to the command of a eo111}:1l1. whieh he led at the Raisin and the Thames. Ii)-een1l)e1- 1821. Captain Johnson married. in Scott County, I\.. -Ieiniina Suggett, born .ugust 22. 1805: died in Platte it in 1.."2. She was, when I knew her, large and eshy. ller In-art ()elll()W(3(1 with tenderness. and her generous nature .}ml(t in -h:n-ity. In 1837 Capt. Jnlmson was stationed at St. Louis. as an Indian agent. In 183.9 he visited Platte. and selected theqI1:llle1s(-1inn of lan(l on Pleasant Ridge afterwards owned l. Jos. . wer. In 1840 he united with the Old-school Baptist (Inn-eh. and (l()ll3ll((1 to [.nit tFlint-lock) Baptist Church the gzronml upon \lll(ll the eliurch still stands.