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Surname: Weaver, Chalk, Dimmitt, Jackson, Lister, Reese, Spitzer, Tolliver,
Walker, Whickar
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Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp.
502, 507
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
PATRICK HENRY WEAVER, the oldest living settler of Tippecanoe County, and
one of the oldest residents of Indiana, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia,
in the year 1803, a son of PETER and MARTHA (WALKER) WEAVER, his father
a son of PETER WEAVER, and of German ancestry, and his mother a daughter
of HENRY WALKER, a native of Virginia, and of Scotch-English descent.
In 1807 the parents of our subject immigrated to Indiana and settled in
what is now Wayne County, three miles south of Richmond, where the father
entered 160 acres of land from the Government. By his unceasing energy
and industrious habits he soon acquired a valuable estate, but through
his naturally kind and obliging nature he lost all he had by becoming a
bondsman for a sheriff of Wayne County, who left him to pay the trust.
By this stroke of misfortune he was compelled to begin life anew, and in
1824 he settled on the rich prairie lands of Tippecanoe County, which had
attracted his attention during his services as Lieutenant in a company
of Rangers, during the Indian war of 1812. Here he entered a tract of land
adjoining Burnett's Reserve, and by his characteristic energy in its cultivation
and improvement, he was rewarded in such a manner that at his death he
left a valuable property to his family. He was one of the honored and respected
pioneers of Tippecanoe County, in which he always took an active interest.
For several years he served as county commissioner. In his political affiliations
he was a Whig. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He died in March, 1863, at the advanced age of ninety-six years.
His wife died in 1825, aged forty-two years. They were the parents of seven
children, but two of whom are now living-PATRICK H., the subject of this
sketch, and MOSES, who resides in Clark County, Missouri, aged seventy-four
years.
PATRICK H. WEAVER was but three years old when his parents moved to Indiana.
He grew to manhood on a frontier farm in Wayne County, and in his twenty-first
year he came to Tippecanoe County and assisted his father in making a home
out of the forest. He remained under the home roof until his marriage,
which occurred February 26, 1829, to MISS ALICE DIMMITT, a daughter of
WILLIAM and SUSAN DIMMITT, who came from Tennessee to Wayne County, Indiana,
in an early day, where MRS. WEAVER was born. They were among the early
pioneers of Tippecanoe County, coming here in the year 1825. After his
marriage, MR. WEAVER settled on a farm of 162 acres of unimproved land
in Burnett's Reserve, where he has followed agricultural pursuits for over
fifty-eight years, and is now the owner of over 500 acres of finely improved
land. MR. WEAVER was bereaved by the death of his wife in 1884, after a
happy married life of fifty-five years. Eleven children were born to them,
as follows: MILTON W., born November 18, 1829, now resides in White County,
Indiana; SUSANNAH, born August 29, 1831, is the wife of NIMROD LISTER,
of Wayne Township; MARTHA, born March 2, 1833, widow of WILLIAM CHALK,
resides with her father; HARRIET, born January 28, 1835, is the wife of
DANIEL JACKSON, of Wayne Township; THIRSAH, deceased wife of the late JAMES
WHICKAR, was born April 1, 1837; PETER, born October 28, 1838, resides
in Jackson Township; ELIZABETH, born January 15, 1841, wife of FRANK SPITZER,
of Montgomery County, Indiana; WILLIAM, born December 30, 1842; AMANDA,
born December 26, 1844, wife of DAVID REESE, of Montgomery County; ALICE,
born March 28, 1847, died in infancy, and MARIA J., born October 15, 1849,
is the wife of CHARLES TOLLIVER, of Nebraska.
In politics MR. WEAVER was formerly a Democrat, casting his first Presidential
vote for General Jackson, but for many years he has affiliated with the
Whig and Republican parties, and during his many year's residence in Tippecanoe
County, he has, by his fair and honorable dealings, gained the confidence
and respect of all who know him.
Link: Portraits of Patrick Henry and Alice Dimmitt Weaver
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