This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: na Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GMB.2ACE/643 Message Board Post: Hi folks. I noticed today that my new PC scanner enables me to scan a page from a book and then puts it on my wordpad that allows me to cut and paste. Below is an example. It comes from a random page of Paxtons Annals of Platte. I have 2 of these books. My original is loaned out and the one I have is from a reprint. Some of the text is very light and therefore looks garbled on the page. Also an "h" will appear as "li" for example. You can see from my reply to the Cox post that the one I copied from the Buchanan County book came out well. So if this will help anyone, let me know. Also, for the many from here who have asked me privately about my wife over the last year or so, she passed last Friday of cancer. Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers. I will watch the board more closely to keep myself busy. I do not keep an address book or I would reply privately. Please excuse this off-topic paragraph. Here is how the page came out: THE BRASFig^ 1839, JUNB. 30 my partners; went to San Francisco, and returned with stock of goods; sold them at great profit. My broti William died; and, in discouragement, I came home." ' December 11, 1851, Mr. Brasfield m'd his relative, Rat Brasfield, dr. of Claiborn. She was b. in Woodfor'd f Ky., October 15, 1826; d. March 30, 1890. Several child/' were born to them, but died in infancy. He m'd 2d, ^p 1,1894, Kate Briggs, of Kansas. ' v-In 1870, Mr. Brasfleld was elected a judge of the count court of Platte, and served three years. He is an ent] siastic Mason, and has attained the highest honors of i order. His genial, generous, and hospitable nature h made him a general favorite. His first wife was a be; tiful and lovely woman, and possessed a remarkably swe disposition. The Judge is wealthy, and, with his voui and accomplished wife, lives on his farm adjacent to Trae V. ELIZABETH WILLIS BRASFIELD, the youngest child [ Major Brasfield, was born June 3, 1831; m'd January is 1849. Judge Jas. Gr. Spratt, who came from Smith Co? Virginia, in 1842. August 7, 1843, he was appointed aju' . tice of the peace of Carroll Township; was deputy count clerk in 1852; read law privately; was elected probal judge in 1858, over Jas. Kuykendall, the late incumbel Mrs. Spratt was an intelligent and amiable lady. K died May 9. 1861. In September, 1864, Judge Spratt wa to Virginia City, and, while practicing law. engaged] speculation in mining stock. He died Nov. 13, 1881. B remains were brought back to Platte, and found rest In side his wife. In the practice of law. he was partner' Hon. Joseph E. Merryman, in Platte City. He was a g» lawyer, and was an honorable man. Ch: 1.' JnJin W. Rprntt. b. Dec. 29, 1849; m'd October 4, tf Mary A. Thatcher. After her death he m'd -" Duncan. No ch. 2. EfJf/ar Rprntt. b. Aug. 30. 1855; d. Aug. 11. 1882;" Aug. 30. 1877, Salena (Sibbie) Tha+cher, b. Apr'1,' 1860; d. April 8,1882. He was a merchant of Sm11 vi1le. The deaths of husband and wife within^ days of each other, of typhoid fever, created IBt alarm. Both were buried in the Brasfleld Oew^' ELECTION OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. ^ June 22?The election of justices of the peace for the to ships resulted as follows: , 1. For Preston Township: 1, Win. Banta; 2, Peter V e+t; 3, Arch Hill; 4, H. D. Oden. ^ 3. For Carroll Township: 1, Dan'1 Clary; 2. Jas. Flao" 3, J.W.Oibson; 4, Matthias Masten. '? ^ 3. For Pettis Township: 1, Andrew Campbell; 2. ' Pox; 3, Robt. Stone; 4, S. B. Thorp. I 31 JUSTICES. 1B39^^'- For Green Township: 1, Jac. A .q j C Bvwaters; 4, J. M. Fulkerson. ISi'00!'8'^' Lee "Township: 1, Robt. Logai Adamson; 2, Henry ? j- <-* i .i\. 1.1. ^v/JTl* Robt. Logan; 2, Robt. Patton; " For Lee Township: 1, t ynr-itt- 4, Chas. Wells. :i?J?I Foi-Marshall Township: 1, John B. Bounds; 2, Milton "? o Thos. Lovelady; 4, John P. Smith. F,vram» ' g^ie for each township was also elected, and the busi- '^"?inded their whole attention. '^The county court appointed Robt. Patton public adminis-,,.ator for Platte County. JULY. ,^, ff_Zadock Martin is granted ferry license at the foot of the '.Mv 1^_Judge King held his first term of the Buchanan Circuit Court at Roubidoux. j^,, ^_The first deed filed for record in the recorder's office for I'latte County. It is from Church to H'ughes, for a lot in Weston. Deeds were seldom made, as no title passed. A pre-emption right could not be assigned, but it might be leased. ITcnce many leases for 99 years are found of record. This month I arrived in Platte. I landed from a steamboat, with several companions, at Lexington. We purchased horses, and rode through Lafayette and Jackson counties to Wcstport?then three houses in the woods. Thence we went to Liberty, crossing at Fort Osage. After passing through Barry sind Martinsville, we reached Weston. by way of the lower Bee Creek bridge. Between the bridge and Weston, on what was then the Military Reserve, the ruins of a number of cabins, whence trespassers had been driven by the soldiers, were still smoking. Judge King held his second term of circuit court at the tnvern of M. D. Faylor in Martinsville. AUGUST. ion Aug' 7?The county court appointed for Carroll Township the nowmg patrol: i, ^\\ton Brown; 2, David Carson; 3, A. B. ^erwood; and 4, W. H. Spratt. JOHN DUNCAN. of Joh1^ T^0'111^ court appoints Hiram Stephenson administrator ^'illi-im"110^1' His widow ^ named Elizabeth, and his ch: '?? Susan ^°\Duncan; 2, Adeline; 3,Tilford; 4, Nelson; 5, Davis; "tephenson; 7, Martha Duncan; 8, Sam'1; 9, Mary. ^Pt. 2^ . , SEPTEMBER. ^nes IT n ^onard is appointed county surveyor. .^ ^pt. 3_ wen ^ves bond of $5,000 as collector. '-rook. - "am Crook is appointed administrator of William I will get my original and see if I can get them cleaned up a bit. This my be old news to some but this is new to me. I also need to tweak it a bit as it seems to have trouble with italics as well. Best wishes to all. Chuck McCardie Farley, MO