Hardin County TN Archives Obituaries.....Weaver, William A. March 22, 1862
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Western College Reporter, April 1, 1862
Western College Reporter, April 1, 1862

Obituary-

William A. Weaver, aged 21 years, 10 months and 23 days, son of President S. 
Weaver of this place, and till called by his country a student at Western 
College, afterward a member of the 14th Regiment, Iowa Volunteers, on Saturday 
March 22nd was detached from the army of his country, to serve in that bright 
throng which surrounds his great Commander and King above.
In his death we lost a faithful student and valued friend, and our country one 
of its noblest defenders. When the call was made for men willing to risk their 
lives in defense of liberty, ever ready, he stepped boldly forward, though the 
sacrifice was great; he had much to bind him to home; his parents, brothers 
and sisters, all beloved he bid farewell, and with a true Christian’s 
patriotic heart, he went out to battle for the right. He was in the thickest 
of the fight at Ft. Donelson, and from that point pushed on to Savannah, 
Tennessee with his Regiment where he was taken sick, of Typhoid fever, and 
breathed his last in the hospital.
We have yet but few particulars of his last sickness and death, but feel 
confident from our knowledge of his character while with us that his end was 
that of the Christian, and that he is now where trouble and sorrow can never 
reach him, a bright spirit in glory.


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