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JOHN WEAVER, farmer; P. O. Gettysburg, Ohio. Elijah, his father, is a native of Virginia, born in 1820; Sarah, his wife, whose maiden name is Elmore, was born in Miami Co., Ohio., in 1833; he came with his parents to Ohio in 1821, locating in Highland Co., near where New Petersburg now stands; he resided about five years in Highland Co., after which he came to Miami Co., where he lived eleven years when he moved to Darke Co., in 1837, where he has resided ever since; they are the parents of six children, viz., Andrew, John, Henry, Charles, Jennie, Anna Bell; Henry, the father of Elijah, was born in Virginia, on the 22d of November, 1793. He married Susan Winters, who was born in 1793; Peter Weaver, the father of Henry, laid out the town of New Petersburg, in Highland Co.; Henry, Elijah’s father, departed this life on the 22d of November (being his birthday), 1865, Susanah, his wife, in 1866. She had a very remarkable dream a short time before her husband’s death, in which she was warned of the death of her husband, also of her own, which was to occur just one year after her husband, and in one year and two days from that time, she sank peacefully to rest. John, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Ohio, born in Darke Co., on the 24th of September, 1852; he spent his boyhood days on his father’s farm assisting in the cultivation of the soil, receiving his education in the district schools; when he was 18 years old, he went to Dayton, Ohio, where he worked for Peter Bolander in the fruit-tree nursery for about six months, after which he returned home and rented 6 acres of his father and engaged in the fruit-tree business on his own hook, and at the same time worked on the farm, which he followed for a period of about two years, meeting with good success; he followed buying and selling cordwood, which he hauled with team for one season, after which he concluded to take in a partner for life. On the 15th of April, 1875, he celebrated his marriage with Miss Hattie A Butt, daughter of Simon and Lovina Butt, who was born in Darke Co. on the 28th of January, 1852; after his marriage he rented his father’s farm and engaged in farming, where he resided for about two years, after which he moved on his father-in-law’s farm, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Weaver is a young man of good moral habits, a live, energetic, thorough business man, and, with the help of his good and amiable wife, has accumulated some property; one child has been born to them, viz., Simon Homer, born on the 5th of November, 1879.