Andrew F. Weir and Julia A. Ziegler

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Husband Andrew F. Weir ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Andrew Wier 3
           Born: 15 May 1849 - Harmony, Jackson Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1918 2
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         Father: Frederick Weir (Abt 1804-1889) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Kepler (Abt 1817-Abt 1862) 1

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       Marriage: 7 May 1872 - Zelienople, Jackson Twp, Butler Co, PA 4

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Wife Julia A. Ziegler ^{2 3}

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            AKA: Julia A. Zigler 4
           Born: 1853 2
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           Died: 1914 2
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         Father: Andrew Ziegler (1827-1894) 3 5 6
         Mother: Deborah Moyer (1826-1895) 3 6

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Children

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1 F Sarah Tillie Weir ⁴

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            AKA: Matilda Weir 7
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         Spouse: Robert Stafford (      -      ) 4

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2 F Mary Louise Weir ^{4 7}

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         Spouse: Alexander M. Houk (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew F. Weir

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He passed the years of childhood and of youth until he had attained his majority in Harmony and Middle Lancaster, attending the district schools, and one term of high school at Zelienople, Butler County, Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-one he married, and shortly after entered the employ of R. W. Cunningham in New Castle, taking charge of that gentleman's home, attending to the gardening, and care of the grounds and stables; he remained with his employer nineteen years, and by frugality and prudence, he saved during these years sufficient money to make him independent, and to enable him to purchase in April, 1891, the Boiles' farm some four miles south of New Castle, comprising about 100 acres of fine farming land. Mr. Weir, a man who wished to be beholden to no one, paid the purchase money, amounting to $7,400 in cash. He expended half as much more in making necessary improvements, not counting his own labor and time. Much of the property was still encumbered with the original stumps that remained from clearing the land, and the different fields were in no fit condition for cultivation. Ravines were filled, drains put in, stumps grubbed out, and stones removed, and many other minor improvements made until the new owner could take pride in his fine estate. Not the least notable feature of the farm were the four springs, and especially the one near the house, which supplied the best of cold spring water for all domestic purposes. The buildings were large, commodious and well-appointed in every particular; about the dwelling was a grove, which furnished in the summer a cool and comfortable retreat in the noon hour, so grateful to the farm-laborers. Mr. Wier gave his attention chiefly to dairy-farming, selling the product of about twenty cows. [BOBLC, 257]

1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 257.

2 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 165.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1196.

4 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 258.

5 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 992.

6 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 164.

7 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 169.