John Huston and Elizabeth Weakley

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Husband John Huston ¹

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           Born: 1795 2
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           Died: 2 Apr 1869 2
         Buried:  - Dickinson Presbyterian Church, Penn Twp, Cumberland Co, PA

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         Father: John Huston (1744-1828) 3
         Mother: Margaret Huston (      -1831) 3

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       Marriage: 23 Feb 1822 2

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Wife Elizabeth Weakley ²

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           Died: 4 Feb 1851 2
         Buried:  - Dickinson Presbyterian Church, Penn Twp, Cumberland Co, PA

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         Father: Samuel Weakley (1751-      ) 2 4
         Mother: Hester Lusk (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M James Huston ²

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           Born:  - Dickinson Twp, Cumberland Co, PA
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2 M Sidney W. Huston ²

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           Born:  - Dickinson Twp, Cumberland Co, PA
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3 M John Williamson Huston ²

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           Born: 20 Feb 1828 - Dickinson Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 4 May 1900 - North Middleton Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

         Spouse: Sarah Jane Line (      -Aft 1905) 2 5
           Marr: 20 Oct 1836 2

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4 M Samuel Huston ²

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           Born:  - Dickinson Twp, Cumberland Co, PA
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5 F Caroline Creigh Huston ²

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           Born:  - Dickinson Twp, Cumberland Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - John Huston

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He grew up on the farm in Dickinson township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and was trained to the business of farming, but while yet a mere boy did teaming on the road. At the breaking out of the War of 1812 his brother James enlisted in Capt. James Piper's company, which marched from Cumberland County by way of Pittsburgh to the Canadian frontier. John was returning from Pittsburgh with his father's team and met the company on the way. He found his brother too ill to be of much service to his country and offered to take his place and was accepted. James brought the team home and John served as a soldier until the end of his company's enlistment. He saw the British ships which Commodore Perry captured brought into the port of Erie and used to describe to his children how their decks were covered with the blood and brains of the slaughtered. His brother James afterward died at home, unmarried.
John Huston and his wife began their married life in Dickinson township, and always lived there. In January, 1817, his father, John Huston, Sr., bought of Robert Lamberton a farm containing 109 acres of land lying in the northern part of Dickinson township, which in the distribution of his estate came into the possession of his son John. Here the son and his wife spent the greater portion of their lives, and here were born to them their children.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 677.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 681.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 677, 685.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 118.

5 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 463, 582.