Jonas A. Weaver ¹⁴³⁰

  General Notes:

BIOGRAPHY

Jonas A. Weaver, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Stutzman) Weaver, was born September 22, 1860. He settled on the homestead, where he has since lived as a farmer. For the last seven years he has supplied milk to the inhabitants of Windber. He is a stockholder in the Scalp and Johnstown pike, the Windber National Bank, the Johnstown Trust Company, the Citizens' National Bank, and the Hooversville National Bank, in which he is also a director. He is a Republican and a member of the German Baptist church.

Mr. Weaver married Mary J., daughter of Hiram and Frances Shaffer, and granddaughter of David Shaffer. The marriage took place November 4, 1883, the issue being as follows: Milton, born July 27, 1884; Charles, November 16, 1885; Abraham, December 23, 1887; Hiram, September 25, 1889; Quinter, October 14, 1891; Fannie, January 27, 1893, died March 12, 1900; Clara, December 17, 1894; Roy, April 17, 1896; Foster, April 28, 1898; Sylvester, December 11, 1899, died January 8, 1900; and Joseph, March 24, 1902. To these children Mr. Weaver has given the best educational facilities within his power, and Milton, the eldest, is now a teacher in one of the public schools.

Source: History of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania with Genealogical and Personal History
Author: Somerset County by William H. Welfley, Volume III
Publication: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York: : Chicago, 1906
Note: Information collected at the Clarion County Historical Library, Clarion, Pennsylvania.
Page: p. 387 ¹⁴³⁰

Jonas married Mary Jane Shaffer on 4 Nov 1883 in Pennsylvania, USA.¹⁴³⁰ (Mary Jane Shaffer was born on 26 Sep 1861 in Paint Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA,¹⁴³⁰ died on 1 Sep 1932 in Paint Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA ¹⁴³⁰ and was buried in Berkey Brethren Cemetery (Windber, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA) ¹⁸⁴⁴.)