My Genealogy Hound

Joseph Weisiger, Jr., engaged in stock raising and farming in the Fourth District of Sumner County, is a son of Joseph and Mary A. (Kincaid) Weisiger. The mother was a daughter of Judge John Kincaid, of Kentucky, an ex-member of Congress. Our subject was born in Danville, Ky., in 1850, being the second of nine children, five living. The father was of German descent, born in Danville, Ky., in 1825. The grandfather was also named Joseph and was a native of Kentucky and a practicing physician at Danville until 1853, when he moved to Texas and remained there until his death in 1881. The father was raised at Danville and received a good collegiate education, being a graduate of Center College at that place. In early life he engaged in the drug business at Frankfort, Ky., and then at Danville, but later has been a farmer. He was married in 1847; moved to Sumner County in 1870, and has since then resided in the county near Hendersonville, engaged in farming. The mother was born in Lincoln County, Ky., in 1826, and died in 1884, a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church. Our subject received a collegiate education at Danville, and came with his parents to Sumner County in 1870. In December, 1871, he married Miss Fannie C., daughter of John W. and Eveline Head. They had five children, three living: Eva, Etta and William. Mrs. Weisiger died January 19, 1884, and in May, 1886, he married Miss Callie, daughter of John B. and O. E. Baker. Mrs. Weisiger was born in Sumner County in 1864. Mr. Weisiger first settled at Hendersonville where he remained until 1877, then moved to his present farm, one mile and a half southwest of Gallatin on the Nashville pike, where he owns eighty-three acres of land, and is quite successful in both farming and stock raising. He is kind and charitable in disposition and in politics a Democrat; his first presidential vote was for Horace Greeley. Mr. and Mrs. Weisiger are both members of the Old School Presbyterian Church.