Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1870, JAN. 487 SOCIETIES. IV. S..IUEL .]()NlIh. insane. V. JAMES B.. lived in Vi1gi11ia. VI. lIAH.L.. died single. in Platte. VII. .IARGARET JONES. md Jesse Miller (ii). (See) VIII. RODHAM JONES, died. leaving: 1. Ilmziel 1. Jones. dead. 2. .l[mr/ .1. 3. John W. Jones. 4. Inob(rt. DORCAS AND MITE S()(~lElll]S l. PL.-il"llI (,lY. These sot-ieties hold weekly 1neetin;v;s tlirougxhout the winter. and are attended by old and young. No refreslunents are allowed. except apples and parelied eorn. Each guest was ex- pected to tontribute 5 cents to some charitable purpose. The Christian Church patronized the Mite Society, and the Dorcas Club was under the auspices of the Methodists. Jun. 26Tlo1e Weston Board of Education determined to build a spacious public school-house; but nothing vanie of it. Jas. \. (oburns abstract of titles is advertised. FEBRUARY. Feb. IDr. A. S. Tehbs sells his stm-l{ of drugs to Jenkins & Johnson. Z. A. Britton sues Platte (itv for. 25.000 for the loss of a leg. ( See.) Trargv has beeome a lively town. In Weston, the Baptist. the Episcopalian. the Presbvterian. and the Lutheran pulpits are vacant. JOHN P. SRITE. John P. Srite having died. his widow. America. administers. He was a worthy farmer living; on lodds Creek. He married America R111e. (laughter of William S. Rule. Children: I. ELIZABETH SRITE, md Jas. Rogers. II. ALBERT. md Minnie Eppard. III. E;IM. SRITE. md Geo. Dunlap. IV. LAVINIA. died; md James Earl. V. CORA SRITE, md Jas. Colley. VI. LETTIE. VII. ANNA. 1nd Nov. 8. 1885}. Thornton Coons. Feb. 8The Mites of Platte City met at E. C. Coekx-illS. three miles west of Platte City. and the e.o~ndut-tor (Layton) of the C. & R. IV. Railway eonstruetion twain took out and returned a large crowd of guests. JGEO. XV. YOCOM (i). (i(:OIg( \. Yoeoni (ii died in Marshall lownship. He married Catherine Montgomery. Children: