Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Weaver, D. F. September 28 1838 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    D. F. WEAVER, who is now, and has been for the past twenty years,
postmaster, railroad and express agent, and proprietor of the cotton gin at
Weaver's Station, was born in Calhoun county, Ala., September 28, 1838. His
parents were Lindsey and Lucinda (Pace) Weaver. The father was a native of
Georgia, born in 1809 and came to Alabama in 1837, and settled in Calhoun
county. The paternal grandfather was a native of Virginia. Mrs. Lucinda Weaver
was a daughter of Richard and Annie (Hussey) Pace. The maternal grandfather came
to Alabama in 1837, and was one of the prominent Baptist ministers of the state.
D. F. Weaver was reared in Calhoun county, and attended school in the old log
school house, with a long hole cut in one side to give light and planks loosely
laid for the floor. At the age of twenty-one years he began life for himself. He
went to Jacksonville, Fla., and accepted a position as clerk for a Mr. Woodard,
one of the largest merchants of Jacksonville at that time, and remained with him
until 1861, when he-enlisted in the late war in company A, Second Alabama
infantry, under Capt. D. P. Forney, and served one year. This company was then
disbanded and organized into a company of cavalry under Gen. John T. Morgan, and
served until July 27, 1864, when Mr. Weaver had the misfortune to lose his left
foot in battle, while acting as orderly sergeant, which rendered him unfit for
further service. After the war he returned home and conducted the farm for his
mother, his father having died July 5, 1862. January 26, 1869, he married
Lucinda Snow, daughter of Dudley and Priscilla (Munger) Snow. Three children -
Robert E., David D., and Clementine L. - are the fruit of the union. The mother
was born in 1839, and both parents and children are members of the Baptist
church. Mr. Weaver joined the church when fourteen years of age and was clerk of
Mt. Zion eighteen years; and is now deacon of Weaver's Station church. He has
always been a democrat in politics, and as a business man is one of the most
upright and most active in the county.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 621-622

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