Description
Some months ago a man named Silas May abandoned his wife and children, near Weston, Missouri, and eloped with Mrs. McKee, the wife of his neighbor and the mother of several children.
Last Saturday week May returned to Platte County for the purpose of running off his negroes.
The neighbors, hearing of it, gathered for the purpose of driving him out of the county. May concealed himself, but he was discovered in chased through the woods several miles by two men named Bell and Barnes, who fired at him and brought him too. The citizens took his horse from him, and turned him loose with the injunction never to return to Platte County.
(Researcher's note: In 1847 Silas May was taxed on 3 slaves and the 1850 Slave Schedule indicates he enslaved 6 people, 5 described as mulatto. The 1850 Platte County Census indicates that Silas May was residing in Marshall Township with wife Polly and children Nancy, Levi, and Jerusha. Mary McKee was listed as being married to Melvin McKee and with a child named Samuel.)Date(s) of Creation
3/22/1858
