Junius Ashby Weaver

Brief Life History of Junius Ashby

When Junius Ashby Weaver was born in 1864, in Brunswick, Virginia, United States, his father, John Travis Weaver Sr, was 42 and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Delbridge, was 30. He married Willie Emma Sue Shelburne on 27 October 1886, in Brunswick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States in 1920 and Lewiston District, Lunenburg, Virginia, United States in 1930. He died on 10 April 1931, in Victoria, Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Liberty Christian Church Cemetery, Green Bay, Prince Edward, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Junius Ashby Weaver
1864–1931
Willie Emma Sue Shelburne
1869–1944
Marriage: 27 October 1886
John Shelburne Weaver
1887–1967
Harriette Elizabeth Weaver
1892–1975
Thomas Joseph Weaver
1894–1970
Clarence G Weaver
1899–
Ida P Weaver
1905–
Mae Victoria Weaver
1908–1985
Robert Warren Weaver
1912–1935

Sources (18)

  • J A Weaver, "United States, Census, 1930"
  • Junius A. Weaver, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
  • Junnis A. Weaver, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"

World Events (8)

1864 · Arlington Cemetery

Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

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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