Jacob Weaver

WEAVER GROSH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/15/2010 at 22:35:15

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Jacob Weaver
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In 1867 ten years after the founding of Sioux City, Jacob and Mary Grosh Weaver came to Wolf Creek Township, Woodbury County. Jacob, born January 16, 1838, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, had served ten months, July 24, 1862-May 24, 1863, in Company C of the 135 Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. The Regiment was organized during the Civil War at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, under Colonel James R Porter and served provost duty in Washington and Georgetown under February of 1863. Jacob became one of eight corporals in this unit. In February, the 135th joined the army of the Potomac and was involved in confrontations at Pollack’s Mill Creek. Fitzhugh’s Crossing and the Battle of Chancellorsville. After an honorable medical discharge, Jacob married Mary Grosh on July 5, 1863, in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Mary’s parents were early settlers in Arlington Township, settling there in about 1866. In 1868, David S Grosh established a post office known as Wolf Dale, four and one-half miles east of Moville. In 1890 this post office was moved to Section 16 of Wolf Creek Township and still held the name of Wolf Dale.

Jacob and Mary, who was born July 20, 1842, in Pennsylvania, traveled by train to Denison, Iowa, where the Grosh family members met them with a team and wagon. Jacob was granted title to 144 acres of land December 15, 1873, adding more parcels of land through the years. Jacob and Mary raised a family of ten children on their homestead. Their ten children were:

Susie Leona, born February 5, 1863, died 1943;

Anna E, born March 1865, died 1977;

Mary B, born July 18, 1867, died 1951;

Lydia, born June 23, 1869, died July 5, 1935;

Katie, born September 17, 1871; died August 30, 1973;

John Franklin, born January 17, 1874; died April 2, 1954;

Effie, born March 21, 1876, died September 28, 1877;

David E, born August 1, 1878, died 1947;

William H, born November 9, 1880, died April 13, 1940; and

Omer, born December 20, 1882, died February 6, 1956.
After Jacob’s death on July 30, 1899, John and David Weaver farmed the family land for a couple of years in the early 1900s.

John Franklin, continued farming on the family farm after Mary’s death in October 1927. John married Gertie G Hamilton, April 24, 1901, in Sioux City. Gertie’s father, Duncan Hamilton, was an early mayor and store owner in Moville, around 1900. John and Gertie, born September 29, 1882, died March1963, had five children surviving infancy:

Howard, born 1901, died 1925; Bernice, born May 23, 1904; Gretta, born March 5, 1908, died 1957; Dale Hamilton, born August 7, 1914; and his twin sister, Dorothy Helen, born August 7, 1914, died September 17, 1979.

On May 27, 1945, Dale married Doris Speke, who was born January 14, 1919, and remained on the Weaver homestead, raising four children:

JoEllen, born July 9, 1947, married Larry Etler, July 8, 1967, and they have two children, Beth Cristine, born October 5, 1973, and Luke Hamilton, born July 17, 1976;
John Kevin, born April 3, 1949, has one daughter, Ann Elizabeth, born May 31, 1972. John married Diane Rogers, February 13, 1983, in Sioux City. They are the parents of Cassie Ann, born November 4, 1983. They live in Arlington Township near the old Wolf Dale post office which John’s great, great grandfather Grosh established.
Barbara Sue, born May 1, 1950, married Robert C Neustrom on September 12, 1970, and lives in Moville.
Brian Dale, born May 29, 1953, married Debra Halgerson, October 16, 1976 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. John and Brian continue to farm with Dale the original Jacob Weaver homestead of 144 acres, in addition to the four acres they have obtained over the years.