Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1889, MARCH. 896 J. ROBERTS March 9 - JAMES ROBERTS died. He was born in North Carolina in 1832; married March 10, 1868, Emily Whitton, who died November 3, 1884; 5 children. March 12 - JOHN C. TAYS having died March 1, 1889, E. R. George administered. Bond, $2,000. His wife was named Susan, and his children: 1. Catherine A. Tays, married Dec. 24, 1888, W. H. McBride 2. Sarah E. Tays 3. William D. Tays 4. Mary M. Tays 5. Allen F. Tays 6. John W. Tays 7. Robert H. Tays 8. Lydia A. Tays Platte City has a Comedy Company. March 14 - Pontoon meeting at Farley. DR. DOLPHUS I. FOUTS March 28 - Dr. Dolphus I. Fouts died near Farley. He was a son of Solomon Fouts and Sarah Couch, and born November 30, 1833, at Jefferson, Ashe County, N. C. He read medicine with Dr. Fitzsimmons. in Polk County, Tenn., whither the family had removed. After practicing a few years he came West, visited Pikes Peak, returned to Kansas in 1861. and crossed to Platte in 1862, locating at Farley, where, September 13, 1863, he married Minerva Parker, daughter of Asbury Parker. His wife still lives. He was a decided and outspoken Union man. and possessed sound judgment and shrewdness. Children: I. EMILY FOUTS. married John Wells of Kansas City. II. SARAH F. FOUTS III. DOLPHUS S. FOUTS IV. GEO. L. FOUTS. V. ALMA FOUTS. VI. GARFIELD FOUTS VII. CARRIE FOUTS. AUNT HARRIET WHALEY (colored) died two miles east of Platte City. She was reared and liberated by my step-mother, and had high regard for me and my family. Her aristocracy forbade her to associate with her race. as she being raised in freedom, considered herself above her people. Her intelligence and deportment, always respectful, called for the esteem of the whites. APRIL. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS School Commissioner - W. A. Banister Platte City - J. L. Carmack mayor; Blakley, Chesnut, and Jack aldermen. Parkville - Bosch, Dziubon, J. Fulton, Luthy, Ashby trustees. The Fair - B. F. Whitely president, W. Forman secretary. April 1 - W. H. Bane is preparing to build a brick dwelling on East Street, Platte City. The boring at Parkville for coal, by J. F. Pitt, resulted in striking a vein of water strongly impregnated with salt and sulphur.