OBIT: David Weaver, 1916, Adams County, PA

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David Weaver

David Weaver died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. R. Hartman, at the 
Hamilton Roller Mills, known as Hostetter’s mill, formerly Brown’s mill, five 
miles from New Oxford, at 9:45 o’clock last evening from paralysis.  The 
deceased had been in failing health since last November.  He was aged 84 years, 
8 months and 20 days.

The deceased was a son of Samuel Weaver.  In early life was the miller at the 
place where he died, later he was engaged in farming until the death of his wife 
who was Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, daughter of Solomon Jacobs, of Reading Township, 
48 years ago.  Then he followed carpentering for a number of years, retiring 
about 20 years ago.  He resided with his daughter, Mrs. H. T. Wehler, in New 
Oxford, for about 15 years, going to the Hartman home last February.

He is survived by seven children:  John Weaver, of Westminster; Solomon, of 
Wormleysburg; Miss Nancy Weaver, of East Berlin; Mrs. C. W. Warner, of Mt. 
Washington, Md.; Mrs. H. T. Wehler, of New Oxford; Mrs. John S. Ream, of 
Gardners, and Miss A. R. Hartman, of Hostetter’s mill.  There are also two 
brothers surviving, Edward Weaver, of Hanover Street, this place, and Christian 
Weaver, of East Berlin; also 26 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Funeral, Sunday, May 7th, brief services at the house at 1 p.m. further services 
and interment at the . . . . (remainder of obit was missing)

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, May 13, 1916

[An obit also appeared in the Adams County News, Saturday, May 6, 1916 giving 
the cemetery as the meeting house at Hampton.]