Brief Life History of Jacob
When Jacob Weamer was born on 26 December 1806, in Plumville, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Andrew Weimer, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Mench, was 30. He married Margaret Anna Roof in 1832, in South Mahoning Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Mahoning Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 28 December 1881, in South Mahoning Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Saint John Lutheran Cemetery, South Mahoning Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Jacob Weamer, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jacob Weimer - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Jacob Weimer
- Jacob Weamer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name, from an agent derivative of Middle English weven ‘to weave’ (Old English wefan).
English: habitational name from a place on the Weaver river in Cheshire, now called Weaver Hall but recorded simply as Weuere in the 13th and 14th centuries. The river name is from Old English wēfer(e) ‘winding stream’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘weaver’, for example German Weber , Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Tkacz or Tkach , Hungarian Takács (see Takacs ), and Slovenian Tkalec, Tekavec or Veber .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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