Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1861, AUG. 3112 CONDITION OF PLATTE. Aug. 5 - Gov. Jackson responds with a declaration of the idependence of Missouri. Aug 10 - Battle of Wilson Creek. Death of Gen. Lyon CONDITION IN PLATTE Aug. 12 - Rebel flags are flying; anarchy prevails; rebel cmaps are formed at Platte City. at Grooseneck. and at Cains; a regiment is to be raised for the South. J. H. Winston is to be colonel. Brasfield, Chesnut, Chi1es. Carr, Chrisman, Gordon, McKinnis. Miller. Synnamon. and others are enlisting compa- nies. Arms are gathered and provisions collected. The Union men close their eyes in silence; business stands still; merchants dispose of their goods; valuable property disappears; horses are stolen or pressed. and crime goes unpunished. Aug 15 - Platte City Academy is sold by the sheriff, for the liens of the contractors, and W. M. Paxton purchases at $9,000. which was chiefly lost to him. He rents it to Elder A. B. Jones for $100 per annum. but never receives a dollar of rent. LEWIS MCDANIEL. Aug. 16 - Lewis McDaniel having died. his widow, Rebecca, administers. Bond. $8,000. He was a. Wealthy farmer at Hampton. and a high-minded and generous citize11. Children: I. Rebecca McDaniel, m'd 1st May 28, 1857 William Zabrisky (see) m'd 2d, Dr. Samuel Rixey. (See.) II. Mary A. McDaniel III. Granville McDaniel, m'd June 13, 1848, Sarah A. Gregg IV. James McDaniel V. Joseph McDaniel VI. John W. McDaniel Aug 20 - Gen. Fremont arrives in St. Louis Aug 28 - W. T. Green having died, A. G. Naylor administers. His widow was Sarah T., and children: 1. Francis M. Green, b. in 1856; 2. James H. Green, b. in 1858. SHELTON J. LOWE. Shelton J. Lowe died at New Market. He was a11 elder of the Old-school Baptist Church, and man of mind and education. For several years he was an enterprising merchant of Weston. He married in 1844, in Indiana, Mary D. Potter, b. May 9, 1814. died at New Market in February, 1893. Children: I. WILLIAM A. LOWE, for many years a business man of New Market, and now a druggist of St. Joseph. He was b. Aug. 26, 1843; came to New market in 1854; m'd Dec. 26, 1860, Sarah A. Dodson. Children: 1. Caroline J. Lowe 2. William D. Lowe, m'd Sept. 28, 1886, Rachel Byrd