OBIT: Anna WEAVER, 1930, West Manchester Twp., York County, PA

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MRS. ANNA WEAVER

Mrs. Anna M. Weaver, widow of Samuel R. Weaver, and mother of Mayor Jacob C. 
Weaver, died Saturday at the home of Mrs. W. S. Myers, in West Manchester 
township, where she resided.  Death was caused by infirmities of age.  She was 
90 years old.  She was the eldest daughter of the Rev. Jacob and Anna Mary 
Ziegler.  She resided with her parents in Bedford county until 1850 when the 
Rev. Mr. Ziegler was transferred to Gettysburg, where she lived until 1865.  
During the battle of Gettysburg, she, with the members of her family lived in a 
cellar for three days.  During the battle, with bullets flying about, she walked 
a distance of two blocks to obtain yeast to be used for baking bread for the 
Union soldiers.  After the battle she assisted in cleaning up the Catholic 
church, near the home of her parents, which was used as a temporary hospital for 
the wounded.  She was a schoolmate of Jenny Wade.

In 1865 her father moved to York and assumed the pastorate that included the 
Holtzschwam church, Salem Union church and Wolf's.  In 1867 she married Samuel 
R. Weaver, of York, and resided there the remainder of her life.  In the spring 
of 1929 Mrs. Weaver fell and broke a hip, and had not fully recovered from the 
effects of this accident when complications developed which caused her death.  
She is survived by four sons.  Mrs. T. C. Bilheimer, Gettysburg, is a sister.

News Comet, East Berlin, PA, October 17, 1930