Jacob C. Weaver, a well-known farmer of Richland township and the owner of a well-kept farm in the immediate vicinity and north of Redkey, is a native of the "Buckeye" state, but has been a resident of Indiana and of Jay county since he was seven years of age and thus feels himself to be thoroughly "one of the folks" here. Mr. Weaver was born on a farm in Greene county, Ohio, July 9, 1869, and is a son of John H. and Hannah E. (Ireland) Weaver, who established their home in Jay county in 1875. John H. Weaver also was born in Greene county, Ohio, about 1837, and grew up there as a farmer. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in that county and there remained until he was thirty-eight years of age, when, in 1875, he disposed of his interests m Greene county and came over into Indiana with his family and settled in Jay county, buying a tract of 215 acres in the neighborhood of what then was called Greene Post office and there established his home, he and his wife spending the remainder of their lives there. They were the parents of nine children, of whom four are living, the subject of this sketch having two brothers, George and Frank Weaver, and a sister, Mina.
As noted above, Jacob C. Weaver was but seven years of age when he came with his parents to Jay county and he grew to manhood on the home farm in the vicinity of Greene. He continued to farm at home until his marriage at the age of twenty-three years, after which he bought a tract of eighty acres a mile north of Redkey and there established his home. Four years later he returned to the old home farm and farmed the same for four years, at the end of which time he returned to his own farm north of Redkey and has continued to reside there, he and his family being very comfortably situated.
It was in 1892 that Jacob C. Weaver was
united in marriage to Clarissa E. Coalter, who was born in this county,
daughter of William and Elizabeth Coalter, and to this union four children
have been born, namely: Clay R., who married Sadie Hahn and has one child, a
son, Robert; Fay M., who married Almeta Saffers, who died leaving one child,
Jean; Nila, who married Robert Silvers and has a son, Max Silvers; and Maud,
who married Arthur PECK, and now lives at Hartford City, Ind. The Weaver's
are Democrats.
SOURCE: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of
Jay County Indiana, Historical Publishing Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, p.
235. Transcribed by Eloine Chesnut