Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1871, JAN. 504 BUSINESS MEN JANUARY Lawson, Donnell & Simpson B. W. Gilbert Ira Norris Jr. T. W. Park Hon. R. P. C. Wilson Farmers Savings Association Thos. H. Coleman's brick house, opposite the court-house in Platte City is complete. George Reed shoots and kills Thomas Brown, at Ridgely FEBRUARY Brasfield, Hamm, and Talbott Green Township Bonds Jas. S. Owens Howard Mills killed by a fall from a fruit tree. MARCH Mrs. Elizabeth May, Lee and Ed Williams, B. L. May, and Samuel Park remove to Coffey County, Kansas the Reveille Stephen Waldron, tried for murder of Ignatius Naylor (ii) in Ray County, is convicted of manslaughter, and fined $500. Jas. H. Chinn, coroner, in place of N. E. Wilkinson March 16 - The house of Col. J. E. Pitt, a mile south of Platte City is burned.