WEAVER, Elijah C. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

The funeral services for Elijah C. WEAVER, 62, brother of Guy Weaver of Waveland was held Tuesday morning at Machledt Funeral Home, Rev. John Services in charge. Mr. Weaver was born in Vermillion County, Nov 16, 1886, the son of John William and Loretta Weaver. He was married near Byron to Ruth Maxwell in 1926. He died Monday Sept 19 in the Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, where he had been ill for some time. Surviving are his father of Crawfordsville; two sons, Elijah, Jr. of Florida and Fred in the Merchant Marine; 3 daughters, Virginia Loretta and Dorothy all of Florida; two brothers, Homer of Marshall and Guy Eskel of Waveland and a sister of Marshall, Mrs. Roy Sowers; two half sisters, Mrs Myrtle Ingersoll of Ladoga and Mrs. Dorothy Powell of Crawfordsville. His wife and naother daugher, Mabel, died several years ago. Burial in Wolf Creek Cemetery near Wallace.  - kbz

Note: I want to thank my grandmother, Sarah Hazel Morgan Smith who kept so many old obituary in a scrapbook I was lucky to inherit :)  Love you maa'm