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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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James W. Weaver, farmer, Laneburg, Ark. This industrious and much-esteemed citizen was originally from Carroll County, Tenn., where his birth occurred on December 4, 1825, receiving his education in that State, and in 1844 moved with his parents to Arkansas, remaining one year at Washington. When twenty-one years of age he commenced farming for himself on the land he now owns, which at the present time consists of 247 acres. He was married, on March 21, 1850, in Nevada County, Ark., to Miss Nancy F. Franks, a native of Alabama, born October 11, 1831, and the daughter of Samuel Franks. Ten children were born to this marriage: Rosanna J. (deceased, born February 11, 1851), David A. (deceased, born August 27, 1852), Mary E. (born February 7, 1855), Lydia C. (deceased, born April 16, 1857), James C. (deceased, born February 3, 1859), William G. H., born May 11, 1861, and Samuel W. (born May 11, 1861), Lecy L. (deceased, born April 10. 1866), Joshua A. born February 7, 1869), and Martha A. (born May 15, 1873). Mr. Weaver has been farming in Nevada County ever since 1844, and has been moderately successful. He has had considerable sickness in his family, but has always made a good living. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and died on February 22, 1888. Mr. Weaver is a member of the Alliance, and in politics is a Union Labor man. He is a Jeffersonian Democrat, but does not favor the new Democratic issue. During the war he was in Company C, Twentieth Arkansas Regiment, under Col. Daniel Jones, and was in various skirmishes, one of them being Prairie De Ann, another the bombardment of Grand Gulf. He was not wounded, but came out of the army practically disabled. He held the rank of sergeant of his company, and was a heavy loser, financially, during the war. He was at one time, before the war, lieutenant of the militia. His father, Wilson Weaver was a native of North Carolina, and died on August 4, 1881, and the mother, whose name was Miss Jane Munn, and who was also a native of North Carolina, died in 1867. They were married in East Tennessee, and became the parents of ten children, the following now living: Isaac, William, Virz Ann, John S., James W., Joshua W. and Samuel. The father’s second wife, Eliza Austin, who was a native of Louisiana, is still living. Both parents were members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder, and he was a soldier in the War of 1812.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Nevada County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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