Biographical Sketch of Judge B. D. Weedin, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Judge B. D. Weedin, P. O. Lexington, Mo.  The subject of this sketch was
born in Glasgow, Kentucky, September 24, 1831.  His father, Caleb Weedin,
is of English, and his mother, Eliza S. Moore, of Welsh descent.  His
father was a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and died
near Danville, Kentucky, March 16, 1864.  Judge Weedin was raised prin-
cipally in Logan county, Ky., when he removed with his parents to 
Danville, Ky., where he was chiefly educated, graduating at Center 
College in 1853.  Immediately after leaving college, at the early age of
22, he was elected county surveyor, which office he resigned to move to
Missouri, which he did in 1855, and settled in this county, where he has
lived ever since.  He first located in Lexington, and soon after appoint-
ed dupty surveyor.  He served as deputy one year, was then appointed as
surveyor to fill a vacancy, and was then elected to fill unexpired term.
The war coming on, his office was vacated by the Gamble government.  In
1861 he volunteered for the M. S. G. for three months, and then joined
the confederate army, and was in the artillery service to the end of the
war.  He was in most of the principal battles: Lone Jack, Pine Bluff,
Jenkins Ferry, Prairie Grove, Little Rock, etc.  He was never wounded or
captured.  At the close of the war he returned to this county, and 
settled down on a farm, to being life anew.  In the fall of 1874 he was
elected by the Democracy as associate judge of the county court, but
resigned, with the whole bench, before his term expired, rather than levy
an obnoxious tax upon the people.  He continued upon his farm until 1880,
when he was again elected county surveyor on the Democratic ticket.  On
the 31st of August, 1865, he was married to Miss Martha A. Lankford, also
of this county.  This lady died January 19, 1879, having borne seven
children, three of whom are now living, two sons and one daughter.  Since
his wife's death, his sister, Miss Anna E. Weedin, has lived with him,
leaing her home in Kentucky for that purpose.  He is a member of the 
Cumberland Presbyterian church, and also a member of the Masonic order. 
His grandfather, Samuel S. Moore, was born at Louisville, Ky., when that
city was only a frontier fort.

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