Description
“Atchison’s First Wedding” - - (excerpted from longer article) - - In the Fall of 1856 they (James T. Darnall and wife Annie (Simmons) Darnall) moved to Jefferson County, Kansas, where they saw their hardest days, and moved back to Platte City in 1858 where Mr. Darnall was county assessor in 1860. He enlisted in Price’s army in the Eleventh Missouri Infantry at Fort Smith, Ark., in 1862, and went through the war without getting a scratch, his wife spending her period of war widow in Texas. Mr. Darnall’s father (William T. Darnall near Platte City, Missouri) owned 40 slaves so it doesn’t take much guessing to put Mr. Darnall on the losing side.Date(s) of Creation
10/25/1905