Brief Life History of Samuel Lindsay
When Samuel Lindsay Weaver was born on 12 October 1843, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel Wilbur Weaver, was 29 and his mother, Olive Pool, was 37. He married Clarissa Josephine Borden on 16 September 1862, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Lincoln, Providence, Rhode Island, United States for about 10 years. In 1910, at the age of 67, his occupation is listed as foreman at a mill barn in Lincoln, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He died on 18 July 1912, in Saylesville, Lincoln, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 68.
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- Samuel L Weaver, "United States Census, 1900"
- Samuel L. Weaver, "Rhode Island, Marriages, 1724-1916"
- Samuel Lindsay Weaver, "Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1862 · US Naval Academy
The US Naval Academy was moved to Newport, Rhode Island from its original in Annapolis, Maryland on May 9, 1862.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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