Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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189-1, DEC. 1022 L. W. OWENS DECEMBER. lice. 101resbterian bazaar at Platte City cleared $60. The 1a1-kville PresbVterian Church has raised this year for l1o111e missions $150. Their ruling elders are: H. B. McAfee. Jesse Bell. Vm. Dager. D. S. Eccles, Prof. M. C. Findlay, Dr. A. L. \olfe. .otwithstanding tl1e severe drouth, a11d consequent alarm a.bont the corn crop. it is averaging 30 bushels per acre; and con- sidering the high price of 40 cents to 50 cents. it is the most valua- ble crop ever raised in the count). LORD V. OWENS (GILES). Dec. 1.} Lord W. Owens (Giles) died in Texas. He was born in Albemarle County. Va.. May 19. 1819; a son of Thompson Owens and Meriwether Brown. a cousin of Heriwether Lewis. of the exploring expedition of 1804. His grandfather was David Owens. an immigrant from England. He learned the carriage-making business, which he conducted in Charleston, W. Va. He married, first. Mary Brown. They removed to Columbus. Ohio, and thence to Independence, MO.. where he married, second. Mary Dnerson; we11t to California in 1849; in 1851 and 1852 dwelt at Weston. He married. third. in 1851. Jane Herndon; after a sojourn at Lib- err). came to Platte City in 1855: removed to Atchison in 1863: was appointed master mechanic for the overland stage li11e. In 1969 returned to Platte City. and in 1882 went to Kansas City. His last wife died October 29. 1887. and he died in Texas Decem- ber 11. 1894. He was a man of ne sense. and his varied experi- ence supplied him with a Vast amount of Varied information and a store of anecdote. Children: I. CL.-.Y OWENS (deadl. md Annette Murphy. 11. MORTON. n1d Maggie B. Jones. dr. of Thompson. 111. EDVYIN B. /M-. 781atterso11 & Gentrys ouring mill at Smithville burned. Loss. $25,000. /)r(. .?.?T. B. WINBl.RN is found dead in his carriage o11 the road near Yeston. (Seefl Dre. 2.,Dil1ard 1}akers barn. east of Platte City. with 900 bushels of grain. destroyed by fire. The county court a11d the city board are cutting down and niat-adami7.i11g the street. or road. at the east end of the Platte it iron bridge. lfnder their joint labors the hill has disap- peared. The n1aeadan1 cost 92 cents per perch. IN-r. 2.7(l11-ist111as observed at Platte (ity by all denomina- lions by a union tree a I" the opera house.