Joseph Weir and Jemima Squires

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Husband Joseph Weir ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1796-1800 - Franklin Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
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           Died: 1867 4
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         Father: Samuel Weir (      -      ) 1 5
         Mother: Margaret Clark (      -1847) 6

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Phoebe Day (      -1881) 7 8

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Wife Jemima Squires ⁹

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           Born: Abt 1800 - Morris Twp, Washington Co, PA
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           Died: 1842 9
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Children

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1 M Samuel C. Weir ⁹

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           Born: 
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           Died: when sixty-one years old
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2 M William L. Weir ⁹

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           Born: 
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           Died: when thirty-three years old
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3 F Elizabeth Weir ^{10 11}

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           Died: 8 Apr 1853 12
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         Spouse: Stephen Post (1824-1909) 11 13
           Marr: 3 Oct 1850 11

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4 F Jane Weir ⁹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 M George Weir ⁹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 M Joseph Weir ⁹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 M John B. Weir ^{1 14}

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           Born: 1837 - Franklin Twp, Washington Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Julia Bane (      -1886) 4
           Marr: 1864 4

         Spouse: Martha "Mattie" Braden (      -      ) 15
           Marr: 1886 or 1887 15

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Weir

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He was an active member of the Democratic party. He served one term as director of the poor, and filled various township offices. He was school director for many years, also supervisor, and was twice elected justice of the peace. He was familiarly known as "Uncle Joe" among his friends, being a genial and popular man. He followed farming, but devoted his attention to raising sheep, being so fond of these animals that he would neither kill one nor eat its flesh. He shipped the wool one year to Lowell, Massachusetts, and received the highest price paid for fleeces in the entire county. He was a regular attendant and supporter of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was a man of strong convictions, one who never swerved from any duty which lay before him. Though far advanced in years, his death was an unexpected blow to all. He was salting the sheep one morning, and, failing to return to the house, was found dead in the pasture. The medical authorities gave a verdict of heart failure, but his son John was of the opinion that the old gentleman, being crippled by sciatica, tripped in the deep grass over the salt pail, and could not regain his breath.

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General Notes: Wife - Jemima Squires

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The Squire family were among the pioneer settlers of Franklin town­ship, Washington County, Pennsylvania, now scattered, some of the members having moved to Ohio.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 800.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 792, 1356.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1356.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 793.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 792, 1434.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1434.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 792, 1042.

8 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 57.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 792.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 792, 1116.

11 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1013.

12 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1116.

13 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 767, 1116.

14 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 792, 767.

15 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 767, 793.