Biography of David Weaver, page 699.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana. 
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

David Weaver, one of the old settlers of De Kalb County, is a native of 
Stark County, Ohio, born Aug. 18, 1807.  His parents Valentine and Martha 
Weaver, who were native of the State of Virginia, and early settlers of 
Stark County, Ohio.  He was reared in his native county on a farm, receiving 
but limited educational advantages. He remained with his parents till 
manhood, and in the spring of 1838 came to Indiana and settled in De Kalb 
County, where for several years he ran a saw-mill.  He was married in 1847 
to Kittie A. Swan, a native of Stark County, Ohio, but a resident of De Kalb 
County at the time of her marriage.  After his marriage he settled on a 
tract of heavily timbered land, and began to open and clear a farm. On this 
farm he lived till 1875 and then removed to Auburn where he has since lived 
retired from the active labors of life.  His farm contains 320 acres of 
choice land, and is now carried on by his sons Allen and Henry.  To Mr. 
and Mrs. Weaver were born three children---Allen, Henry and Harriet.  
Their daughter was the wife of Jefferson Clark, she died in 1875, from the 
effects of burns received by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, and left 
two children.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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