Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1889, AUG. 904 DR. B. BONIFANT Aug. .23-Stillings has a bridge celebration, or rather a grand spree. He les his plat of the town of Stillings. J. T. McRuer sells to R. W. Pack his interest in the Platte City store. DR. BENJAMIN BONIFAN T died at Weston.. He was re- garded as the head of the medical profession in Platte. He was born in Montgomery County, Md., February 15, 1821. His father was John Bonifant and his mother Mary Turcker. He lived and worked upon his fathers farm until 1839, when he commenced the study of medicine at Je7ers.o~n Medical College, of Phila~ delphia, where he graduated in 1849. In 1850 he settled at Weston. where his life-work was done. During the war he served as surgeon of the 4th State Militia. He married, October 20. 1855, Matilda L. Leachn1a.vn.. (See) Her family has been noticed. MORRIS ELLINGER. Horris Ellinger, son of M. L. and Judith Ellainger, died at \eston. He was United Sta.te=s gauger for the county, and for years kept a saloon at Weston. H-e was born in Germany Janu- ary 9, 1830. came to the United States in 1850, and to Weston in 1852. He married, in 1854, Ma.rga.ret Whittoan, who still lives. Children : I. LIZZIE ELLLINGER, b. April 17, 1857; md June 28. 1883, George A. Voo-dbridge, b. in Indiana. January 18, 1856. He is a telegraph operator at Beivevrly. I1. CHARLES M. ELLLINGER. III. JvAMES. IV. JOHN. Aug/. .27The fair commenced; new oral hall opened. irate fees ThursdaV, $1,251. The sum of $1,000 paid on the debt. SEPTEMBER. DAVID MCCOLUM. Sept 7-David McColuni died three miles sotutuh of Platte City. He was one of the old stock o-f hardy pioneers. He had no aspira- tions for wealth or distiln-ction. Like the Arkansas settler, his cabin was not covered; his crap was an acre of corn. pumtpkins. and weeds; his olor was mother eartli, and his store a. jug of whisky. Old Incle Dave was one of niy earliest acquiaintances in Platte. He was a kin-d-liezarted and generous old soul. and I never went to a l()g-]0vlllI1, o-r a. sale that he was not prese-nit; yet he never l)0ll,,llt an article that was offered for sale. and he never emlld get a ll2lI1(l.p1ll(G to suit him. But eVerx,"b~odV liked Unele l)a.gv. His father. his gra:ndfat.her and his great-grandfather were all named 1)-a\; but with lint-le I)a.vV the line ended. His mother was Polly Reed, and he (Davy (V) ) was born in Garrard (ou11t, K,.. Ja1mar)2... 1802. He married, April 4. 1824. Polly (lentry. lau;:hter of anot-her good old pioneer. Isom Gentry (iii), nf l):Nl{\(m(lS memory. She was born Mare-l1 17, 1800, in Lincoln (ount. Ky. Children: