This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Weber, Lathrop, Crandall, Norton, Norris, Graham, Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XEC.2ACE/1687 Message Board Post: From the May 24, 1879 issue of the Adams County Press WEBER.--In Delton, Sauk county, May 16th 1879, Peter S. Weber, aged 74 years, 2 months and 8 days. Mr. Weber was born in Peterborough, Madison county, New York, on the 8th of March, 1805. In 1826 he married Ruth A. Lathrop, by whom he had one child, now living, now Mrs. Samuel Crandall of Nile, N.Y. In 1828 his wife died, and six years after he married Maria A. Norton of Peterborough. Soon after this marriage he removed to Friendship, Allegany county, New York, where he resided until the Spring of 1858, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled here in Friendship, where he resided until the spring of 1867. The family circle after coming here, was soon sadly broken. In 1860 a daughter, Elizabeth, a young lady of rare graces of mind and person, and greatly beloved by a large cirlce of friends, died. The next year, Ellen, another daughter of twelve years, died; and a week later the sorrowing mother, worn with watching by the bedside of her loved ones, followed her little daughter over into the Beautiful Land. The war called two of the sons, Dwight N. and Edwin H. to the service of the country, and though both came safely through, the severed household was never again to be united. At the end of his military service Dwight went to Montana, and E. H. Weber went into business in the Northwestern part of this state. From the death of his wife to the spring of 1867, Mr. Weber resided here in Friendship, his household the greater part of time consisting of two daughters, Flora and Mary, and his youngest son, John. In the spring of that year he disposed of his property here, and afterwards made his home with his children, a part of the time at first with his son E. H. Weber, of Dunn county, but afterwards and most of the time with is daughter Mrs. Edward Norris, of Delton, at whose residence he died. Mr. Weber died of the disease usually called softening of the brain; and, as is the case always with that disease, it seriously impaired his mental faculties. Always kindly and forbearing in his family, as the dark clouds settled upon his mind he seemed to grow more affectionate, and cling more closely and lovingly to his friends. Mr. Weber was a good man in all the relations in life--an affectionate husband, a kind and wise father, an upright and respected citizen, a good neighbor and a firm friend. Mr. Weber was the father of twelve children, two of whom died in infancy, and eight of whom survive him. They are Mrs. S. Crandall, of Nile, New York; Mrs. Edward Norris, of Delton, this state; W. M. Weber, of Mt Vernon, Kentucky; Dwight N. Weber, of Hamilton, Montana; Mrs. H. C. Graham, of Manchester, Iowa; E. H. Weber, of Madison, this state; Mrs. H. E. Martin, of Masonville, Iowa; and John B. Weber, of Osage, Kansas. The deceased was buried last Monday by the side of his wife and daughters in Mount Repose Cemetery. An appropriate sermon was given. I am not related to this family.