Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1885, MARCH. 813 S. COLLIER. Indictments for selling liquor without license. The grand jury finds 43 indictments against Harvey Baker, and he is fined $40 on 31 of the indictments; but execution is stayed in 21 cases. That means that the circuit court exercises the pardoning power. March 25 - Allen McDowell, Masonic lecturer, is instructing the county lodges. William Ohlhausen puts the Holladay Mills at Weston in complete order with rollers. Elder Joseph Lowe gives a course on temperance lectures at Platte City. SIMEON COLLIER. Simeon Collier died in Marshall Township. He was born in Kentucky August 20, 1804, educated in Maysville, Ky., married September 11, 1827, Elizabeth Burkshire, who died March 2, 1871. Mr. Collier was an enterprising and successful farmer near New Market. Children: I. ROBERT S. COLLIER, married Margaret Fulton, daughter of Hugh Fulton Children: 1. Mary Collier 2. Elizabeth Collier 3. Thomas Collier 4. James Collier 5. Wade Collier 6. Annie Collier 7. Cleo Collier II. NANCY JANE COLLIER, married A. A. Downing. who was deputy collector under Sheriff Ogden, and a man of business. The family removed to Kansas. III. THORNTON S. COLLIER, married July 6, 1892. Mary B. Bigham. IV. ASENATH COLLIER, married Jas. A. Gault, b. March 27, 1835, in Maysville, Ky.; studied law. entered the Confederate army. and fell in battle in 1864. His daughter Mary Elizabeth Gault married Archie Fulton. V. HANNIBAL COLLIER VI. AMELIA COLLIER March 28 The first number of the Parkville Independent issued by Gharky & Tucker. APRIL. ELECTIONS. April 1 J. L. Carmack is reelected mayor of Platte City. and Edwards, Hunt, and Mason were chosen aldermen. A vote was taken. and resulted favorably to dividing the school dis- trict. and making Tracy separate from Platte City. Zarn and Blakley were chosen school directors. An additional tax was Voted down; a11d it was decided not to build a colored school house. James Dye was chosen president of the fair, and E. C. Cockrill secretary. T. C. Munson was elected school commissioner.