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Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Fulton County
Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1890

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The Biography of Henry I. WEAVER 

Pages 266-267, transcribed in full by Danni Hopkins 

[Surnames: CORNWELL, MARTIN, MITCHELL, WEAVER, WHEELER] 

    
HENRY I. WEAVER is numbered among the enterprising stock farmers of Deerfield Township. He sells but a portion of grain but devotes the entire produce of his farm to the stock which he raises and buys. His home is on the old homestead, which consists of eighty acres on section 3, all under good cultivation, well improved and abundantly supplied with whatever is needful in order to successfully prosecute the owner's occupation. Mr. Weaver is a representative of a family long known and highly honored in this county, where settlement was made by his grandparents in the spring of 1835. During the period of more than half a century that has elapsed since then, the record of the family and those who have married into it has been one of exceptional morality. Not only have they been free from habitual profanity, drunkenness and other vices, but they have also escaped arrest for any cause however slight, and have lived in peace and harmony with those about them. 
    
William Weaver, grandfather of our subject, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., in 1791. His wife, Mary Cornwell, was born in Washington County, May 14, 1797, and their marriage rites were celebrated at Connonsbury. In April, 1835, the couple located on section 2, Deerfield Township, this county, where the wife died April 19, 1855, and the husband April 11, 1879. In the family of this good couple was a son Joshua, whose birth took place in Green County, Pa., December 30, 1820. After reaching years of maturity he won for his wife Eliza A. Martin, who was born in Muhlenburg County, Ky., May 19, 1826, but at the time of her marriage was living in this county. The wedding took place in Deerfield Township October 21, 1851, and the union has resulted in the birth of three sons and one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Weaver are now living in Ellisville. 
    
The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch is the third son born to the couple just mentioned, and opened his eyes to the light of day March 6, 1859. He has spent his entire life in the township among whose citizens he has high rank, and to her public schools owes his educational training. He remained an inmate of his parents' home until his marriage, when he established himself on the homestead, buying the land from his father. The lady whom he won for his helpmate and companion and with whome he was united in marriage December 20, 1882, bore the maiden name of Marmry E. Mitchell. She is a daughter of Mathew H. and Calphurnia (Wheeler) Mitchell, and like her husband, was born in Deerfiled Township, her natal day having been May 24, 1863. Her father was born in Montgomery County, this State, and her mother in New York. 
    
Mr. and Mrs. Weaver of this sketch are the parents of three bright boys--Harry Dale, born August 12, 1883; Joshua Clare, born April 13, 1885; Ross, born September 26, 1889. Mr. Weaver is a Republican and takes sufficient interest in politics to be at the polls every election day and cast a straight ballot. He has served in the capacity of Township Supervisor and School Director. He and his wife belong to Ellisville Lodge, No. 401, I. O. G. T., and are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Weaver is Recording Secretary of the congregation at the Sharon Church and Superintendent of the Sunday-school, and takes a deep interest in church work. He and his wife are highly regarded by the members of the community, perpetuating as they are the excellent record of the Weaver family.