Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton




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1871, OCT. 515 THE McCLAINS II THOMAS McCLAIN Bee Creek I. JOHN McCLAIN (ii) Lanter II. LEVI D. McCLAIN Elizabeth Yohe 1. William T. McClain Julia Jones John Jones Harry Lee McClain III. LUCINDA McCLAIN Edward Smith IV. RACHEL McCLAIN V. ELIZABETH McCLAIN David Laswell 1. Ruth Laswell Isaac Laswell Elizabeth Laswell David Laswell Racket Laswell Bettie Laswell VI. MALINDA McCLAIN William Baxter Oct. 21 - The County Medical Society met at Weston. PLATTE COUNTY "DEMOCRAT" L. Shepard Oct. 31 - John Foley killed in Platte City by Dan Kenney. Nothing done. Arch. Hill, postmaster at Ridgely, is detected in opening letters and robbing the mail, and sent by the United States District Court to the penitentiary for ten years. The post-office at Ridgely and Union Mills discontinued. NOVEMBER Nov. 1 - A monumnet unveiled at Camden Point, erected to the memory of the Confederates who fell there September 13, 1864. R. P. C. Wilson made the address. J. F. Flannery's store in Platte City partly burned. Thos. E. Park the Democrat R. P. C. Wilson Nov. 10 - Democratic meeting at the court-house; Norton and R. P. C. Wilson spoke. abolishment of the Weston Court of Common Pleas