SOLOMON WEAVER comes of German ancestry, the earliest of whom to immigrate to this country was Adam Weaver, who, with his son John, located in Washington county, Penn. Here the latter purchased 400 acres of land one mile north of Fredericktown on Fish Pot run, in East Bethlehem township. John Weaver received a somewhat limited education, but by close observation of men and things, and attentive reading, gained a large amount of general information, becoming a very intelligent citizen. In 1788 he was married to Catherine, daughter of Martin Spoone, and the following children were born to them: Adam (deceased in 1860); Sarah, who married C. Michener, of Seneca county, Ohio, and is now ninety years of age; Jacob; Martin, a farmer of Seneca county, Ohio; Daniel; Mrs. Elizabeth Ault, who resided at Orville, Wayne Co., Ohio; Mrs. Catherine Huffman; Mrs. Mary Smith; John; Joseph, deceased in 1890, and Margaret. Of this family are yet living Sarah, Martin and Margaret. The parents died on the home farm in East Bethlehem township. Adam Weaver, son of John and Catherine Weaver, was born in 1807 on the home place in East Bethlehem township, Washington county, where he passed an uneventful boyhood. He was married to Elizabeth Swartz, a member of a German family, and the young couple began life in a pioneer log cabin, surrounded by heavy forests, and there endured the usual privations of frontier life. As years passed by their industry was rewarded, the wild rough cabin home gave place to a more commodious dwelling, and golden grain waved in the breeze where the stately monarchs of the forest had but lately reared their lofty heads. Children came to bless their home as follows: John, Daniel, Elizabeth, Jacob, Solomon, Sarah and Adam. The father was called to his eternal rest January 17, 1867, having been preceded by Mrs. Weaver January 26, 1838. They were members of the Methodist Church. Solomon Weaver, son of Adam and Elizabeth Weaver, was born January 3, 1823, on the old homestead where he is yet living in East Bethlehem township. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, but was an extremely delicate youth, weighing at the age of twenty years but eighty pounds, being now, however, a large man His education was secured after he had attained a mature age, and he has well improved each opportunity. Mr. Weaver has always been an agriculturist, and, having never married, his maiden sister Sarah, who was born December 29, 1825, keeps house for him.

Text taken from page 1467 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed February 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published February 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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