Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1881, NOV. 739 J. G. SPRATT. tractor and builder. He erected the public school-house, the M. and P. church, and other la1ge buildings in Platte City. For the last fifteen years of his life he was county surveyor, and was better acquainted than any other man in the county. He was a zealous Baptist, and for years was superintendent of the Baptist Sunday-school. He was plain. plodding, and persevering-made money steadily, spent nothing, but died insolvent. No children. Nov. 7 - Ex-Confederate meeting at the court-house. Colonel J. H. Winston president. and Dr. E. McD. Coffey secretary. CHRISTIAN HENNE died. aged 83. Nov. 10 - Dr. John A. Brooks spoke at Platte City on Temperence. Irish potatoes worth $1.00 per bushel. and corn about the same. Nov. 14 - JUDGE JAMES G. SPRATT died at Butte. Mont.. of apoplexy. He was born in Smith County, Va., June 30. 1826, came to Platte in 1841. was a brother of Sheriff W. H. Spratt. became a partner of Joseph E. Merryman in the practice of law at Platte City, was probate judge one term, and left for Montana in Septemebr, 1864. He became corpulent. and weighed 235 pounds. He married Elizabeth W. Brasfield. (See The Spratt Family.) Nov. 15 - The county court appoints W. H. H. Dougherty county surveyor, in place of Slone, deceased. Nov. 20 - L. Fleshman leaves his farm and takes charge of his hotel in Platte City. Nov. 28 - BEN BUCKNER. died. aged 75. DECEMBER. Dec. 1 - Rev. T. R. Valliant donated. REV. PHILIP BURRUSS. Dec. 2 - Rev. Philip Burruss died near New Market. He was a son of Captain Edward Burruss and Fanny Jones. and was born in Culpeper County, Va... May 20. 1807. In 1808 his father moved to Mercer County, Ky., and purchased land near Salvisa. Here the child grew up to manhood. was educated at George- town, and at the age of 27 was licensed as a Baptist minister. and preached until 1842, when he came to Platte. He married Tinie A. Guthrie, who was born in May. 1824. a11d died April 3. 1884. His ministrations extended throughout Platte and adja- cent counties. I often met him, and found him an intelligent. earnest, and devoted Christian. Children: I. WILLIAM E. BURRUSS, b. October 17, 1843; married August 10, 1862, Laura Penny, daughter of Eli Penny of Clay. He lived at Tracy, adn