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    1. [PABUCKS-L] Weaver
    2. Gordon Koerner
    3. > > > Would anyone have information on the Weaver family listed below. >Peter B. Weaver and Sarah NEE Derr Weaver. >Following is a letter I previously wrote, > I am suspecting they came from Bucks County. >Derr and Peter Weaver show up in 1850 Census, but not enough to tie them together. >Uriah Weaver married Hannah Elizabeth Wimmer. Her father's name was Reuban. The only Reuban that shows that could be her father is in Montgo. Co. >Most information I have gathered leads me to that County, but no proof.. Can anyone tie together?????? >>I am writing from Va. >> >> > > > > A couple of days I went to Allentown Library and looked thru 1850, 1860, > 1870 and 1880 census. there is not an 1890 for Lehigh. It may have been > burned in 1920 or destroyed in 1932. My Peter B. Weaver does not show up in > Upper Saucon Township of Lehigh Co. till after the 1850 census and can not > find him after the 1880 census.. He is on a 1873 land and tax map and in the > 1870 census it says his land value is 200 or 400 dollars, but I cannot find > him in the Grantor or Grantee land deed record books at the court house. > Seems he was not a church goer either. No Baptism or birth records.. I was > able to find out from the 1873 map that he lived on what is now called > Station Ave in Village of Spring Valley, Pa. Not to far from the still > existent Spring Valley Hotel.. Not too many old homes are standing and > certainly not his.. Where he lived, is less then a half mile from > Northampton Co. I was thru the Blue Church, Freidens Cemetery in Lehigh and > Apple Church and Ebenezer Reformed Ch! > > urch Cemetery in Bingen, Northampton, Co. His family is not buried in > those places.. He moved some where else or went back to where he came from. > Only my great grandfather shows up in Union Cemetery in Hellertown.. It > took all three census to account for all his children.. Here is what I know > for certain now, since I was able to put my great grandfather in Peter B.'s > house in 1870,, > > > > Peter B. Weaver b. 1815? 1860 a. 46; 1870 a. 55; 1880 a. 65 > > Sarah (Derr) b. 1820? """" a. 40; """" a. 50; """" a. > 60 > > Jacob b. 1842? a. 18 > > Isaac b. 1846? a. 14 > > Susanna b. 1847? a. 13 > > Mary b. 1850? a. 10 > > Charles b. 1853? a. 7 a.17 > a. 28 > > Eleanora b. 1855? a. 5 a.15 > > Elemina b. May 1850? a. 1/12 a. 10 a.25 > > Uriah b. 1864 a. 6 > > Sarah b. 1875 a. 5 > > > > > > Sarah, age 5 puts mother Sarah at age 55 when she was born? Also the census shows Elemina at home age 25, could it be Eleanora since age is 25. I know my great grandfather Uriah is correct since I have his death certificate. > > Would you have anything on these Weaver's???? > > > >

    08/14/2001 05:28:02