Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Weldon, John 1837 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

John Weldon, farmer, P. O. Verona. The subject of this sketch is a son of John 
and Bridget (Mede) Weldon, formerly of Ireland, who emigrated to the United 
States in 1832 and settled in New York, where subject was born November 18, 
1837. When he was six years old (in 1843), his parents moved to Illinois and 
settled in Will County, where they remained, engaged in farming, until 1849. 
They then moved to Grundy County and bought land in Vienna Township. Subject 
enlisted, August 4, 1861, in Company I, Fifty-fifth Illinois Volunteer 
Infantry, in which he served three years, and was discharged at Nashville, 
Tenn., November 1,1864. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, siege of 
Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Tenn., battle of Nashville, and others; was taken 
prisoner at or near Memphis by Richardson's guerrillas, from whom he escaped 
three days after, and returned to his regiment. His brother, Lieut. James 
Weldon, of Company H, Fifty-fifth Regiment, was killed in the battle of 
Shiloh. Thomas Weldon, another brother, was a member of the One Hundred and 
Twenty-seventh Illinois Regiment, in which he served three years; wounded. 
After returning, Mr. Weldon was married, October 11, 1865, to Miss Ellen 
Slattery, daughter of William Slattery, of Ireland. She was born in County 
Tipperary, in December, 1841, and came to the United States in 1853. Their 
family consists of seven children, three of whom are dead - Dora E., born 
September 26, 1868; William J., born January 30, 1872; Eveleen M., born 
February 23, 1876; and Clara A., born April 26, 1879. They own a farm of 268 
acres of improved land in Sections 33 and 27 of Vienna Township, valued at $50 
per acre, their residence being two miles southwest of Verona. They are 
members of the Catholic Church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and, 
in politics, is a National Greenbacker.

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Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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