Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1886, FEB. 836 WOODS FAMILY. erecting; wigwains. They sometimes Cultivated a field in the prairie. in Green's Bottom. enclosing with brush and poles. I was at the Fort in 1827. The soldiers were in tents. I remember when the road was opened to B~a1-1). Ve crossed at the Falls of Platte, before Martin was there. The soldiers crossed the .[isso11ri in bottoms of barges. Children of Adam C. Woods: I. ANN WOODS, b. Oct. 17, 183:}; n1d Sept. 4, 1855, Thomas Chevis, who kept a. tavern in Barry in 1840; 6 children. II. WILLIAM WOODS, b. Jul) (3, 1836; 1nd Martha Cox; no children. III. ELIZABETH VOODS, b. Dec. 25. 1838; 1nd H. T. Ham. who was assessor of Platte in 1870-71. He is a carpen- I61 and conitractor, and now lives in Kansas City. Children: 1. Kate B. Ham, n1d Dec. 4, 1873, B. F. Vil1ian1~s. Mr. Ha111 h-as no other elhildiien. IV. SARAH JANE WOODS, b. Hart-h 10. 1840; d. in 1895; 1nd Geo. XV. XVil1ian1s; G chilId1enon=e is W111. XV. Wi11ian1s. of Clav. V. NANCY WOODS, b. March 31, 1842. , VI. ARGHIBALD WOODS (iii), b. March 29, 1845; dead. VII. JAMES B. WOODS, b. in 1853. VIII. MALCOLM T. WOODS, b. i11 1855; went to Utah and n1d Louisa : Fob. 20 - T. R. Valliant is appointed a manager of the Lunatic Asylum No. 2, at St. Joseph. Park College commences to erect McCormick Chapel, with -apacity to seat, in oor and galliery, 1,000 people. The Park Col- lege Howard is se11t weekly to 8,000 persons, r~l"i1tl1ltOuSlV. It is well edited. and the success of the institutioai is largely due to it. MARCH. March 7 - Teachers' Institute at Weston. March 11 - There is some ill-blood between Valliant and Mundy over county printing, which was given to the Chronicle. March 16 - W. D. SAUNDERS having died, C. M. Siler administered. Bond, $12,000. He was a prosperous farmer of Marshall Township. He married Louisa Plummer. 1. H. W. Saunders, married Mildred Kindred 2. James Saunders, married E. Jerome 3. Mary H. Saunders, married E. E. Siler 4. Emily Saunders, married 1st Henry Williams, 2d, John Barrow 5. Ben P. Saunders, married 1st Myra Keller, 2d, Florence O. Eder 6. Lucy Saunders, married Wash G. Horton 7. Amanda Saunders, married Sterling Rose 8. Eliza Saunders, married Thos. Dyer 9. W. G. Saunders, married Phoebe Dyer 10. John E. Saunders, single March 20 - RICHARD ALLEN was found dead in his bed