Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1889, AUG. 904 DR. B. BONIFANT Aug. .23Stillings has a bridge celebration, or rather a grand spree. He les his plat of the town of Stillings. J. T. )IcRuer sells to R. XV. Pack his interest in the Platte Oity store. DR. BENJAMIN BONIFANT die-d at Weston.. He was re- garded as the head of the medical profession in Platte. He was born in Xiontgoimery County. Md., February 15, 1821. His father was John Bonifant and his mother Mary Tueker. He lived and worked upon his fathers farm until 1839, when he commenced the study of medicine a-t Jetl7erso-n Medical College, of P.hila~ delphia. where he graduated in 1849. In 1850 he settled at \eston. Where his life-WOIl{ was done. During the War he served as surgeon of the 4t1h State Militia. He married, October 29. 1855, Matilda L. Lleaelimain. (See) Her family has been noticed. MORRIS ELLINGER. Morris Ellinger, son of M. L. and Judith Ellinger, died at \eston. He was Unlited .Seta.tes ganuger for the county, and for years kept a saloon at West0n. He was born in Germany Ja.nu- ary 9. 1830. came to the United States in 1850, and to Weston in 1852. He married, in 1854, lIar-ga.ret Whitrto~n, who still lives. Children : I. LIZZIE ELLINGER, b. April 17, 1857; n1d June 28. 1883, George A. V00-dbridge. b. in Indiana, January 18, 1856. He is a telegraph operator at Beverly. 11. CHARLES M. ELLLINGER. III. JvAlIE~S. IV. JOHN. Aug. 27The fair commenced; new oral hall open-ed. Gate fees Thursday, $1,251. The sum of $1,000 paid on the debt. SEPTEMBER. DAVID MCCOLUM. Sept 7David McColum died three miles SOl11tl1 of Platte City. He was one of the old stock of hardy pioneers. He had no aspira- tions for wealth or distiinc-tion. Like the Arkansas settler. his cabin was not covered; his crap" was an acre of corn, pumpkins. and weeds; his floor was mother ea1tl1, and his store a. jug of whisky. Old Fncle Dave was one of my earliest acquaintanlces in Platte. He was a kind~-hearted and generous old soul, and I never went to a log-roalling o-r a sale that he was 11ot present; yet he never bought an article that was offered for sale, and he never muld get :1. liamlspdke, to suit him. But eerybod liked Uncle lbayy. His father. his grazndfatlier and his great-grandfatlier were all naim-l Davy; but with Uncle Dayy the line ended. His mother was Polly Reed, and he (Davy (V) ) was born in Garrard (,ount. I{.. January 22. 1802. He married. April 4. 1824. Polly (ientry. daughter of another good old pioneer. Isom Gentry (iii), of bmj-kw(md. memory. She was born l[ar(--11 17, 1806. in Lincoln (A()l]Ili. Ky. C111