Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1881, SEPT. 736 N- NEWBY- The Old People met again. Their number is now 188 men and women. Sept. 5Hot winds, and vegetation drooping. Train robberies frequent, and the public indignation is intense. Sept. 1/,Fire at Kansas City. The Exposition building and other property destroyed. NATHAN NEWBY. Sept. 16Xathan Newby died in Marshall Township, aged 84. He inarried, in Kentucky, a Miss Potts. He possessed vi- Vacity. and was an untiring talker. He was a merry companion and given to practical jokes. H-e called himself Fool Nathe." At an early day he ran for representative of this county, and came near being elected. On one occasion, when the Govern- ment was buying bla.ck horses, he painted one, and sold it at the Fort. A few days later he found himself in prison. But he made himself so merry over the joke that t-hey allowed him to refund the money and take the horse. Children: I. JFDA XEWBY, d. Feb. 2, 1885; md June 9, 1840, A. J. Love- lady. b. in White County, Tenn, Oct. 18, 1815. His parents. Thomas Lovelady and Jane Ware, came from North Car- olina. Their son, A. J. Lovelady, at the age of 17, ca.me to Jackson County, 310., and thence, in 1837, to Platte. settling in Marshall Township. He is an upright and liiglily respected old gen~tleman, but is blind. He married second, Oct. .30. 1885. Sallie Henson. Children by his rst Wife: 1. (,2/ntlzia. .1. Lorcltltlg/. 1nd Feb. 18. 1860, Ira E. Graves. Children: ["] Azuba C. Graves, n1d Jan. 9. 1884. W. P. Abbott (see); [0] Jane Graves; [0] Judith; [fl] Sada, md April 2. 1890, John C. Evans; [9] Jackson (,h-ayes, 1nd Dec. 21, 1802, Jennie L. Ma.tl1eny; [f] Maude (lrraves; [II] Tl1o~1n~asGrayes. 2. ;unnic Lurtilmlg/. n1d Jan. 0, 1877, Perry S. Layton (see), b. Feb. 14. 1840. She was his second wife. :. .;uIIi( I.uzeI(zrIg/. md Dec. 21. 1870, Perry S. Layton. (Sm-,) She was his rst wife.. 4. Jlumlr I.nr(7(1Ir/. u1d M-arcli 0, 1873, Coriolanus Thorp. 1. Aug. 4. 1848, son of Judge 1). J. Thorp (see) and .;nah I42. Liiiville. (oriolanus possesses intelli- ;r-11-u and exiterprise. He has for many years pur- -lmsml 2l])[l(.. in l:llg( quzmtities. for sl1ip111e11t. at \esto11 and other points. (h: [1] YVillia1n L. llmx-p, mtl Nov. 8. 1802}. Lena Osborn (see); ["]- D. .1. Ilmrp till: ["] Eglwrt: [(7] Thvoinas EL: [0] Cori- olanus lhorp; [7] Roy Thorp. w