Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1874, APRIL 575 BRASHEAR FAMILY IV. JOHN S. BUSEY, dead. VI. FANNIE BUSEY, married Alf. Trimble. Children: 1. Viola Trimble VII. MARTHA BUSEY, married Sept, 2, 1847, Colman Shaw. Children: 1. Walter Shaw VIII. SARAH JANE BUSEY, b. in Shelby Co., Ky., April 4, 1831; d. Oct. 3, 1890; married in 1856, Jesse Brashear, b. June 6, 1830. Mrs. Brashear came with her parents to Platte in 1844. Children: 1. Lilly Brashear, married John Payne; 3 children. 2. Mary Brashear, married Richard Shouse. Mr. Jesse Brashear married second, January 6, 1892, Mrs. Sophia Keller, nee Ellington, and lives at Camden Point. He has served several terms as coroner, and is a Knight Templar. THE BRASHEAR FAMILY Levi Brashear, of Maryland, is the progenitor. His son, JOHN BRASHEAR Was born February 23, 1796; married in Scott County, Ky., Sarah Turner, born in 1800, daughter of Bejamin. Their children: I. LEVI BRASHEAR, b. in 1818; d. in 1800; married Permelia Johnson, of Scott County, Ky. She went to Texas with her children. II. AGNES BRASHEAR, married a Faulconer, in Kentucky. III. W. T. BRASHEAR, b. June 30, 1822, married Feb. 27, 1859, Nancy Kitchen, dr. of Weston Kitchen. She died in 1874, leaving: 1. W. R. Brashear, b. in 1867 IV. JESSE BRASHEAR, see above V. FANNIE BRAHSEAR, single THE OLIVER FAMILY April 22 - William E. Oliver died. Josiah Oliver was an emigrant from England, and settled in Fauquier County, Va. His son, John Oliver, died there, in 1840. He married Sibylla Eskridge, daughter of Burdette Eskridge. The widow and children came to Platte, and here the widow died, in 1850. Children: I. LEMUEL THOMPSON OLIVER, b. July 19, 1820 II. GRANVILLE JACKSON OLIVER (see), married Eliza Brightwell III. WILILAM E. OLIVER, married Anna Jackson, d. Oct. 6, 1876. Children: 1. Bettie Oliver, married April 13, 1886, Hon. Arch. M. Woodson, of St. Joseph, son of Benj. J. Woodson. He was b. in Knox County, Ky., Jan. 30, 1854; was brought, the same year, to Buchanan County, Mo., and thence to Platte in 1869; attended Plattsburg College two years, graduated at St. Louis Law School in 1877.