Howard-Wayne-Rush County IN Archives Biographies.....Weeks, Thomas B. 1843 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

THOMAS B. WEEKS.

    An enumeration of the representative citizen of Howard county, Indiana,
would be imcomplete without specific mention of the well known and popular
gentleman whose name introduces this sketch. A member of one of the old and
highly esteemed families of the eastern part of the state and for many years a
public-spirited man of affairs, he has stamped the impress of his individuality
upon the community and added luster to the honorable name which he bears, having
always been scrupulously honest in all his relations with his fellow men and
leaving no stone unturned whereby he might benefit his own condition as well as
that of his neighbors and friends, consequently he has long ago won the favor of
a great number of people of Jackson township where he maintains his home.

    Thomas B. Weeks was born in Dublin, Wayne county, Indiana, September 9,
1843, the son of Thomas and Lydia (Griffin) Weeks, both natives of North
Carolina. They were married before coming to Wayne county, Indiana. Thomas B.
Weeks was eight years old when his father died and seventeen when his mother
passed away. He went to live with B. J. Gentry, with whom he made his home for
many years, attending school and working on the farm in the meantime until he
secured a fairly good common school education, notwithstanding the fact that his
school days were more limited than other boys of his time, yet he was a close
student and took advantage of his opportunity.

    Mr. Weeks was united in marriage in 1866 to Martha A. Debored, who was born
in September, 1848, in Tennessee. Her parents were natives of Virginia, who came
to Tennessee and later to Henry county, Indiana. Mrs. Weeks first attended the
country schools and then the graded schools at Spiceland. They had nothing when
they were married and were compelled to borrow money on which to go to
housekeeping, but being industrious and thrifty they soon had a good start and
have always made a comfortable living at the same time laying by for their old
age which promises to be one of ease and pleasure to both. They lived eight
years in Rush county where they rented land and farmed. In 1874 they moved to
Howard county and purchased eighty acres, the east half of the southeast quarter
of section 35, township 24 north, range 6 east, for which they paid twelve
hundred dollars. The land was wet and was not well drained, but Mr. Weeks soon
had it well improved; it now has about fifteen hundred rods of drainage ditch,
and all the old buildings have been replaced by modern and substantial ones. The
place is very productive and is worth, conservatively estimated, one hundred and
twenty-five dollars per acre. The fact that he paid only forty-five dollars per
acre shows that Mr. Weeks has been a good manager and exercised rare soundness
of judgment in building up the place to a modern farm. He has looked well to the
rotation of crops, alternating his crops of corn and wheat with clover and
grass. His entire farm shows thrift and close attention and is equal in every
respect to any in Jackson township.

    Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Weeks, four of whom are living
in 1908. They are Emery O., Deborah May, Bertha J. and Thomas O. All are married
and none are living near their parents.

    Mr. and Mrs. Weeks are members of the Christian church at Jerome, having
first joined the Buck Creek church in Henry county, this state. Mr. Weeks is a
member of the Red Men's lodge at Greentown. In politics he is a Probitionist,
but at one time was a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Weeks are quiet unassuming
people, upright and pleasant in their home life, and they have the undivided
respect and friendship of all who know them.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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