This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#264165) John Weaver <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=264165> AUTHOR: Judy Kelley, vo DATE: 1/31/2010 at 20:25:00 Surnames: WEAVER,STRETCH,VINCENT,SIPE,MESSICK John Weaver one of the best known residents of Letts, Iowa, and for more than two score years a prominent farmer of Muscatine county, passed away Tuesday morning at his home in Letts. His death was due to organic heart disease and followed an illness extending over a period of several months. His condition was not considered serious of late, however, and his sudden demise was very unexpected. The announcement of the death was received as a shock by those with whom he had been closely associationin late years. Mr. Weaver was born in Hampton county, pa.; February 18, 1828, and came to Muscatine county more than fifty years ago. He settled on a farm near Letts and remained there until nine years ago, when he removed to the town. Mr. Weaver was a survivor of the Civil war, having served four years during the struggle for secession. Mr. Weaver is survived by his wife, one son, Dr. A.J. Weaver, a prominent physician of Muscatine, and four daughters, Martha Stretch, of Oregon; Mrs. Homer Vincent, of Letts; Mrs. John Sipe, of Chicago, and Mrs. Fannie Messick, of Kansas. LCHS scrapbook