Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1873, SEPT. 555 J. WOODSON. Maysville, Ky. About tl1e same time Josiah Woodson. of Vir- ginia, came to .laysville, and Dr. James Moss married his daugh- ter, Mary Woodson. We will now trace the LINEAGE OF JOSIAH WOODSON. 1. JOHN WOODSON of Dorsetshire. England, who settled in Virginia in 1624. His son, 2. ROBERT WOODSON, n1d Elizabeth Ferris. Their son. 3. JOHN WOODSON. 1nd Judith,daughter of Stephen Tarleton. Their son, 4. JOSIAH WOODSON, 1nd Wary Royall. Their daughter, 5. MARY WOODSON, n1d Dr. James Hoss, of Maysville, Ky. DESCENDANTS OF DR. JAMES MOSS. 1. WOODSON MOSS. 2. ELIZABETH MOSS, b. in Mason C~o.. Ky., in 1805; d. at St. Louis, Feb. 8, 1873; 111d 1st, Dr. D. P. Vilco-X. She married second, Gen. W. H. Ashley. She md 3d, Senator John J. Crittenden. She was a lovely and spirited woman. In 1839, when I was a youth. I was her guest in St. Louis. She was then i11 the heyday of l1er loveliness. and. as tl1e Vidow Ashley. the queen of St. Louis society. 3. OLIVER P. MOSS (see), of Liberty. 4. COL. JAMES H. MOSS (see). a lawyer of distinction. and the organizer of the militia of Platte and Clay in 1864. He md Susan Woodson. of Clolumbia, dr. of Varren Woods0n. OTHER CHILDREN OF JOSIAH WOODSON. :2. (/.~ROLI;E WOODSON. 1nd Augustus Wilson. so11 of Lieut Nat Vils~on. a halfbrotl1er of Dr. Basil Duke. 3. PATSY WOODSON. m(l Henry Hachir, and their daughter married G. T. January, of St. Louis. 4. SOPHIA WOODSON, md Jas. Hickman, brother of John L. 5. The wife of Logan Hunton. The Woodsons are related to hundreds of the most noted families of the West. THE BELL FAMILY. Francis M. Bell died in Weston. He was born February 3, 1828; married December 7 , 1847, Elizabeth Staggs. His parents were V111. H. Bell and .Mary Prather. The father was a man of wealth and business qualications. He came to Platte at an early day, and entered a section of land in Marshall Township. About 1847 he sold out. and removed to- Weston. to engage in the mercantile business. He built the large brick warehouse on the levee, and engaged largely in the purchase and sale of hemp and other produce. A man of means and honor, he did a large. but not a profitable, business. After a few years, he sold out. and re- moved to Mt. Pleasant. Kansas. where he died in 1874. His only child was: