Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1875, AUG. 607 THE ESKRIDGES I. ELIZA FOX, married Dec. 28, 1865, John Eskridge; 9 children. II. JOHN E. FOX, b. April 2, 1849; married Nov. 9, 1871, Virginia E. Phillips. Children: 1. Sarah Fox 2. Mattie Fox 3. Howard Fox 4. Walter Fox III. JAMES V. FOX, b. Sept. 25, 1853; married in Sept. 1876, Mary Havens, of Daviess County, Mo. Children: 1. Annie R. Fox, b. July 17, 1877 IV. GEO. D. FOX, b. June 24, 1858; married March 29, 1877, Ida Winn, of Daviess County, Mo. Children: 1. Sarh M. Fox 2. Laura Fox 3. William H. Fox 4. James Fox 5. Charles Fox 6. Mary E. Fox William A. married second Rachel Vallandingham, widow of Austin Vallandingham. She died, childless, December 28, 1884. William A. married third, in May, 1890, Mrs. Mary E. Little. She survived him and went to Arkansas. Colonel John H. Winston THE ESKRIDGES Mrs. James Fox was an Eskridge. Her mother was a Moxley, who was descended from the Lee family, of Virginia. Aug. 14 - A frightful accident occurred on the C., R. I. & P. Railway, five miles south of Plattsburg, in which one was killed and thirty wounded. Aug. 16 - DR. JACOB LARRY, of Iatan, took strychnine and then blew his brains out with a pistol. He was born in South Carolina; came to Atchison, Kansas, in 1856, graduated at Charleston Medical Collegein 1861, entered the Southern army, and served several years; in 1864 he married Miss L. A. Hudson, located in Iatan in 1866, and was fast rising in public favor. His wife survived him. Children: 1. Gladys Larry 2. Ernest Larry 3. Marsden Larry 4. Albert Larry Zach Roy, while drunk, lay down on the railroad track between Camden Point and Tracy, and while asleep, was run over and killed by cars. CORNELIUS COOPER Aug. 18 - Cornelius Cooper died three miles north of Platte City. He was born in Franklin County, Va., June 22, 1802, and came to Platte in 1844. His widow was Nancy, and children: