Shelby County Indiana Genealogy and History - Obituaries

Shelby County Indiana
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Weaver

The Shelbyville News
Monday, March 03, 2003
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Donald Weaver, 78, of Shelbyville, died Saturday, March 1, 2003.
Born June 8, 1924, in Shelby County, s/o Alonzo and Luphama (DeBaun) Weaver. Married Edna Keppel on July 20, 1941, and she survives.
Other survivors include one son, Larry Weaver of Portland, Tenn.; three daughters, Linda Koch, Karen Cox and Penny Harris, all of Shelbyville; one brother, Dillard Weaver of Florida; and one sister, Mary Wilkinson of Shelbyville; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by one daughter, four brothers and three sisters.
Rretired from Shelby County Sheriff's Department, where he had been a dispatcher.
Glenn E. George & Son Funeral Home, 437 Amos Road, is handling the arrangements.
Summarized by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The Shelbyville News
Unknown date, death date about 1995
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William Weaver
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Shelby County native, William Weaver, 76, died Monday, Indianapolis.
Born May 11, 1919, to Omer and Anna (DeBaun) Weaver. Married to Myrtle Ann Pitcher, who preceded in death in January 1974.
Lived in Shelbyville and Indianapolis. Former resident of Scottsville, Ky., where he lived from 1976 to 1990 after retireing as a home builder.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Disabled American Veterans.
Survivors are: two daughters, Carol Hood, Waldron and Debbie Spicer, Nineveh; two sons, Danny Weaver and Doug Weaver, both of Indianapolis; a brother, Ora Weaver, Shelbyville; and eight grandchildren. Two sisters and a brother preceded him in death.
Carmony-Ewing Harrison Street Funeral Home. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Greenwood. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Contributed by Melinda Moore Weaver
Summarized by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The Shelbyville News
Saturday, Dec. 30, 1989
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---Rachel Weaver ---
Rachel Weaver, 83, lifetime Shelby county resident, died Friday at Major Hospital.
D/o Alonzo and Luphama (DeBaun) Weaver, born Nov. 6, 1906 in Shelby County.
Surviving are sisters, Mary Wilkinson and Lucy Bausback, both of Shelbyville; and brothers, Willard Weaver, Harbinger, NC., Dillard Weaver, Westport, and Donald Weaver, Shelbyville.
Carmony-Ewing Harrison Street Funeral Home, 819 S. Harrison St. The Rev. James Horner will officiate. Burial in Snyder Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.
Contributed by Melinda Moore Weaver
Summarized by Phyllis Miller Fleming
[Rachel Weaver, born Nov. 6, 1906 in Shelby County, Indiana, died Dec. 29, 1989 in Shelby County, Indiana and was buried in Snyder Cemetery, Shelby County, Indiana. She never married. - MW]

The St. Petersburg Times
Staff Writer, Dorothy Evans
death date 23 Aug 1985
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Gladys Rose Weaver, who lived 72 years in the United States before becoming a citizen last February, died Friday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, Yakima, Wash., where she was visiting. She was 81 years old.
          Mrs. Weaver found out she was not an American citizen when she applied for a passport two years ago to visit friends in England. She had no documents to prove she had spent most of her life in America. Her father, Richard Henry Rouse, was coming to America in April 1912 to start a new life. He never made it because he was on the Titanic, the 'unsinkable' liner that struck an iceberg and went down in the North Atlantic.
          Mrs. Weaver and her mother decided to come to America to come to America anyway from their native England. They went through customs at Ellis Island on June 12, 1912. These records were proof to verify her arrival to the country.
          In 1922, she married Clarence Weaver and moved to a farm in Indiana. She later found out that if they had married eight days earlier, she automatically would have been a citizen. But the law was changed that year.
          Mrs. Weaver finally took her oath of allegiance and was granted U.S. citizenship on Feb. 14, 1985. She came here in 1965 from Shelbyville, Indiana. She lived at 839 Bay Point Dr., Madeira Beach.
          Survivors include two sons, Clarence A., El Paso, Texas and Harold, Boggstown, Ind.; three daughters, Delores Kuhn, Fort Lauderdale, Mary Elizabeth Chamberlain, Decatur, Ark., and Barbara Moon, Franklin, Ind.; 24 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
          Friends may call after 4 P.M. Monday at the Ewing Mortuary, Shelbyville, where a funeral service will be 10:30 A.M. Tuesday with Rev. Robert Campbell officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville.
          The family suggests memorial contributions may be made to the Statue of Liberty Foundation (Restoration Fund), Dept. A. F., 101 Park Ave., New York City, NY, 10178.
Submitted, with notes, by Melinda Moore Weaver
*Some information for this story came from a St. Petersburg Times story by Mark M. Nelson.
**Personal note -- Gladys was going to England to see where she had lived as a young girl and to see what the town looked like. She had last seen Sittingbourne, England when she was 9 yrs old. She was not going to see friends.

The Shelbyville News
Tuesday, July 14, 1981
--WEAVER--
Services for Michael O. Weaver, 32.
Murphy Mortuary.
Body was found shortly after 4pm Monday in a wooded area at the rear of Standard Oil Fertilizer Co., 312 W. McKay Rd. Mr. Weaver committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree per Cororner Lee Fisher.
Born Jan. 14, 1949 in Shelbyville, s/o Ora and Alta (Allen) Weaver, both of whom survive here.
Survived by three sons and a daughter; a grandfather, Everett Allen, Indianapolis; a brother, Mark Weaver, Shelbyville and four sisters, Mrs. Donna Chappelow, Shelbyville, Mrs. Rhonda Brown, Boggstown, Mrs. Sharon Dover, Columbus and Mrs. Marcia Newton, Eunice, NM.
Operated Mike's Body Shop.
Member of the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1973, Vietnam and West Germany.
The Rev. James Horner will officiate at 10:30am Thursday service.
Burial in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Contributed by Melinda Moore Weaver
Summarized by Phyllis Miller Fleming

A Central Indiana Newspaper
1955
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MARY ADELINE TUCKER
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Mary Adeline "Addie" Tucker, daughter of John and Mary Dake Tucker, was born March 13, 1871 and died October 2, 1955. Her first marriage was to Chester Huffman who was born July 12, 1870 and died March 24, 1905. Addie and Chester had one son, Ora. On January 2, 1907, she was married to Frank Weaver who was born in Johnson County May 15, 1870 and died October 21, 1955, nineteen days after his wife. Addie is buried by her first husband, Chester Huffman, in the London Cemetery. Frank Weaver is buried by his first wife, Rose Olive, in the London Cemetery.

Ibid.
1955
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DEATH CLAIMS MRS WEAVER -
NINE-MONTH ILLNESS FATAL
TO LONDON WOMAN
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Mrs. Mary A. Weaver, 84, succumbed at her home in London Sunday morning at 8:30 AM following an illness of nine months. A resident of London the greater part of her life, she was a native of Moral Township. Her parents were John and Mary Dake Tucker and she was born March 13, 1871. Her first marriage was to Chester Huffman who preceded in death. On January 2, 1907, she was married to Frank Weaver who survives. Also surviving are a son, Ora Huffman, Mount Shasta, Cal; two step - children, Mrs. Doris Knight and Paul Weaver of Richmond; two grandchildren; one step - grandchild; four great - grandchildren; three step - great - grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Nelle Robinson of Colorado Springs, Colo. Mrs. Weaver was a member of the London Methodist Church, the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the church, the Kum-Join-Us Class and the O.N.T. Club. Funeral services, in charge of the Sleeth Funeral Home, will be held at the London Methodist Church Tuesday at 2 PM (DST), with Rev. Clara May Rippel officiating. Burial will be in the London Cemetery. Friends may call at the late residence. Contributed by Marlena Linne

A Shelby County Newspaper
1950 or 1951
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MISS WEAVER DIES IN HOSPITAL
RETIRED TEACHER'S RITES WILL
BE HELD WEDNESDAY
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Miss Ollie Weaver, retired city and county school teacher, died at the W. S. Major Hospital at 7:15 this morning. She had been in failing health for two years and was hospitalized one week. Her home was at 39 West Washington Street. Miss Weaver, who taught in five of the county schools as well as Pleasant View and Shelbyville, was 77 years of age and retired eight years ago. She was born in Johnson County on September 13, 1873, the daughter of Horace and Lucy McCaslin Weaver and came to Shelby County when eight years of age. She had resided in this city since 1915 and was a member of the First Baptist Church and the local Order of Eastern Star. She is survived by one brother and two sisters, Frank Weaver of London, Mrs. Allie Schloesser of Moral Township and Mrs. Bertha Hasler of Fairland. Also surviving are several nieces and nephews. Funeral services ill be held Wednesday at 2 PM at the Ewing Mortuary. Reverend N. I. Schoolfield will officiate. Burial will be in the London Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 1:30 PM Tuesday.
Contributed by Marlena Linne

A Shelby County Newspaper
[Death date about 1948]
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ALONZO WEAVER DIES IN HOSPITAL
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Rites for Lifelong County Resident Will be Friday
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Alonzo Weaver, 67, farmer and lifelong resident of Shelby County, died at the W.S. Major Hospital Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Weaver, who resided on the Boggstown road, had been ill for the past month and hospitalized for three weeks. He was born in Hendricks township on December 28, 1882, the son of Alonzo and Elizabeth (Yarber) Weaver.
          On December 23, 1901, he was married to Luphama DeBaun. She survives with nine of 11 children born to this union. The children are: Clarence Weaver, Mrs. Mary Wilkinson and Donald Weaver of rural route 3; Mrs. Lula Hiatt, rural route 5; Miss Rachel Weaver at home; Garnet of near Scottsburg; Willard serving the Coast Guard in Norfolk, VA.; Mrs. Lucy Bausback, rural route 4, and Dillard of near Seymour. Also surviving are 23 grand children, one great-grandchild, one sister and one brother, Mrs. Mamie Werner of Smithland and Omer Weaver of this city.
          Funeral services will be held at the Ewing Mortuary Friday at 2:00 PM with Rev. N.I. Schoolfield officiating. Burial will be in the Snyder cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 2:00 PM Thursday.
Contributed by Melinda Moore Weaver

The Shelbyville Republican
December 27, 1945
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Frank Weaver Dies Suddenly
Heart Failure Fatal to Waldron Man
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Frank E. Weaver, age fifty-six, died suddenly Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. while being seated at the table for a Christmas dinner at his home in Waldron. He had been in failing health since last June but his condition was thought to have been improved. His death, caused by heart failure was unexpected.
Mr. Weaver had been employed as a welding engineer at the Chambers Corporation here for the past 12 years. He was born in Kentucky on July 30, 1889, the son of Rollen and Jane Browning Weaver. He moved to Shelbyville in 1923 and had resided in Waldron for the past few years.
On January 10, 1912, he was married to Miss Anna Parson, of Clinton, Ia. She survives with five children born to the union, Roland, who is stationed in Alaska with the U.S. Coast Guard; Frank and Eugene Weaver and Mrs. Martin Beyer and Mrs. Floyd Rutherford, all of Waldron. Also surviving is the aged father and step-mother, Mrs. Ada Weaver, of this city; four brothers, Jesse, Robert and Pierce Weaver, of this city, and Marcus, of Madison; one half-brother, Harry Weaver, of Shelbyville; three half-sisters, Ada and Mary Weaver, of this city, and Mrs. Vada Duell, of Indianapolis, and five grandchildren.
Mr. Weaver served with the U.S. Army on the Mexican border in 1911. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Vevay and also was a member of the Shelbyville Eagles lodge. Members of the lodge will serve as pallbearers and also will conduct services at the grave.
Funeral rites will be held Friday at 10:00 a.m. at the Loren H. Murphy home with Rev. Josephine B. Huffer officiating. Burial will be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1:00 p.m. today.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The Shelbyville Republican
Thursday, March 23, 1939
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BOY FALLS INTO
HOT WATER, DIES
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Infant Son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Weaver, Scalded in
Fall Into Pan of Water,
Dies Here.
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RITES ARE ARRANGED
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Bereaved Relatives Make
Arrangements fro Funeral
Services -- Death Occurs at
Hospital -- Falls Into Pan as Mother
Goes to Pump, Outside Home.
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Bereaved relatives today made funeral arrangements for little Loren D. Weaver, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Weaver who died at 7:00 o'clock last night of burns received when he fell into a pan of scalding hot water at the home of his parents at the south edge of the city.
The mother had placed the water pan on the floor, while the boy was in another part of the house, at about 11:00 o'clock Thursday morning and had then gone outside to get some cold water from a pump in the backyard. As she was returning, the boy fell into the hot water pan.
He was taken to the Major hospital, and after receiving treatment there and showing apparent improvement, he was returned to the parents' home Friday morning. His death occurred there. He was born June 14, 1936.
The funeral services will be held at the residence, a short distance west of the south end of Meridian street, at 2:30 p.m. Monday. The Rev. Ernest L. Ford, pastor of the First Christian church, will officiate. Burial will be made at Forest Hill cemetery in charge of Morris H. Sleeth, funeral director.
Survivors, besides the parents, are a younger brother, Leon; a half-sister, Mrs. Louella Helms, of near Lewis Creek; two half-brothers, Thomas Weaver, at home, and Jesse Weaver, Jr., of Shelby township, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Weaver, of Shelbyville.
Friends may call at the residence after 5:00 p.m. today.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The Shelbyville Republican
Monday, April 20, 1936
Page 1 column 8
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FUNERAL HELD FOR C. WEAVER
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Local Resident Dies at
Hospital Saturday Following Operation
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Cecil 0. Weaver, 41 years old, died at the Major hospital at 12:20 o'clock Saturday afternoon following an appendicitis operation. He had been ill five weeks. Mr. Weaver had lived at 862 South Tompkins street until he was taken to the hospital. He was born in Moral township February 19, 1895, the son of Frank and Ollie Weaver. His whole life had been spent in Shelby county and he had been a resident of Shelbyville for the past sixteen years. On November 27, 1926 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Bertha Walker, who survives. Other survivors are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weaver of London, Ind., one brother and one sister, Paul Weaver of Waldron and Mrs. Claude Knight of Richmond; two step-children, Doris and Marian Walker at home; one niece, Miss Rosalind Smith of Richmond and several aunts and uncles. The deceased was a member of the Fairiand Baptist church and was engaged in the dry cleaning business in this community. Funeral services were held at the home of his parents in London this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with the Rev. Archie Shirley officiating. Interment was in the London cemetery in charge of C.F. Fix and Son, funeral directors.
Submitted by Barb Huff

The Shelbyville Republican
Monday, September 30, 1935
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BODY IS FOUND IN AUTOMOBILE
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Alonzo Weaver Disappeared Sept. 12, is Found in Woods
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The body of Alonzo Weaver, Jr., 25 years old, a farmer living on the Boggstown road, three miles from Shelbyville, was found in his automobile in a woods on the Hugh McFadden farm, a mile south of London, Sunday. Dr. W.R. Tindall, county coroner, said that the youth apparently had ended his own life by carbon-monoxide gas poisoning. A hose was attached to the exhaust of the car and the deadly gasses were piped into the interior of the car. The discovery of the body was made by George Imel, who had gone into the woods to hunt pawpaws. Mr. Imel notified the authorites. Weaver, according to an investigation made by the coroner, left the home of his father-in-law, Leo Wendell, on the Boggstown road, on the night of Sept. 12. His wife, Leona, whom he married June 9, 1934, thought it was possible that he had gone to visit relatives in California. Mr. Weaver was born in Addison township, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Weaver, Sr. He was a farmer and had lived in the county all of his life. Survivors, beside the wife and parents, are four sisters, Mrs. Lulu Hiatt and the Misses Lucy, Mary and Rachel Weaver, and five brothers, Clarence, Willard, Donald, and Garnet Weaver. Funeral services were held at the chapel of Charles M. Ewing, undertaker, to whom establishment the body was taken after it was found, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The Rev. Josephine Huffer, pastor of the Trinity M.E. church, officiated. Burial was in the Snyder cemetery.
Contributed by Melinda Moore Weaver
[Funeral notice gives D.O.B. as 10/18/1910. MW]

The Kokomo Tribune
September 30, 1935
Page 12
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Shelbyville, Ind., Sept. 30----Coroner W. R. Tyndall said Alonzo Weaver, 24, found dead in his automobile in a woods on a farm south of London, apparently committed suicide by asphyxiation. Mrs. Leane Weaver, widow of the young farmer, could assign no motive for the act.
Contributed by Janet McColley Franklin

