Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1891, DEC. 955 J. A. PRICE The Keeley Institute is in operation at Leavenworth. Dr. R. P. C. Johnston, having been cured of the drink habit, gives up his medical practice at Dearborn and advocates the Keeley cure. Weather - The 14th, 10 degrees below; 15th, 10 degrees above, 16th at zero, 20th 22 degrees above; 21st 8 degrees above. Six inches of snow. Dec. 17 - D. E. Bailey's house burned. The annual election of officers for the fair is changed to the third Monday in January of each year. Dec. 20 - The new Christian church in Platte City is finished, except seats. Dec. 25 - Christmas tree at Elm Grove. DB. JAMES A. PRICE Parents Nathaniel Price and Nancy Lee born in Bedford County, Va. February 5, 1852 married first, Rosetta Warner, a sister of Thos. F. Warner elected August 1859 clerk of the Weston Court of Common Pleas, reelected in 1860 December 1862 enlisted in the 18th Missouri Militia and was made captain severely wounded at Shiloh engaged in recruiting for the 16th Kansas practice of dentistry at Weston, and for a time opened an office at Platte City 1874 elected mayor of Weston and reelected in 1880 held the office of postmaster at Weston died December 16, 1875 I. NATHANIEL E. PRICE II. MARY B. PRICE III. MINERVA W. PRICE IV. NANNIE C. PRICE V. BEN W. PRICE Colonel Price married, second, May 26, 1880, Mattie Gibson living in Savannah, Mo. Odd Fellows Good Templars Mason