Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: John F. WEAVER

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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JOHN F. WEAVER -- was a son of Jacob and Margaret (DUNKLE) WEAVER,   
whose record has just been given, and he married Mollie E. FRAZIER, whose  
parents were John and Elizabeth (LUCAS) FRAZIER, whose record is also in 
the preceding sketch.  John F. WEAVER was born in Centre County,   
Pennsylvania, December 19, 1839, and his wife was born in Washington 
County, Maryland, July 10, 1841.  Their marriage was solemnized in  
Centre County, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1863, and their children were two: 
Edwin J., now in attendance at school in Concord, was born March 26, 1864;
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John F. WEAVER enlisted in Company E, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves, Federal  
army. He served twenty-two months, and then enlisted in Company F, 200th  
Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving nine months. He was engaged in many of  
the hard-fought battles of the war, among them: Merchanicsville, Gaines 
Mills, Charles City, Cross Roads, in which he was wounded in the shoulder  
and taken prisoner. He was confined in Libby prison about four weeks, then 
paroled and sent to Fortress Monroe, where he lay five weeks in the hospital.  
He was sent thence to Annapolis, Maryland, then to Alexandria, and then he 
rejoined his regiment, November 10, 1862. He was then in the battle of 
Fredericksburg, December 11-13, and was wounded in the right thigh.  He 
lay in Washington until he received discharge, February 22, 1863, from his 
first term of enlistment. During his second term of enlistment he was in 
the battle of Fort Stedman, and the charge on Petersburg April 2, 1865, and returned
home June 5, 1865.  He is a member of the Messiah Church and firmly holds to the 
doctrine taught in that church. His business is lumbering, his post office address
Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

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.