Platte County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Obituaries

Name of Deceased: McGuire
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: October 29, 1857
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Fatal Accident.
An Irishman by the name of McGuire, apparently about 35 years of age, was accidentally killed on the morning of the 14th inst., at the farm of Benj. Morton, two miles south of this place. The deceased, who was a teamster in the employ of the United States, had stopped with his companions to feed their teams at Mr. Morton’s. They had built a fire at the root of a dead tree and spreading their blankets upon the ground, slept around it. During the night the tree burned through and about daylight fell across McGuire’s breast. He lived only long enough to be carried a short distance to the house of Mr. Morton.
On his person was found $580 in gold which was taken possession of by the Public Administrator of Platte County, W. M. Paxton. The deceased was recently from Fort Pierre, on the Upper Missouri.--
[Platte City Atlas.

Harry Abbott
April 6, 1876

Died at Parkville, Mo., March 17, of membranous croup, Harry, aged 6 years, 7 months, only child of Thomas H. and Fannie Abbott.
Taken From the Henry Republican, Henry, IL - Submitted by Nancy Piper - 2009

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)

Dick Loan, farmer, left his bed near Platte City, Mo., and hanged himself with a trace chain.
Source: The Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) January 19, 1892, Submitted by Barb Z)

W. E. Olvis, one of the pioneer settlers of Platte County, Mo., and one of its wealthiest and most influential farmers, is dead at the home of his son-in-law, Frank Pitts, in East Leavenworth. Olvis died of a complication of diseases. He was about 60 years old and had lived in Platte county for the past forty years.
(Valley Falls Vindicator, January 17, 1902, page 2. Contributed by Peggy Thompson)