I copied several obituaries from the Southern Christian Advocate, including this one. I know the Weems family was originally Presbyterian so I wonder if a particularly good Methodist preacher held a revival in Abbeville around 1825. Elaine Oakes ANDREW J. WEEMS was born in Abbeville Districe, S.C., May 11, 1807, and died of nervous prostration in Bartow County, Ga., December 18, 1878. He embraced religion and joined the Methodist Church when he was eighteen years old, and spent the remainder of his life in its communion, filling various offices in it, and contributing freely in every way to the claims of the Church. He was three times happily married -- twice in South Carolina and once in Georgia. Each of the two former unions resulted in several children that have matured into useful men and women, one of them, Rev. David J. Weems, being an efficient member of the North Georgia Conference. In 1851 he moved from South Carolina to Georgia, where he lived and died. After his removal to Gerogia he lost his second wife; in 1864 he married his third wife, who survives him, and with whom he leaves five little children. Such a man, living so long and doing so much in the interest of the Church of God, should not be forgotten. With his large and promising posterity he has left an unsullied name -- a life beautifully consistent, closed by a triumphant, happy death. He was a warm and constant friend of the preacher, a life-long supporter of the institutions of the Church: the missionary and Conference claims had in him a ready and liberal contributor, the Church paper a constant subscriber and reader. While he would have willing lived, had the will of the Lord so indicated, he was quite ready to die. During his illness of more than eight weeks he manifested the highest type of Christian patience. Not unfrequently was his soul lifted above the sufferings of his emaciated body and made to rejoice in the power and presence of that grace which alone is able to comfort in such a trial. On the 13th day of December he died. W.F. ROBINSON