Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1877, OCT. 645 THE TIMBERLAKES. The munieipal tax of Platte City is $1 on the $100, and added to the county. State. and sehool tax. we pay It per H-Ill. Eight prisoners in jail. Heavy rains. Coekrill & \oodson erect hay st-ales in l1il(. Oct. 2J~o~hn Ellis shot in the neck by Hen. .oland; cause, WhiSkV. TopiesBlaek, bold, bald, blank (speak these adjeetives fast) repudiation. The Russo-Turkish War. Hog eholera. The haml- marks abuse of Judge Owens. The I~111n1e11sikoii"s. NOVEMBER. Nov. .-3Burn~es Addition to Tracy is vacated. (See County Record M, p. 1622.) Peter Kline died. aged 45. His son, 1ete1, married Decem- ber 12. 1894. (haritv Olvis. The bridge i1(10SS St1;:a1- (reek Complete; cost, $618. Meeting of the stoekholders of the Arlroeute. The following directors were (.ll0S-E112 Callieotte. Dunean. (}llllll1l(, \aller & Voods0n. Nov. 9)Iorin makes eha.r;:es against 1). R. Aiitlioiiy, and Anthony replies i11 tl1e 1ime.s. Morin. feeling sore over the casti- gation -Xntl1~ony gives him. pitches into Paxton for his opposition to secession. Paxton replies by a poem. entitled Old Jess. The laugh was turned on .Iorin, and he never troubled Paxton any more. The old war spirit is rampant. Not. 2.2. F. M. lI(-(iorniiel;s sale. hogs brou;:ht 4 rents, corn 30 cents. Nor. 2/;Henry Grayls barn burned near Valdron. Loss, $5.000. X01. 2.)(S1111(lay) The Tontine meets at Masonic Hall. .ieh~olas Tinlberlake died near \aldron. THE TIMBERLAKE 1.Mll.Y. The progenitor of our branch of the Timberlalte fan1il was a citizen of St. L-o11is in the first deeade of this -entur. I have 11ot been able to learn his (Jhristian name. Ile died about 1817. and his widow. a second wife. reinoved to St. (hat-les. and resided there with her family until the Il:,1tte lands were opened for settlelnent. Ea..rl) in 1.937 she came, with her ehildren and step ehildren. and all settled elaims near \aldron. The widow died man) years ago. Three of the sons interest the ehronieler of Platte (ountV: I. JOHN H. lI.IBElll..I{E. Born in St. Louis in 1.900; died in Independent-e. .lo., in 1803. He came with his mother in 13".. and lived near \aldron until about