Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1895, MARCH. 1033 PARK FAMILY H. H. Collier, of Kentucky [e] Elihu Dillingham (ii) [f] Jennie Dillingham VIII. ELIZABETH PARK, married John W. Boyd IX. BARBARA PARK, married John Richardson II. EBENEZER PARK Brother of John Park (i), married a Turner, and his fifth child was: I. TURNER PARK, married Winnie Park. Their son. 1. Solomon D. Park, came to Platte, and married E. A. Clements. MARCH March 1 - The early part of winter was warm and dry, but throughout February the weather was extremely cold, and there was plenteous harvest of ice. March 14 - A blizzard - the thermometer at 4 degreez above. Lee Township, under township organization, votes a tax of $600 to spend on roads leading to the new bridge at Leavenworth. March 16 - T. B. George's silver wedding largely attended. March 17 - Dr. Jacob Ditzler makes a series of lectures at Platte City on baptism and kindred topics. March 29 - The house of Thos. N. Daniels and the barn of Oscar G. Robinson, near Parkville, burned. The court rents the 80-acre poor-farm, southeast of Platte City, for $260, to A. J. McClain, who is to charge $1 per week board for inmates. In the State oratorical contest at Kansas City, Perle D. Decker, a student of Park College, took the second prize. APRIL April 1 - C. W. Bowen elected school commissioner; A. F. Walruf elected mayor of Weston, and D. A. Hook mayor of Leavenworth. April 9 - Fire in Smithville. Gentry, Oldham, Lincoln and Couter burned out. The last lost 15 horses. John H. Kempphefner died. THE KEMPHEFNER FAMILY John H. Kemphefner was born in Germany Febraury 27, 1814; d. in Platte in April 9, 1895; married in 1841 Elizabeth Hill, born January 9, 1812; died March 31, 1895. Her husband survived her but nine days. In 1842 they came to America, and settled in 1866 near Waldron.