Biographical Sketch of Albert T. Weir, Greene County, Missouri, Boone 
Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Weir is a native of St. Clair County, Missouri, born December 29,
1848.  He was educated in the common schools, remaining in the county
of his birth till the civil war.  His father was Samuel and his mother
Lettie (Compton) Weir, the latter having died in 1862.  Early in the
war, Mr. Weir was burned out by a marauding party from Kansas, and in
the fall of 1861, the youthful Albert, then but thirteen years old,
enlisted in the Confederate Service and fought till the surrender at
Shreveport, in June, 1865, having participated in many hotly contested
battles.  He was on Shelby's raid through Missouri, and was three weeks
in the saddle day and night.  At the close of the war, Mr. Weir spent
eight months in Tennessee, and returned thence to Callaway County, Mo.
In 1869, he came to Greene County, where he engaged in blacksmithing 
for five years.  He then purchased a farm in Boone Township and has 
ever since followed the vocation of a farmer.  He now owns two good
farms, one containing 160 acres, and the other 100 acres.  Mr. Weir 
was married December 16, 1869, to Miss Laura J., daughter of ex-Senator
Frank T. Frazier, of Greene County.  They have a family of three girls
and two boys.  Mr. Weir is at present a popular salesman in the dry
goods house of Wilkerson & McCray, though he resides just north of Ash
Grove.  He is a Freemason of good standing, and belongs to lodge number
436, A. F. & A. M., at Walnut Grove.

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