Monument to Early Settlers


Since the story of the Weaver land graveyard and its people was started in The Clarion last November, Franklin M. Weaver, Harry M. Weaver and Joseph M. Weaver, who have been taking care of the old burial place, after consulting several of their immediate friends and relatives and receiving substantial assistance from those who were greatly interested. in perpetuating the memory of the silent sleepers in the sacred enclosure, erected a fine monument to the memory of those whose names had altogether disappeared from the markers over their graves, as well as to some of those whose little monuments of ordinary field stones were fast crumbling to decay, and also kindly adding several names of their ancestors' families who repose in the Martin graveyard, in Waterloo County, Ontario.

The marker is 34 by 37 inches by 12 inches. On its face is the inscription:

THIS STONE ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY OF
THE FIRST SETTLER

HENRY WEBER

On the back or reverse side are these names:

Henry Weber   1690 - 1745
Maudlin Kendig
Heine Weber   1736 - 1826
Eva Hershey
Henry Weber   1758 - 1816
Feronica Hershey
Benjamin Weber   1786 - 1863
Abraham Weber   1788 - 1847
David Weber   1790 - 1868
Henry Weber   1793 - 1862
Francis Weber   1796 - 1875
Daniel Weber   1797 - 1864
Henry B. Weber   1830 - 1922
Francis B. Weber   1835 - 1917

All of the names thereon are included in the story in some particular place. Benjamin, Abraham, Henry, and Daniel, moved to Canada when that colony was in its infancy, prospered and remained there with their families while their two brothers, David and Francis, remained on the old plantation.

In the graveyard near the stone meetinghouse started in 1792, stands a granite stone to the memory of another line of the Weber family, together with a line of one of the numerous lines of the Martin family, with the following historical data:

Weber    
Hannes Weber (Switzerland)   1721
Henry Weber   1690 - 1745
Christian Weber   1732 - 1820
Samuel Weber   1759 - 1825
Christian Weber   1785 - 1854
Gideon Weber   1815 - 1892

Martin                       
Andrew Martin   1759
David Martin   1784
George Martin   1742 - 1828
Abraham Martin   1765 - 1847
George Martin   1796 - 1859
Abraham Martin   1827 - 1895

Both these memorial stones with their numerous lettering and many dates were designed, carved and erected by T. M. Storb's Sons, of New Holland, and reflect great credit for their helpfulness and workmanship, in their ability in giving so much history on the limited spaces.


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