Harvey Newton Weaver

Brief Life History of Harvey Newton

When Harvey Newton Weaver was born on 14 June 1875, in Benton, Arkansas, United States, his father, Ephraim Weaver, was 54 and his mother, Ruline Jane Stites, was 34. He married Mary Minnie Delia Persons on 22 January 1901, in Rogers, Benton, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Noel, McDonald, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Moseley, Delaware, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. He died in 1961, in Siloam Springs, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Siloam Springs, Benton, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harvey Newton Weaver
1875–1961
Mary Minnie Delia Persons
1879–1958
Marriage: 22 January 1901
Ray Loyd Weaver
1901–1970
Loren C. Weaver
1903–1963
Ralph C Weaver
1904–1964
Robert Orval Weaver
1906–1960
Faye Audrey Weaver
1908–1971
Hazel Thelma Weaver
1912–2009

Sources (42)

  • Harvey N Weaver, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Arkansas, Birth Certificates, 1914-1922
  • Harvey N Weaver, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"

World Events (8)

1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.

The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.

1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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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