The Shelbyville Republican
Friday April 6, 1917
Page 1 column 6
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MRS. MARTHA J. WEAVER
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Former Franklin County Woman
Died At Daughter's Home Here
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Mrs. Martha J. [DeBaun][Green] Weaver, 88 years old, widow of John W. Weaver, died at 7:00 o'clock Thursday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Herron, 14 South Hamilton. She had been confined to her bed for the past three weeks.
She was born March 15, 1829, in Franklin county. Her husband died last August in Hope, and the following month she moved here. She leaves two children by a former marriage, Mrs. Herron and James Green, of Richland, Indiana, two sisters, Mrs. Mary DeBaun and Mrs. [Melvina] Merle Limpus, both of Washington township, and one brother J. G. DeBaun, of Green county.
She was a member of the Hope Methodist church. The funeral services will be held at ten o'clock Sunday morning at the Winchester M.E. church south of here. Rev. E. R. Lewis, of this city will officiate. Burial will be made in the Winchester cemetery
Contributed by Barb Huff for Christine Moore

The Shelbyville Republican
Friday, Jan. 29, 1904
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          Warren Weaver died at the residence of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, of lung trouble. Buried in Snyder Cemetery.
Contributed by Melinda Moore Weaver

The Shelbyville Democrat
Thursday, September 17, 1903
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Claude Weaver died at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Vice, two and one-half miles west of this city at 2:30 PM, Saturday, September 12, 1903, at the age of twenty years, ten months and twenty-three days. Funeral services will be held in the Bethel church, Noble township, at 10:30 today. Interment in the Copeland cemetery. Rev. Randall officiated. M.G. Tindall, funeral director.
[Claude is thought to be the son of Alonzo M. Weaver and Nancy Elizabeth Yarber Weaver Thompson. MW]
Contributed by Melinda Moore Weaver

The Shelbyville Republican
Tuesday, September 15, 1903
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Claude Weaver died at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Vue, two and one-half miles west of this city at 2:30 PM, Saturday, September 12, 1903, at the age of twenty years, ten months and twenty-three days. Funeral services will be held in the Bethel church, Noble township, at 10:30 today. Interment in the Copeland cemetery. Rev. Randolph officiating. M.G. Tindall, funeral director.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

A Shelbyville Newspaper
On or after 3 Jul 1901
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KILLED -- Lon Weaver Struck by Lightning Last Week in the Harvest Field --
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Mr. Lon Weaver, residing on the Jaco farm, about two miles east of the city, now owned by Attorney John A. Tindall, was killed by lightning Wednesday evening about 5:30 o'clock, while shocking wheat. His son, Orin, was driving the binder and when the thunder came, his horses became badly scared and tried to run away, but he finally got them under control and looking around saw his father lying on the ground, where he was in the act of picking up a bundle of wheat when the lightning struck him. A small son of Mr. Weaver was within two rods of him at the time and was knocked down onto his knees but he was soon up again, not being injured.
          The lightning cut a hole in Mr. Weaver's head, the size of a bullet, near the center of his forehead, and it presented very much the appearance of a bullet wound, but of course, was only another one of the freaks of lightning. The marks on his forehead were the only marks upon his body, no bones were broken and there were no abrasions of the skin. His clothing was intact, except his hat, out of the front of which a good sized piece was cut.
          Mr. Weaver was in his forty-ninth year, and leaves a widow and five children. He was a peaceable and good citizen.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS
          Alonzo [M.] Weaver, who was killed by lightning last week, was 48 years of age, leaves a wife and five children; four sons and one daughter. Interment will take place in the Snyder graveyard at 10AM Friday July 5, 1901. Cortege will leave the house at 8 AM in charge of Marshall G. Tindall.
Contributed by Melinda Moore Weaver

The Shelby Democrat
Thursday, March 15, 1900
Page 8, column 2
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William G. Weaver died at his home two miles southwest of Fairland in Sugar Creek township, at 3:30 o'clock a.m., Thursday March 8th, of Brights disease, age seventy-nine years. Mr. Weaver was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, where he lived until 1868, from which State he moved to Shelby county, and bought the farm on which he died. He was one of the prominent and successful farmers of the county, honored and respected by all who knew him. He was a member of the Lutheran church. He leaves a wife and son and two daughters. His funeral services were held at two o'clock p.m., today (Friday) 9th. Interment will be in the Fairland cemetery. Funeral in charge of Edwards & Hageman.
Submitted by Barb Huff

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