Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: D. W. WEAVER

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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D. W. WEAVER - is a native of the "Keystone State," born in Centre County, 
Pennsylvania, January 19, 1833.  His parents, Jacob and Margaret (DUNKLE) WEAVER,
were both born in that State and county, the former April 5, 1809, and the 
latter on the 31st of October, 1811. His mother died in July, 1857, and his 
father in 1862. The first wife of D. W. WEAVER was Margaret J. FRAZIER.  Their 
marriage was solemnized February 24, 1857, and she died May 16, 1865.  Their children
were two, both now living with their father: Mary E, born May 12, 1860; Ferdinand P.,
August 19, 1861.  In Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania, July 12,   
1866, D. W. WEAVER and Lucretia C. FRAZIER were joined in wedlock, and 
their children are four: Charles C., born May 10, 1867; William H., July  
24, 1871; Cora M., March 2, 1873; Maud, August 7, 1877.  Lucretia C., 
wife of Mr. WEAVER, was born in Washington County, Maryland, February 8, 1845, 
a daughter of John and Elizabeth (LUCAS) FRAZIER. Her father was born in Glasgow, 
Scotland, in 1802, her mother in Centre County, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1812,
and the former died in Snowshoe Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, in March 1861.
While the latter has made her home in Greenbrier County since 1876.   
April 4, 1874, D. W. WEAVER took up his residence in Greenbrier County, and in 
Ronceverte he is engaged in business as sawyer and carpenter. Ronceverte, Greenbrier
County, West Virginia, is his post office address.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.