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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 482

        JOEL WEAVER, residing on section 15, Wabash Township, was born in
Darke County, Ohio, about the year 1846. His parents, Joel and Mary M.
(Shull) Weaver, were natives of Virginia, where they were reared and
married. They subsequently settled in Darke County, where they made their
home until about 1858, removing thence to Woodford County, Illinois. From
Woodford they went to Fulton County, Illinois, where the father died, after
which the family returned to Darke County, Ohio, where the mother still
lives. They were the parents of twelve children, six sons and six
daughters. The father being a farmer, our subject, Joel Weaver, was reared
to the same avocation, which he has made his life-work. When old enough he
was sent out to work, and was employed as a farm laborer until the spring
of 1862, when he enlisted in the First Ohio Sharpshooters, and for a time
was attached to the Tenth Ohio Infantry Regiment. He was in the Sixteenth
Army Corps, under Rosecrans and Sherman, and participated in many of the
engagements in which that corps took part. He was wounded in the hip and in
the breast by bushwhackers, and with seven others was taken prisoner, but
he escaped the same night, thus avoiding the fate of his comrades, who were
confined almost seven months in Andersonville prison. Mr. Weaver spent two
months in hospital, when he rejoined his company at Stephenson, Alabama. He
was with Sherman on his march to the sea, through the Carolinas, and was on
guard at Sherman's headquarters when Johnston surrendered. His company was
detailed as body guard for General Sherman about a year after its
organization. Mr. Weaver was at the grand review at Washington, and
received his final discharge at Columbus, Ohio, in 1865. He now receives a
small pension for his services while in the army. After his discharge he
returned to his home in Ohio, and turned his attention to farming. He was
united in marriage, October 1, 1866, to Miss Charlotta Rape, who was born
in Darke County, Ohio, May 1, 1851, a daughter of Lewis and Maria (Wycoff)
Cummings, Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Weaver -Rosetta
J.M., Christopher C., Albert E., Minnie E.G., Vera Martinez De French,
Jasper Vivian Ainsley and Daisy Leah.  Mr. Weaver came with his family to
Adams County, Indiana, in September, 1876, where he has since followed
farming. He bought and removed to his present farm in Wabash Township in
the fall of 1883, which he has brought under good cultivation. He is a
member of John P. Porter Post, No. 83, G.A.R.