Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1872, DEC. 535 J. W. WOOD. DECEMBER Dec. 1 - Epizootic is epidemic. Dr. E. McD. Coffey removes from Camden Point to Platte City Many farmers living in the Strip refuse to pay the tax levied for the Green Township bonds. JOHN W. WOOD Dec. 9 - John W. Wood having died, Henry Lamar administers. Bond, $3,000. His children: I. JESSE G. WOOD. II. MARGARET WOOD, married a Goheen F. G. Cockrill's house at Tracy is complete. N. P. Ogden buys the Weston Brewery at Marshall's sale, for $4,200. T. H. Coleman and Woodson & Wells are in their new business houses at the northwest corner of Block 30, Platte City. Dec. 16 - Capt. G. S. Story's house in Weston burned; fully insured. Dec. 21 - William A. Green's house burned. Gerrard Chesnut kills a deer at his farm, five miles east of Platte City. JOSEPH BARNARD having died, John W. Thomas administers. His widow's name is Sarah. Children: I. NANCY M. BARNARD II. THOMAS E. BARNARD III. WILLIAM E. BARNARD IV. VIRGINIA BARNARD V. ETTIE M. BARNARD VI. JOSEPH A. BARNARD 1873 OFFICERS