Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1892, JAN. , 960 THE JOHNSONS. I. MARY JOHNSON. married May 31, 1889, William J. Ralston. (See.) His second wife.) II. MRS. FANNIE MUNSON, of Kansas. 111. MRS. LAURA PETTIT. IV. A. F. JOHNSON, lived with his Mother until her death. V. AMANDA, married Geo. P. Buchanan. (See) VI. ALBERT, married Sept. 2, 1886. Stella M. Higgins. Jan. 13 DORA BONS, wife of Everhart Bons, died at Weston. She was born in Prussia October 23, 1815. and married Mr. Bons May 10, 1844. They came to Weston in 1849, and there Mr. Bons still lives. They were Catholics. Jan. 18 J. Ed Miller. elected president of the fair, and William Forman secretary. The Legislature changes our Congressii-onal District, No. 4, and it now embraces the old Platte country, to-wit: Andrew County, Atchison. Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway, and Platte. Total population, 164,469. Jan. 18 The Populists form an insurance comapny that proved a success. H. Koster and Cam. Wells buy 17 acres of land of Charles Kurtz, lying east of and adjacent to Platte City, and lay off Kosters Addition. Koster, Wells, and Dr. S. Redinan build new houses upon it. H. Koster and W. C. Wells purchase ground at Tracy and proceed to build a grain elevator. All the contracts are let to G. W. Jenkins. GEO. P. YOUNG. Jan. 25 George P. Young died at Platte City. He was a son of Loyd B. Young, of Tennessee, and was born September 1, 1831. He learned the saddlers trade, came to Platte about 1852, and married March 28, 1854. Marcella Hodge, born March 22, 1838: died March 26. 18%. She was the daughter of James L. Hodge and Eliza Beckum, now Mrs. Tolly. His widow married, second, June 6, 1895, S. A. Rose, of Stanbury, and left him. She died in 1896. Children: 1. JENNIE YOUNG, single.