This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Platt, Kendall, Zinn, Brooks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Wg.2ADE/3995 Message Board Post: Was A Pioneer of Adams County One of the pioneers of Adams county, a man who has lived in the neighborhood of Quincy practically all his long life passed away yesterday. Josiah H. Platt of Riverside died at 5:15 o'clock Monday afternoon. He had been in failing health for some time and death was due to the infirmities of old age. He was one of the early settlers in the county. In 1849 he went to California from here at the time of the gold fever, driving to the coast with an ox team, a trip that occupied six months. Mr. Platt was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, on Oct.17, 1831 and was therefore 84 years, 10 months and 25 days of age. He came with his parents to Quincy, Ill. when but a child and had resided here continuously since. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alanson Platt and was married to Sarah Anne Kendall on Nov. 6, 1859. The happy union was broken a little over a year ago. He is survived by eight children: James F., of Riverside township; Louis K. of Dallas, Texas; William E. of St. Louis, Mo; Harry H., of Riverside township; Mrs. Carl R. Zinn, McCloud, California; Josiah A., of Riverside township; Mrs. C.H. Brooks of 616 North Sixth avenue of this city, and Miss May at home. Thirty-three grandchildren are left to mourn his death. Funeral services will be held from the family residence Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Thomas Stephenson, of the First Baptist church will conduct the services. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery. Friends are invited to attend. >From the Quincy Daily Herald, Sept. 12 or 13, 1916