Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton




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1869, AUG. 478 C. A. MANN Aug. 25 - Dr. A. S. Tebbs (ii) buys A. Burges stock of drugs, and continues the business in Platte City. Aug. 26 - Weston Public Schools are reorganized, with Prof. Bradford superintendent, and John T. Dunbar, Mrs. Lou Dunbar, A. F. Martin, P. Phillips. and A. M. Avarne assistants. Aug. 27 - Porkhouse at Weston built by Perry Bros. & Co. The Missouri River is high. and boats are landing at wharf of Weston. The Missouri Valley Railroad is now running trains through from St. Joseph to Kansas City. Aug. 31-Teachers institute at Platte City. SEPTEMBER. Sept. 6 - Weather - A light frost. CHARLES A. MANN. Sept. 9 - Charles A. Mann is brutally attacked by a man named Bullock, and receives injuries of which he dies. He was a farmer, living eight miles -east of Platte City, and possessed a large heart and generous feelings. His violent death was much deplored. but the culprit escaped. He was born in Virginia September 22, 1804, and married November 11, 1829, Elizabeth Blanton. born February 29. 1812, in Virginia. She was a daughter of Lawrence Blanton and Gilley Colley. They came in 1840 to Clay County. and thence, in 1843, to Platte. settling on Second Creek, where the widow yet resides. Children: I. ELIJAH W. MANN, b. Aug. 17, 1830; married Jan. 11, 1866, Mary Ruth Johnson. Children: 1. Anna Mann, married Sept. 5, 1886, I. C. How 2. Morris Mann 3. Nina Mann II. LAURA A. MANN, b. March 10, 1832; married Feb. 3, 1853, John F. Swope. Children: 1. Jacob Swope 2. Alice J. Swope 3. William Swope 4. Albert Swope 5. Fannie Swope 6. Kate Swope III. HENRY C. MANN, b. Sept. 4, 1834; married Dec. 15, 1875, Luanna Christy, daughter of Jas. W. Christy (see); no children. IV. HUGH J. MANN, b. Jan. 24, 1837; d. Aug. 12, 1870; married Jan. 1, 1863, Mary Sue Dunlap, who d. March 2, 1872. Children: 1. Chas. A. Mann (ii) V. MARTHA H. MANN, b. Feb. 27, 1842, married Oct. 2, 1890, S. G. Young VI. MARY E. MANN, b. Dec. 26, 1843; married March 12, 1884, John W. Young VII. LUCY F. MANN, b. April 4, 1848; d. June 4, 1876. Sept. 10 - The material for the Leavenworth bridge arriving.