Platte County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Newspaper Articles

- Charles M. Johnston, Treasurer of Platte County, has tendered his resignation to the County Clerk. Upon investigation it was learned that he had changed the denomination of two school warrants
one of $2 to $12, the other $9. to $19.. He confessed his guilt. His bondsman, will make all shortage good to the county.
Quincy Daily Herald #9, April 12, 1888 [C. Horton - 2008]

Platte County, Mo., Farmers Fight at a Church with Fatal Results
St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 11 – In a fight in a church at Sugar Lake, Platte county, Sunday, between William J. Burdette and his son William on one side, and G. W. Mays and his nephew Charles on the other, the elder Burdette was killed by a blow on the head with a fence rail, and the younger Burdette was fatally injured. The Mays were arrested and lodged in the St. Joseph jail.
(Source: The Langston City Herald, Langston City, O. T., February 22, 1896. Contributed by Dale Donlon)