submitted by
Marilynn Howard
OBITUARY

Wayne County Record
Thursday, February 23, 1933
p. 4,  col. 3.

Hannah Weaver Dies
At Advanced Age

Hannah, daughter of John and Peggy Lindle, was born in Muskingum County,  Ohio, April 14, 1844. In the tender years of childhood she was left an orphan. The home of a good and true friend, Harrison Taylor, was opened to this lonely child and she beame as one of the famly; moving to Illinois with this family when she was eight years of age, they settled in Wayne County near Johnsonville and for four-score years this community was her home.  She saw this wild pioneer country transformed into its present state of development and always took an active interest in those things that stood for the betterment of the community in which she lived.

In young womanhood she was converted and united with the Milner General Baptist church, later she moved her membership to the Wesley Chapel M.E. church of which body she remained a faithful and consistent member until her death.

She was united in marriage with James H. Weaver, February 21, 1867. Four children were born to this union, two sons and two daughters. The two sons having died in childhood, the companion also passed away April 12, 1918.

She passed peacefully away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Albert Bratton, Monday morning, February 13, 1933, aged 88 years, nine months and 30 days. She is survived by two daughters; Mrs. Albert Bratton and Mrs. O.O. Leathers, ten grandchildren, 22 great grand children and many other relatives and friends who will mourn her passing.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at one o’clock from the Johnsonville M.E. church by Elder W.D. Crippin assisted by the local pastor, Rev. Murdach. Interment was in the Johnsonville Cemetery.

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