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- Clarence, this information is really a breakthrough! Based on its contents, I may have figured out the identity of your Weaver ancestor, or at least a member of your ancestor's line. The most likely candidate is Samuel Pierce Weaver, born ca. 1825 in Alabama. Although there were several Weavers in Oktibbeha County, he was the only one to appear on that county's slave schedule in either 1850 and 1860.
1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Samuel Weaver
Age: 25
Birth Year: abt 1825
Birthplace: Alabama
Home in 1850: Oktibbeha, Mississippi, USA
Gender: Male
Family Number: 28
Samuel Weaver 25
Cisley Weaver 26
Martha Weaver 2
Mississippi, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1805-1890
Name: Samuel Weaver
State: MS
County: Oktibbeha County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1850
Record Type: Slave Schedule
Page: 005
Database: MS 1850 Slave Schedule
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Samuel Weaver
Age: 36
Birth Year: abt 1824
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Alabama
Home in 1860: Oktibbeha, Mississippi
Post Office: Starkville
Dwelling Number: 463
Family Number: 392
Occupation: Farming
Real Estate Value: 5000
Personal Estate Value: 25000
Samuel Weaver 36
Sicily Weaver 38
Martha Weaver 11
Samuel Weaver 8
George Weaver 4
William Weaver 1
Mississippi, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1805-1890
Name: Samuel Weaver
State: MS
County: Oktibbeha County
Township: St.Arkville
Year: 1860
Record Type: Federal Population Schedule
Page: 060
Database: MS 1860 Federal Census Index
1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Samuel Weaver
Age in 1870: 50
Birth Year: abt 1820
Birthplace: Alabama
Dwelling Number: 626
Home in 1870: Police Beat 2, Oktibbeha, Mississippi
Race: White
Gender: Male
Occupation: Farmer
Male Citizen over 21: Y
Personal Estate Value: 860
Samuel Weaver 50
Eisley Weaver 52
In 1870 Samuel Weaver and his wife Cisley are living next door to their daughter Mattie J. Dickson, and her husband W. C. Dickson (I know it looks like Pickson), whose household includes two employees with the surname Weaver.
Samuel Weaver died ca. 1871. By 1880 his widow and family relocated to the Waxahatchie area of Texas, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
Samuel Pearson Weaver, Sr
Birth 1825
Death 1871 (aged 45–46)
Anderson County, Texas, USA
Burial Non-Cemetery Burial, Specifically: Date and place of death unknown
Memorial ID 115666862
Date of death and burial unknown. Probably after 1871 in Anderson County, Texas. Last known living in Starksville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi in 1870. However, a "Mr. Weaver" is mentioned in an 1871 letter written by his son-in-law, William C. Dickson, stating that he is living near "Bonner's Ferry", which has been identified as having been in lower Anderson County, Texas on the Navasota River. It is unclear whether he is referring to his father-in-law or his brother-in-law, Samuel Pierce Weaver, Jr.
About 1848, Samuel Weaver's parents, Daniel Weaver and Millicent Hines, migrated from Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama to Ellis County, Texas near present-day Reagor Springs. Their daughter (Samuel's sister), Hulda Weaver, was married to Robert Mayfield one of the first white settlers to the area. From all indications, his parents remained in Texas until the time of their death. These familial connections may have prompted his family's post Civil War move to Texas.
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