Peter Weaver

As printed in 1882

PETER S. WEAVER, farmer, P. 0. Pyrmont, born in this county, Jefferson Township, January 29, 1840, is a son of Peter and Cassidiana (Fisher) Weaver, natives of Pennsylvania. The grandfather, Michael Weaver, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio with his family and located in Jefferson Township in June, 1804, being one of the early pioneers, locating on Little Bear Creek, three miles north of Miamisburg. Here he opened out right in the woods, and experienced all the wildness and hardships of those pioneer days, and here he lived and died. The maternal grandfather, Fredey rick Fisher, was also an early settler here a few years later than the Weaver family. Peter Weaver was in his eleventh year when his father brought them to this new country; was raised and injured to the many hardships of pioneer life; grew to maturity; was married and became the father of four children, three now living — Johu, Henry P. and Peter S. Mr. Weaver was twice married, and the first two children mentioned above were by his first wife, and the last mentioned by his last wife; he died July 20, 1879, aged nearly eighty-six years; his wife is still living, now eighty-one years of age. Mr. Weaver was a carpenter by trade and a natural mechanic, being able to make and construct almost anything made from wood. He made quite a leading business of manufacturing wind mills for many years; he made and put up the first one ever erected in Ohio, and at the time was only nineteen years of age. He was a remarkably hard-working, industrious man, of undoubted integrity of character, an active church member, being a member of the Lutheran Church sixty years or more, and holding all the prominent offices in the church — Trustee, Deacon and Elder; one who gave freely of his labor and means to build churches and support the Gospel, and ! in his death the community lost a worthy citizen and the church an earnest worker. Our subject lived with his father till his majority. Was married, March 1, 1860, to Huldah Anna, daughter of James and Sarah Sharits, he a native of Virginia, and she of Pennsylvania, becoming residents of this county about 1830; by this union they have had nine children, six now survive: Adelia M., Martha M., Sarah C., Adam O., Margaret A. and Amanda E. Mr. Weaver, after his marriage, resided with his father and carried on his farm eight years; thence bought and located in Jackson Township till in 1876 he sold out, and in the fall of 1878 bought and located upon his present farm, which consists of sixty-five acres, fifty of which are in cultivation with good buildings and improvements, constituting a very pleasant home. Mr. Weaver, by his industry, acquired a good competency, but has met several losses — had his barn burned, lost quite heavily by a severe storm, and some by bad debts; estimating all his losses since his marriage from above causes to reach at least $4,000. Notwithstanding, he still lives comfortably fixed, and has the right faith and courage to go on and take life agreeably. Mr. Weaver follows the footsteps of his father in his devotion to Christianity; became a member of the Lutheran Church when seventeen years of age, and was taken into the church by one of the first preachers of this denomination in this county, Rev. Henry Heinaker; since living at his present location, he is a great distance from any Lutheran Church, and for convenience he and his wife have joined the United Brethren Church.

As printed in The history of Montgomery county, Ohio, containing a history of the county; (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.