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On the 1828 Census of Humberstone Township, Welland County is:
Josiah Dennis, 1 male over 16, 1 female over 16, 1 male under 16, 1 female under 16.
(Josiah Dennis, Elizabeth Zimmerman Weaver Dennis, Jacob Weaver, Margaret Dennis)
Jacob Weaver was born May 20, 1823 in the Township of Bertie, near Point Abino. His father was killed in the army before he was born and his mother was remarried to Nelson "Josiah" Dennis about 1825. Josiah Dennis' father Nathaniel Dennis and his brother Obadiah had inherited from their father Ezekiel Dennis, the western half of Point Abino. By 1829 Josiah had come to Walpole Township where he farmed land on Lot 17, Con 1, Walpole for Samuel Swarts who had a Saw Mill on the Sandusk Creek. Jacob grew up here and when he was 16 went to Simcoe to apprentice as a Tanner. About 1847 he married Hannah Dunmead and on the 1852 Census they are on the south east corner of Lot 18, Con 2, Walpole where Jacob operated a tannery on the east side of Long's Creek, which flows into the Sandusk Creek. He next moved to Lot 18, Con 4, Walpole, and in 1869 moved to Lot 2, Con 4, Rainham where he farmed and operated a tannery. He and Hannah lived there until her death in 1889 and his death in 1909. They are both buried in the Cheapside Baptist Cemetery.
Letter from Lottie Weaver Fleming 1892 - 1970
Daughter of John Weaver and Mary Elizabeth Forsyth
Granddaughter of Jacob Weaver 1823 - 1909
Hagersville April 9, 1968
Dear Hettie & Vera & all at your house,
Got your letter & was very glad to hear from you. Susie was here & read it too & was glad...... I think I have all the information about the Weavers now. Bertha, Ettie Phillips girl sent me them. Jake Weaver's mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Zimmerman. I was glad to know that..... his father got killed in the army before he was born & when he was two years old his mother married Josiah Dennis. He had no other brothers or sisters just half sisters and brothers. I used to go & see Grandpa often before he died & before I was married & he told me so, his mother just had him and no others.....If you haven't the list of the Dennis side that's Grandpa Weaver's half brothers & sisters I knew them all & their married names & where they lived & were buried & their families names. If you want them let me know & I'll send them or Susie & us may come up some time.
Love
Lottie & Wilfred.
JACOB WEAVER'S WILL
Probate
2621
Weaver
1909 - 65
Canada, Province of Ontario. In His Majesty's Surrogate Court of the County of Haldimand. Be it known that on the sixth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine the Last Will and Testament of Jacob Weaver late of the Township of Rainham in the County of Haldimand and Province of Ontario, Farmer, deceased, who died on or about the twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine at the Township of Rainham in the County of Haldimand and who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Rainham in the County of Haldimand, was proved and registered in the said Surrogate Court, a true copy of which said last will and testament is hereunder written and that the administration of all and singular the property of the said deceased and any way concerning his will was granted by the aforesaid Court to Louis Weaver of the said Township of Rainham, Farmer, the sole executor named in said the said will, he having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same by paying the just debts of the deceased and the Legacies contained in his will as far as he is hereunto bound by law and by distributing the residue (if any) of the property according to law and to exhibit under date a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the said property and to render a just and true account of his executorship when hereunto lawfully required.
Sgd.
Registrar of the Surrogate Court
Of the County of Haldimand
Will
This is the Last Will and Testament of me Jacob Weaver of the Township of Rainham in the County of Haldimand and Province of Ontario, Farmer, made this sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five. I revoke all other wills or testamentary dispositions by me at any time here to fore made and declare this only to be and contain my last will and testament. I direct all my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses to be paid and satisfied by my executors hereinafter named as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate of which I may be possessed in the manner following, that is to say: First to my son Albert Weaver I give and bequeath all my real and personal property goods chattels and effects of whatsoever kind or nature encumbering the same with the payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies hereinafter named. Second: to my son John Weaver I give the sum of ten dollars he having been otherwise provided for. To each of my surviving children Jesse Weaver, Ellen Thomas, Louis Weaver and Almeda Sitter I give and bequeath the sum of Fifty dollars. Fourth: The aforesaid legacies shall be paid by my son Albert in the order of the age of the aforesaid beginning at the oldest and paying off one each year down to the youngest. The first of such payments to be made one year after my decease. All the residue of my estate not herein before disposed of I give devise and bequeath unto my aforesaid son Albert Weaver. And I nominate and appoint my son Louis Weaver to be Executor of this my last will and testament as witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year first above written.
Sgd. Jacob Weaver
Signed Published and declared by the said Jacob Weaver, the testator, as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us, who, both present together at the same time, in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses.
Sgd. E. R. Phillips
Sgd. N. Nablo
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Rainham Builders
1823 - 1909 (86 years)