Jacob Weamer

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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Family Time Line

Jacob Weamer
1806–1881
Margaret Anna Roof
1811–1895
Marriage: 1832
Andrew Lone Weamer
1833–1925
Isabel Weamer
1857–
Mary Weamer
1835–1908
William H. Weamer
1837–1924
John G Weamer
1838–
John Silas Weamer
1840–1862
George Washington Weamer
1842–1917
Joseph Clark Weamer
1845–1925
Margaret C. Weamer
1846–1924
Gettis Franklin Weamer
1854–1862

Sources (10)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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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