149 years ago, 17 January 1872, James Henry Weaver [my first cousin, twice removed] was born in Monroe, Perry County, Ohio, to William Powell and Catherine Eliszabeth Deaver Weaver. [Yes, a Deaver married a Weaver!] William was the brother of my great grandfather, Lemuel Weaver.
On 7 March 1894, in Morgan County, Ohio, James married Mary E Wood, the daughter of John and Sarah Ann Updike Wood. The couple became the parents of three children: John William (1894), Sarah Catherine (1899), and Louis (1908).
Mary preceded James in death, passing away on 26 December 1941, in Waverly, Pike County, Ohio.
James married in 1943, Mary’s sister, Malinda Catherine Wood Williams, the widow of Howard Hamilton Williams whoe died in 1917.
James passed away on 7 November 1945 in Fairfield County, Ohio and is buried in the Evergreen Union Cemetery in Waverly, Pike County, Ohio, beside his first wife, Mary. Malinda lived until 1964 and is buried next to her first husband.
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