Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1863, JAN. 337 THE VINEYARDS. Kansas City. and engaged iii the real estate and loan busi- ness with success. I had much correspondence with him, and can testify to his strict integrity. lIe d. Nov. :35, 1888. IV. L. BRUCE \II.SON. JV. C-HARLES P. VILSON, md Fannie Campbell, dr. of Rev. V. C. Campbell, who had charge of this circuit in 1878-80. Mr. \ilson is traveling for several mercantile houses. Children: 1. Fred Wilson. 2. Logan. THE VINEYARDS. Jan. 7-Jesse Vineyard having died. Mary S. Vineyard, his widow. administered. Bond. $2U.()()0. Three of the Vineyards came to Platte. and settled on Pleasant Ridge. Their intelli- gence, wealth. and enterprise gave them a high position in civil and religious life. I. JESSE VINEYARD. md .Ia.ry S. Owens. dr. of Nathaniel Owens. and a half-sister of the celebrated Sam Owens, of Independence. Her sister Nancy married John W. Vine- yard. and her sister Ella M. Owens married A. G. YWilliams. See. Mrs. Jesse Vineyard spent l1er later years in Wes- ton. where she died July 4. 1877. Children: 1. John N. Tine;/(zvrd. md Dec. 13. 1866. Emma Pence. dr. of Lewis. Sept. 30, 1872. he killed himself, taking poison. 2. Benj. R. IIII(I/(l7(I, md Emma Hogan. He is a success- ful attorney at Kansas City. 3. J[(1rg/ Cazerinc (Ktttc) Tine;/m(I. md Sept. :38. 11.77. H. Clay Cunningham. b. in Kentucky Jan. 20. 1848. a son of Judge \illiam E. Cunningham a11d Sarah Owens. They live on the old Vineyard estate. be- tween Platte City and Weston. and are engaged in rearing blooded stock. They have no children. but have adopted Miss Bettie Thorp. a lovely girl. II. JOHN W. VINEYARD. md Nancy Owens. sister of the Wife of his brother Jesse. They had children. but all are gone. III. BRICE \. VINEYARD. was a. man of nished education. and built up Pleasant Ridge College. which afterwards continued under the presidency of Aller. Himrod. Bruner. and others. and was nally burned down. Jun. I0Col. James A. Price. now at Yeston. requires Clark & Bourne. editors of the flonscrnltor. to give bond iii the sum of $3.000. for their loyalty. The paper changes its tone. and compli- ments Col. Price in equivocal terms. Jun. 31Col. Jas. A. Price passed from \eston to Parkville. arresting 25 disloyal men. requiring bonds of them. and seized guns and ammunition secreted in the houses of George Roberts and others. FEBRUARY. Feb. IThe,.Iissouri River is frozen over. and many slaves 22-