Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

ELDER BIRD WEAVER was born in Allen County, Ky., in 1843; professed a 
hope in Christ in 1856, and united with the Baptist Church in Allen 
County.  He enlisted September 15, 1862, in company H, Twenty-sixth 
Kentucky Infantry, and served three years, lack-ing [sic] forty days.  
He was with the regiment in all its engagements after enlistment, the 
principal ones being Nashville, Tenn., Salt Work, W. Va., and the North 
Carolina campaign, besides the Knoxville, Tenn., siege, where he was on 
detached service.  He returned home in August, 1865, and assumed a 
farmer's life.  He was married on the 13th day of February, 1866, to 
Miss Elizabeth E. Motley, daughter of H. T. Motley of Allen County, by 
whom he has three children: Mary Etter, William Shearman (now dead), and 
Robert Grant.  On the 6th of August, 1878, Mrs. Weaver departed this 
life, and on the 26th day of August, 1880, he was married to Mrs. Mary 
S. Bridges, a widow with one child by her first husband - Amplus Owen.  
Mrs. Bridges' maiden name was Austin.  Soon after the war our subject 
was impressed with a call to the ministry, but being a man of limited 
means, and possessed of only a common school education, besides the bad 
health of his family, he long stood in doubt as to duty, but began to 
study for the ministry in 1875.  He became a pastor in 1876, and 
continued preaching as pastor for Shiloh Church some three years and a 
half, doing service for other churches at the same time in adjoining 
counties.  In 1880, he located in Morgantown, Ky., and has remained 
there until date [sic], doing pastoral work in Butler, Simpson, 
Muhlenburgh [sic], McLean and Ohio Counties; is pastor of Cool Spring 
and Union Zion Churches, Butler County; Green River Union, Ohio County; 
Pleasant Hope, McLean County; has helped to build and constitute four 
churches; was at the constitution of Mount Union Association; worked 
with and for said body at this time.  He has preached 1017 sermons; 
delivered 263 exhortations; traveled 10,000 miles, mostly by land, and 
rode the same horse nearly all the time.  The latter part of the time, 
the churches of his charge have been very prosperous having gained 84 
per cent, in eighteen months.  Besides this amount of preaching, which 
has been done mostly for poor people, he made a canvass in Butler in 
favor of local option.  He is the youngest child of a family of eleven, 
five girls and six sons.  All of the family are dead but one brother, 
W. T. Weaver, a farmer of Allen, and one sister, Mrs. Eliza J. Rickman, 
of Missouri.  His father, William, died in 1845; his mother's maiden 
name was Elizabeth Dopson; each was born in Virginia.  His grandfather 
was John Weaver, who was a soldier during the war of Independence; his 
father, as well as his uncle, James Weaver served in the war of 1815.  
All of his uncles and aunts, on his father's side, became the heads of 
large families; all of them sought the pleasures of a farmer's life, but 
Elder Bird Weaver, and Dr. J. E. Meredith of Bowling Green, who chose a 
public profession.  Nearly all the family were Baptists, not one could 
be called a castaway; all of them were Democrats up to the war; since 
that time they have been Republicans, with some few exceptions, 
notwithstanding they were the owners of slaves.  Elder Weaver was 
appointed postmaster at his place in 1880, and still in office.  Mary 
Etter, daughter of Elder Bird and Elizabeth E. Weaver, was born in Allen 
County, Ky., on the 11th day of April, 1867, receiving her education at 
the normal school, at Morgantown, Butler County.  She taught last fall, 
gave general satisfaction, and was considered competent.

Weaver Motley Bridges Austin Rickman Dopson Meredith
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Allen-KY Simpson-KY McLean-KY Muhlenberg-KY Ohio-KY MO VA

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