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"A Story on Peter Lee" - Drake Spencer said yesterday that he attended the Platte County Fair 44 years ago on August 29th (~1868). “My sister and I started to the fair from our home 15 miles from Platte City on our ponies and at the same time Peter Lee, a colored man who had been a slave in our family, started for the fair on foot. When sister and I rode up to the grounds, there was Peter crawling through a hole where a board had been broken off the fence. Father had given him a five dollar gold piece before he left home, but Peter knew easier ways to get in than buying a ticket.” Peter now lives at Oak Mills (an unincorporated community in Atchison County, Kansas). At one time he was the strongest man in the county. - Leavenworth Times.Date(s) of Creation
9/12/1912
