Biography of Samuel H. Weaver, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Samuel H. Weaver, a retired farmer of Hurricane Township, Franklin
County, was born to William and Mary (Smith) Weaver, in Jackson
County, Ala., February 2, 1825. The grandfather, William Weaver, a
native of Virginia, and a farmer all his life, first removed to
Carolina, thence to Tennessee, and afterward located in Alabama. He
was a Democrat in politics, and lived to be very old, dying in 1824.
The father of William Weaver, and the grandfather of Samuel H., was
born in Carolina in 1803; he was reared in Tennessee, was married in
1821, and settled on a farm in Jackson County, Ala., whence he removed
to Arkansas in 1848, locating in Jefferson County, where he followed
farming until his death in 1857. Mrs. Mary Weaver, mother of Samuel
H., was born in Virginia, and removed to Alabama with her parents in
1819; she died in 1833, leaving a family of five children, only two of
whom are now living: Samuel H. and Alexander. In 1838 Mr. Weaver
married a Mrs. Russell, who died in 1871. Mr. Weaver departed this
life in 1857. In 1846 Samuel H. Weaver enlisted in the Mexican army,
and served one year; he then returned to Alabama, where he located on
a farm. The following year he married Elizabeth Finney, who died
December 23, 1850, leaving two children: Mary E. (now the wife of
Richard M. Burgess) and James C. (a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South). In 1854 Mr. Weaver married Elander J. Floyd,
daughter of Rev. Enoch Floyd, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of
the four children born to this union, two are living: David N. and
Enoch R. Mrs. Elander Weaver died in 1862, and Mr. Weaver subsequently
married Jane Newberry, by whom he had two children: Isabella C. and
John R. Again losing his wife, who died at Ozark in 1869, Mr. Weaver
married Mrs. Martha Lane, nee Gibson, of Ozark, who died September 16,
1888. Mr. Weaver served as a captain of militia during the late war,
and in 1869 located in Franklin County; he lived in Ozark, and engaged
in farming until 1881, when he removed to his present farm. He has
been an active worker in the church [p.1283] since 1840, where he is
now class-leader. He owns a fine farm, and makes his home with his
children. Enoch R. Weaver, M. D., was born in Jackson County, Ala.,
March 26, 1860, and was educated at Ozark, Ark. He read medicine with
Dr. Smithers, and subsequently attended the Missouri Medical College,
at St. Louis, where he graduated in 1883. In November, 1883, he
married Eliza, daughter of Elias D. Turner, a prominent attorney of
the county, who served as lieutenant and captain in the late war. Mrs.
Eliza Weaver was born August 27, 1863, and is now the mother of three
children: Addie M., Elias N. and Minnie B. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Mr. Weaver is
also a member of the A. F. & A. M. He owns a well-improved farm of
eighty acres, and enjoys a large medical practice.