Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1896, FEB 1054 S. LOWMAN. uted by Duncan Mackay. The cornerstone was laid in June, 1887. and the death of Mr. Mackay, and other impediments, delayed its completion. Feb. 28 - Jesse Collins has erected a beautiful frame residence on Atchison Hill, south of Platte City. Chas. A. Smiths poem on Washington in the Chronicle is creditable. It is good in measure, rhyme, and sentiment, but lacks in diction. A sufficient sum has been secured to build an Observatory for Park College, and the Work has been crommenced. Feb. 29 - Mrs. Elizabeth W. Mann's 74th birthday was celebrated by a reunion of all her descendants. except Mrs. Swope, at the old homestead, eight miles east of Platte City. The weather for February was remarkably pleasant, and the warmest for 29 years; yet every day the thermometer fell to the freezing-point. No damage has been done to fruit. There was only 2 inches of snow, and only a half inch of rain and melted snow. Topics - War in Cuba. Free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Terrible roads. Wheat not promising. County court granting dramshop license on a majority petition. Large numbers of Democrats announcing themselves for "county offices. Daughters of the Confederacy and their coming 4th of July celebration at the fair grounds. SAMUEL LOWMAN Died lately at his home on Smiths Fork. He was born in Virginia February 22, 1805. He married. first, Charlotte Tridrick. Children: I. ELIZABETH LOWMAN, married E. G. McFall. II. MARGARET LOWMAN, married Jacob Kraus III. EPHRAM LOWMAN, married A. H. Dean Aker. IV. SARAH LOWMAN, married John Ecton V. JOHN LOWMAN, b. Sept. 9, 1845; married Nov. 5, 1875, Georgia Silvertooth. Children: 1. Willie Lowman 2. Albert Lowman 3. Myrtle Lowman 4. Estella Lowman 5. Dean Lowman 6. Luella Lowman Mr. Samuel Lowman married, second, Sarah Ecton. Children: VI. JAMES H. LOWMAN MARCH LAND SALES Heirs of Daniel Carey to Joseph Carey, the Carey homestead, 160 acres, at $50 per acre. J. W. Magee to Bywaters & Harris, 80 acres near Settle, at $42,50 per acre.