WEAVER (Mrs Col) James Riley - Putnam

Source: Greencastle Daily Banner & Times 16 Oct 1895 p2

Troy. NY Times – Sad news comes to friends in Troy from Colonel James Riley Weaver.  It announces the death of his most estimable wife. She passed away from earth in Greencastle, Ind last Friday after having undergone a surgical operation from the shock of which she never rallied. Thus died one full of the graces and virtues of a noble womanhood.  She was a daughter of the eminent scholar and beloved teacher, Bishop Simpson of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in the sweetness and beauty of her life she strikingly illustrated the power of pure and lofty example and the effect of true Christian training, supplementing a strong and symmetrical character.  While Colonel Weaver was serving his country with conspicuous ability and efficiency in the important post of the US Consul General at Vienna, she presided over his household in the Austrian capital and won the warm esteem of all with whom she came in social contact. She was a lady of marked intellectuality with a culture, refinement, grace of manner and goodness of heart that made her admired and gave her distinction in every circle in which she moved.  Recently Colonel Weaver who is a scholar of high attainments, has been professor of political economy in the DePauw University at Greencastle, Ind. There she made new friends among men and women of learning and talent, and with her brilliant husband found most congenial companionship. To Colonel Weaver, so greatly stricken, to the children, bereft of sweet motherly ministrations and guidance, and to all the dear family circle on whom this blow has fallen with such crushing force, there is extended the deep, profound and tender sympathy to those in this city and elsewhere who best knew and esteemed Mrs. Weaver because of her worth, usefulness and the many engaging qualities that stamped her as one of the best of women.