The Southwest Daily Times
Liberal, Kansas
August 31, 1939

James William Weaver, 77, 503 West Second street, Liberal, passed away in a hospital here at 6:20 this morning.  He had been seriously ill the past three weeks, but his health had been failing since last June.

Funeral services will be held in the First Christian church, Liberal,tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. Burial will be in the Bucklin cemetery.

Services tomorrow afternoon will be conducted by Reverend Harold B. Duryea, pastor of the Chrisitan church, assisted by Mrs. Mason Glaze,  Christian minister at Meade.  Burial will be in the Bucklin cemetery at 5 o’clock tomorrow afternoon, where Weaver was a member of the First  Christian church.  The body wil be taken to Bucklin by the Campbell-Buckley Funeral home, which has charge of funeral arrangements.  The body will lie in state from 5 o’clock this afternoon until noon tomorrow at the Campbell-Buckley chapel.

J.W. Weaver was born in Wayne county, Illinois, November 17, 1861.  On June 2, 1889, he was united in marriage with Miss Cansada Malone at Upland, Nebraska.

He is survived by three sons and two daughters; Henry Weaver, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Archie Weaver of Wichita, and Charles Weaver, Manter; Mrs. Nellie Stone, Canton, Missouri, and Mrs. Leonard Pitman of Liberal.  He was preceded in death by two sons and one daughter, one son and one daughter dying in infancy and another son dying six years ago in New Mexico.

 He is also survived by three sisters and one brother, all living at Fairfield, Illinois: Albert Weaver, Mrs. Martha Talbot, Mrs. Mary Shehorn and Mrs. Stella Tibbs.

Weaver came to Liberal nine years ago from Fowler, where he had farmed. He was a member of the Christian church at Bucklin.