Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1875, AUG. 609 THE MARKOWS b. in Estill Co., Ky., Oct. 12, 1833. They live near Linkville. Children: 1. Alice Park, b. in 1855; married May 18, 1884, Jesse B. Miller, who died Aug. 11, 1891, leaving a widow and twins: [a] Park Miller [b] Jesse Miller 2. Clay Park 3. Milton Park, married March 4, 1879, Maggie Pope, daughter of Jas. A. Pope 4. Jonathan Park, married a Callahan 5. Lee Park 6. Turner Park 7. David Park, married Jan. 17, 1897, Lela Grooms 8. James Park IV. THOMAS CLEMENTS V. DAVID CLEMENETS and VI. GUS CLEMENTS b. Nov. 29, 1853 are dwarfs VII. JASPER CLEMENTS, killed at the battle of Camden Point, July 14, 1864 Aug. 27 - S. C. MORROW having died, W. W. Morrow administrered. He married Susanna Ellis, daughter of Doctor Ellis. Children: 1. W. W. Morrow, married March 20, 1878, Belle Harris 2. Frank M. Morrow 3. Ruth J. Morrow 4. Doctor Morrow 5. Perry Morrow Aug. 29 - Sunday school meeting in Platte City Park College opens with 110 pupils, and a faculty consisting of John A. McAfee, president, and Professors Wilson, Merrywether, and Evans, assistants. SEPTEMBER No fair held this year; reason - grasshoppers. Sept. 2 - Inauguration of the Atchison bridge; speakers, Burnes, Harvey, Ingalls, and Osborn. Sept. 14 - Ex-president Jefferson Davis at Kansas City. Sept. 15 - Sunday-school reunion at the Baptist church, of all the Platte City schools. Sept. 24 - A Good Templar convention at Hickory Grove. H. C. Nichols president, and H. J. Mayo secretary. The Narrows fell in, and the mouth of the Platte is six miles higher up the Missouri. The old bed of the Platte, below the Narrows, becomes a slough, and gradually fills up. Sept. 27 - Kansas City depot burned. OCTOBER Oct. 2 - S. A. Gilbert resigns as judge of the Weston Court of Common Pleas, and the county court appoints W. H. Roney in his place.