Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1877, FEB. 635 J. CRABB Feb. 4 - Two grown sons of Benedict Johnson are drowned at Iatan, by the breaking up of the ice in the Missouri. The Farmers' Savings Association purchase a lot on the northeast corner of Block 29, Platte City for a banking house. Feb. 11 - JEREMIAH CRABB having died. J. M. Browning S. A. Arnold Thos. L. Gabbert Feb. 14 - Methodist Episcopal Church supper at the court-house fire alarm jail L. Dearing & Son establish a house in Platte City for the sale of agricultural machinery. Feb. 17 - Jacob Swope died in California. born Lincoln County, Ky married Harriet F. Waggenner, daughter of Thomas and Mary Waggenner settled near Ridgely public administrator of Platte went to California in 1850 Feb. 18 - Weather, Incessant rain causes the Platte to overflow low bottoms. Ed Ruthven retires, and John W. Brady takes the Green House in Platte City. Feb. 20 - Thos. H. Colman's store in Platte City robbed of $130, while he was in it. Feb. 24 - E. C. Cockrill, having purchased T. G. Cockrill's dwelling in Platte City, makes a public sale of his farm, and removes into town. Fielding Burnes leaves his farm and comes to Platte City. Feb. 27 - WESLEY MARTIN dies. distiller lived near Smithville Mrs. Patterson P. M. Martin The Advocate is removed to the frame building north of the banking house of Cockrill & Co. The Electoral Commission Tilden Hayes County Debt MARCH March 1 - J. R. Swain purchases the Green House and puts it in complete order.