Weeks family of Johnson County, IL

 From Portrait and Biographical Reviews of Johnson, Massac, Pope & 
Hardin Counties, Illinois.   
  
  Chicago Biographical Publications Co. 1893.
  Transcribed by Cindy Pegg
  
  James Weeks was born in 1827 in Pope County.  His parents died seven year 
  s later and he lived with an older brother. He married Harriet M. Walker  
  of Tennessee.  James and Harriet moved around alot before settling in Joh 
  nson County.  They started out in Pope County, IL then  moved to Kentucky 
   for three years and on to Missouri.  While living in Missouri, the farm  
  that they had purchased near the river bottoms was flooded destroying all 
   of their buildings and the land.  After being reduced to poverty  they m 
  oved to Tennessee where James again took up farming.  James managed to ov 
  ercome his losses and again moved his family to Massac County in Illinois 
   2E  The family remained in Massac County for three years then moved on t 
  o Johnson County where James became minister of the Baptist Church of Bel 
  knap.  James and Harriet had nine children: Mahala, wife of James Ramer;  
  Albert, James, Malcom and Newton all deceased; William Franklin; Elizabet 
  h, wife of John Vernon of Tennessee; Minnie, wife of William Stears of Bl 
  oomfield, MO. and James R. who died in Missouri.  William Franklin marrie 
  d Effie L. Redden of Pope County and had three children; Everet Guy (dece 
  ased), William V. and a child that died in infancy.  William became a pro 
  minent businessman in Belknap running a gentleman 92s clothing and furnis 
  hings establishment in Belknap.


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