Monday, June 26, 2017

Ft Ancient on the Little Miami River - Weaver family History

Fort Ancient, on the Little Miami River was important in the travels and curious nature of the family in my experience ----now under new management in the 21st Century
http://www.fortancient.org/archaeology/history-of-fort-ancient-state-memorial-
--> In Warren County, Ohio, an isolated peninsula rises 80 meters (about 260 feet) above the muddy banks of the Little Miami River. There exists an immense monument to the dedication and technological savvy of the original inhabitants of prehistoric North America. This vast 51 hectare (about 126 acres) plateau is enclosed by embankment walls that stand 1.5 to 7 meters (about 5 to 23 feet) high, constructed by repeatedly dumping baskets loaded with soil upon one another. The Hopewell, known for their engineering expertise, built these walls and many other features both within the enclosure and on the steep valleys that surround the site: conical and crescent-shaped mounds, limestone pavements and circles, and many subsurface elements that are currently coming to light. Today, the Fort Ancient State Memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its importance to Ohio prehistory.--------Fort Ancient represents an embankment of ceremonial space rather than a fortress. Archaeological investigations have been nearly continuous at Fort Ancient since Moorehead, but the techniques used and the information gained have drastically changed how the site is viewed. In 2005, Dr. Jarrod Burks performed remote sensing, a method for detecting what is below the ground without actually digging, in areas that had not been previously excavated. These tests revealed a mysterious feature never seen before in Hopewell archaeology, a circular arrangement of posts nearly 60 meters (about 200 feet) in diameter. The Ohio Historical Society asked Dr. Robert Riordan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio to conduct an archaeological investigation in this newly discovered area with the help of his Field School in Archaeology. He began excavations in 2006 and has continued each summer since. At the center of this ring of posts, now referred to as the Moorehead Circle, there lays a shallow basin filled with presumably burned red clay. Currently, there are several research projects based on the work being done at the Moorehead Circle in hopes that we might gain insight into how it was used and, potentially, how Fort Ancient itself was used in prehistory.
On August 1st, 2009, the Dayton Society of Natural History (DSNH), parent organization of the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery and SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park, assumed management of the day-to-day operations at the Fort Ancient State Memorial. This partnership between the Ohio Historical Society and DSNH assures that Fort Ancient will remain a protected piece of American prehistory that is available for the public to enjoy.

Two Couples around 1913 overlooking the Little Miami from the Ft Ancient hill, second from left, Noah Elwood Weaver, and then his wife Edna Helena Eicher Weaver, with their son, Paul Henry Weaver (born Dec 24, 1910, West Carrollton OH) -
1928 view of Little Miami and bridge north of hill at Ft Ancient p4 NEWeaverSmallBlackAlbum now at Wright State U archives - Noah Elwood Weaver collection(curious where this is relative to I -71 that now passes to the north ---
1952 Weaver family picnie at Ft Ancient, 1952 visit with L- R Hanna Swearingen, Virginia Magee Weaver, Aunt Emma Esther Eicher, Tom Weaver, Paul H Weaver and Peg Glessner Weaver
L - R, Emma Esther Eicher, Noah Elwood Weaver, Tom Weaver, Paul Henry Weaver,  Peg Glessner Weaver
1959, Tom Weaver age 12 with butterfly net, Ft Ancient with Little Miami below by N Elwood Weaver
1973 Signage at Fort Ancient when visited with my parents at the time of Noah Elwood Weaver's funeral and burial in Wilmington Ohio with his second wife, Virginia Magee Weaver https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=160915858

Monday, June 19, 2017

Weaver Family in Minnesota - Paul Henry from Ohio 1938 - William Weaver from New York 1857 farming along the Mississippi


The Weaver family of my lineage arrived in Minnesota from Ohio in 1938 -  The town of Weaver, doubt if any relation, was named after a William K Weaver who came to Minnesota in 1857 from upstate New York , then a pioneer, as my line had been pioneers in Pennsylvania (1751), Enoch Weaver, coming from Germany  and then Jacob and Philip to Ohio (1803-07)
here is my father, Paul Henry Weaver at the front door of Swedish Hospital in the summer of 1938, where he did his internship having graduated from Ohio State University in June - 
  
"Pete" Paul H Weaver MD with his father, Noah Elwood Weaver who would drive up from West Carrollton Ohio to visit his only child  

View of downtown Minneapolis in 1938  with Foshay Tower the tallest building 
Trip Log Page 64, from Sunday July 17, 1938, in Peg Glessner Weaver' penmanship --

 1967 Photo of my dad, Paul H Weaver, at a sign for Weaver Minnesota, named for William K Weaver, whose bio I have found on find a grave and other Minnesota resources  ---I was asked by a Facebook Friend Rick G " Tom, is the Weaver sign part of your family history? Is it a town?

And what I found out, "
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Chapter 40
WATOPA TOWNSHIP
Pages 1261-1314
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Emnwabbio/graphics/wfbar.gif
From the book about Wabasha Co. Minnesota
"HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY"
Compiled by Dr. L. H. Bunnell
Published Chicago by H. H. Hill, Publishers, 1884
Republished Currently by Higginson Books



WEAVER VILLAGE
Weaver village was laid out in 1871. William Weaver and a man by the name of Dodge were the proprietors. The town was named after the former gentleman, and stands on sections 29 and 30 of Minneiska township.

In the summer of 1851 Andrew Olson emigrated to this section with his family, took a claim and erected a house, the first in this vicinity. Soon after two brothers, George and Christopher Abbott, and in 1857 William Weaver arrived from New York State and opened up a farm, on the north side of which a part of the town now stands. As soon as the village was laid out a postoffice was established, with W. H. Hopkins as postmaster. At present writing Weaver contains a store, hotel, butcher-shop, blacksmith-shop and two warehouses.

