Amos Edwin Weaver Sr. (abt. 1805 - 1889)

Born about 1805 in North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Martha E Hammer — married 11 Aug 1852 in Davidson, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 1889 at about age 84 in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Johnson, Hicks and allied families, genealogical and biographical, by American Historical Society, 1930:

AMOS WEAVER, probably son of Adam Weaver, was born in North Carolina, in 1805. At an early age, he was left an orphan and was bound to Colonel Austin, of Davie County, North Carolina, and learned the trade of tanner. His lot at this time was very hard, and oftentimes in the winter, being sent out to feed the stock in his bare feet, he would get such warmth as was to be had by thrusting them into a shuck-rick. Of schooling, he had only six weeks, yet he educated himself after he became grown and got to be a fairly good Latin scholar. Lie first entered the ministry of the Methodist church. About the period of his twenty-sixth year he went into politics. He was of a Democratic turn of mind, in opposition to the old Federal or Whig element, and he determined to espouse the cause of the common people. He was elected in 1831 to represent Guilford County in the Lower House of the North Carolina Legislature, and was reelected for the ensuing term. His seat, however, was vacated under Clause Thirty-one of the Constitution of North Carolina, which forbade a minister of the Gospel from occupying a seat in a representative capacity in that body. On his return to the ministry he became a leading Baptist minister in the Sandy Creek Church, and was the founder of the First Baptist Church, of Greensboro, North Carolina. His grandson, Dr. Rufus W. Weaver, informs us he was a most forceful preacher of the old style. When, after he had proceeded for about a half-hour in the pulpit, he began to weep copiously from his emotion, and there after to the end of his sermon the tears literally ran down his cheeks. He was a missionary in the Sandy Creek Association, a group of churches, which was the oldest and most famous of all the Baptist associations in the State.

As Amos Weaver was a minister of the gospel, he was necessarily domiciled at different periods in several counties, being a “pioneer preacher,” traveling a great deal, preaching in even the court-houses and “'brush arbors.” It is for this reason that at the time of the census taking it was difficult to locate him.

Amos Weaver was pastor of a number of churches, and organized some. He was the pastor of Jersey Church and Abbott’s Creek Church in Davidson County, living at Lexington, North Carolina, at the time. For about four years he was pastor of Mount Zion Church at Alamance County, and from there moved into Chatham County, where for several years, about the time of the War between the States, he was pastor of a church called Noon’s Chapel. At the close of the war he moved to Johnston County, and was pastor of the Smithfield Church for a while. From there he again moved, this time to a farm about a mile from Clayton and lived there until he was quite old, and then went to Little Rock. Arkansas.

At Clayton he was pastor of several county churches, among them Johnston Liberty, Baptist Center, which church he organized. He was considered a very able preacher in his day. Though he had given up his regular work of the ministry he still preached once in a while in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was in Little Rock that he died, and was buried there at the age of eighty-four.

In the census of 1870, for Clayton Township, Johnston County, North Carolina, we find him as born in North Carolina, then aged sixty-four; with his wife Martha, aged thirty-five; and his children Betty, William, James, Edwin, Joseph, Robert Harrison, Minnie, Sally, and “Charly.”

Amos Weaver married (first) Carolina Louisa Tomlinson, daughter of Susan Tomlinson, who was the daughter of William and Susan (Young) Gill. William Gill was an officer of the staff of General Washington in the Revolutionary War. He married (second) Martha E. Hamner, daughter of a Baptist minister of Lexington, North Carolina.

Sources

• http://sciway3.net/clark/gill/JudithGill.html

• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTV-SWQ : 24 August 2015), Amos Weaver, Iredell, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 203, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 363; FHL microfilm 18,094.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4B8-79D : 9 November 2014), Amos Weaver, Iredell county, Iredell, North Carolina, United States; citing family 809, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW8N-JB8 : 17 October 2014), Amos Weever, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 32, family 290, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,644.

• Year: 1880; Census Place: Clayton, Johnston, North Carolina; Roll: 969; Family History Film: 1254969; Page: 336A; Enumeration District: 155; Image: 0209

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2R1-D3C1 : 3 February 2017), Amos Weaver and Martha E. Hamner, 11 Aug 1852; citing North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 422,158.

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8DB-TVD : 22 December 2016), Amos Weaver in entry for Joseph L. Johnson and Susanna E. Weaver, 22 Dec 1870; citing , Johnston, North Carolina, United States, p. I 1, Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 1,759,192.

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8D1-MML : 22 December 2016), Amos Weaver in entry for E. B. Atkinson and Minnie ... Weaver, 18 Jan 1883; citing , Clayton, North Carolina, United States, p. p A2, Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 1,759,192.

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJQ-PSK7 : 22 December 2016), Amos Weaver in entry for Amos Edwin Weaver and Mary Halsey Geargain, 28 Sep 1882; citing Wake, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 2,312,853.

• "Georgia Deaths, 1914-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDJD-V6D : 24 December 2014), Amos Weaver in entry for Minnie Weaver Atkinson, 31 May 1927, Macon, Bibb, Georgia, United States; citing reference 10182, Department of Archives and History, Atlanta; FHL microfilm 2364788.

• "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q234-H8WV : 20 May 2016), Amos Weaver in entry for Charles S Weaver, 16 Apr 1939; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=171937087&ref=acom

• American Historical Society. Johnson, Hicks and allied families, genealogical and biographical : prepared and privately printed for Elizabeth Hicks Johnson New York 1930. See IV Amos Weaver on pages 36-41.