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An Old Citizen Gone - - (excerpted from longer article) - - Mrs. J. B. Wells died at her home a 1/2 mile east of Weston, January 3, 1903, at 9:30 p.m. Tabitha Cumi Davis was born June 13, 1814, at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. She married John Breckenridge Wells in 1832; moved to Missouri in 1833 and to Platte Purchase in 1837 at which time there were no white people in this part of Missouri except herself and husband. In 1838 her first son was born. Leander Wells was the first white child born in the Platte Purchase.
She controlled a number of negroes during slavery days and all her slaves loved instead of feared her.
(Researcher's note: In 1850 John B. Wells enslaved 15 slaves and 18 in 1860.)Date(s) of Creation
1/8/1903