The store is a handsome brick block, 44 x 65 feet, and is owned by W. H. Hopkins, who keeps a stock of general merchandise and farm machinery. The hotel is a large brick structure, and was erected by William Weaver, at a cost of nine thousand dollars. In 1880 he sold out, and is at present engaged in farming near Casselton, Dakota. Mr. James White is now keeping the hotel. The warehouses are in charge of Brooks Bros., of Minneiska, well known throughout the state as dealers in wheat and lumber. The present school was built in 1872, and answers the double purpose of school-house and church, the Methodists and Norwegian Lutherans, alternating in their services. The population of Weaver is now about one hundred.

Michael Callohan (not in book's index), telegraph operator, Weaver, was born at Sandy Creek, New York, in 1858. His parents, John and Mary Callohan, were natives of Ireland, and emigrated to America in 1837, settling where our subject was born. When a young man he tried living in several towns, among which were Rochester, in New York, and Niagara Falls, but finally concluded to visit St. Paul, which he did in 1880. Liking the west so well led him to locate in Winona for a year, and again he moved, this time to Weaver, where he now resides, being in the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, as agent and operator. Mr. Callohan is a member of the Catholic church, and also of the Winona State Military Guards. He married Eliza Hitchcock, of Weaver. They have one child, Mary Agnes.

Republished Currently by Higginson Books
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And as a member of find a grave ---I found this about William K Weaver 
https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25494765 
William K Weaver
Birth: 

Dec. 1, 1830
Fredonia
Chautauqua County
New York, USA
Death: Aug. 3, 1913
San Francisco
San Francisco County
California, USA

"Casa Grande Times" Published August 15, 1913; Vol. II-No. 31 - Respected Citizen of Valley and Sterling Pioneer, Dies in San Francisco - William Weaver, one of Casa Grande's most respected citizens and an old timer in this section, passed away in San Francisco at 4 a.m. Monday morning, August 4, [1913]. Mr. Weaver went to San Francisco a short time ago in search of medical assistance in curing a cancer which had been bothering him for several years, but as usual it was impossible to find a cure.

He was born near Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York, on December 1, 1830 and was married to Lucretia Putman, July 3, 1857. Throughout life William Weaver was a strong, fearless man who possessed many sterling qualities. He lived in many states of the union and wherever he had lived he made his personality felt and had been active in the upbuilding of the communities.

Early in his life he moved from the place of his birth to a place in Southern Minnesota and did so much toward the upbuilding of the town that a grateful people named the town after him [Weaver, Minn., near Plainville]. At Weaver, Minn. he was engaged in the hotel and livery business. The brick hotel which he built at Weaver still stands. From Minnesota, Mr. Weaver moved to North Dakota and for eighteen years operated one of the largest farms in the great northwest, this farm containing over 4,000 acres.

While on this farm he went into the breeding of buffalo on a large scale and in addition to a great number of pure-blooded buffalo he raised hundreds of half-breed buffalo. During a San Francisco Exposition, he took his entire herd of buffalo to the exposition and spent a fall and winter there. The following spring he sold the herd and many of them are still to be found in the Golden Gate Park at San Francisco.

It was while in San Francisco that he first became interested in Arizona. Meeting Peralto Reevis, who is well known to all who have lived in the Gila Valley, he was induced to come to Arizona and contracted with Reevis for a large body of land in what is now the Casa Grande Valley, with the view of colonizing the same. Going back to North Dakota as soon as he made his contract with Reevis, he sold his entire holdings and in the year 1894 returned to Casa Grande. He brought with him besides other stock, ten head of famous Poliangus cattle and there can now be found in the valley hundreds of these fine cattle.

During the last few years, although feeble in health and greatly troubled with deafness, he still displayed courage and earnestly and honestly did everything he could for the betterment of Casa Grande.

The remains were brought to Casa Grande Friday morning on Train No. 10 and were laid away at Arizola at 11 a.m., the same day, nearly every man, woman and child in Casa Grande accompanying him on his last journey from Casa Grande to Arizola.

He leaves to mourn his loss two sons, Fred Weaver of Colton, California and Walter E. Weaver of Hayden; two daughters, Mrs. R. F. [Addie] Phillips of Casa Grande and Mrs. James Maloney of Fargo, S.D., and a host of friends throughout the country.
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Parent links provided by: Jonathan Laing
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Family links:
 Parents:
  Caleb Weaver (1800 - 1855)
  Matilda Matteson Weaver (1806 - 1889)

 Spouse:
  Lucretia Putnam Weaver (1832 - 1923)

 Children:
  Medora Adeline Weaver Phillips (1860 - 1934)*
  Walter Earl Weaver (1876 - 1916)*

 Siblings:
  Silas M. Weaver (____ - 1841)*
  Ruth M Weaver Steward (1825 - 1875)*
  Walter Smith Weaver (1827 - 1899)*
  Orrin Weaver (1829 - 1866)*
  William K Weaver (1830 - 1913)
  David Matteson Weaver (1832 - 1920)*
  Daniel Sharp Weaver (1834 - 1912)*
  Electa Ann Weaver Blydenburgh (1836 - 1918)*
  Cynthia A Weaver Newton (1841 - 1932)*
  Silas Matteson Weaver (1843 - 1923)*
  Alvah A. Weaver (1849 - 1916)*

*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Weaver Pioneer Cemetery
Casa Grande
Pinal County
Arizona, USA
Plot: Grave #35

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Created by: Diane & John
Record added: Mar 24, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 25494765