John Mandville Weems (1794 - 1843)

Born 1794 in Hillsborough Township, Orange, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Rhoda (Munsey) Carter — married about 1836 in Lebanon, Russell, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Nov 1843 at about age 49 in Burkesville, Cumberland County Kentucky

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Biography

John was born in 1794, the son of John Weems, Jr and Sarah Jones. He became a Methodist preacher in 1828 when he was admitted to Houston Methodist Conference.

John married Martha Gass in 1830 in Greene County, Tennessee. They were parents of two children:

1. Sarah Margaret (Weems) Adams 1831-1890
2. George Akin Weems 1834-1904

Martha died about 1835. Shortly after her death, while visiting at the home of David Munsey in Russell County Virginia, “a haven for itinerant Methodist preachers”, he met and married David’s daughter, Rhoda Munsey.

He and Rhoda returned to Greene County, Tennessee where they had four children:

1. David Patton Weems 1838-1912
2. Mary Ann (Weems) Snyder 1839-1906
3. Nancy Catherine (Weems) Williams, aka Culp 1840-1929
4. Martha Matilda (Weems) Dotson, aka Eagle 1844-1922

In 1843, John died in Cumberland County, Kentucky while the family was enroute from Greene County, Tennessee to southwest Missouri to join John’s older brother, Jones Weems. Rhoda continued on to Newton County, Missouri where she married widower Ezekiel Carter.

John’s burial place is unknown.

Slaves

John Weems had one female slave between the ages of 20-23 listed on the 1840 census.

Sources

• "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ7G-CQP : 9 March 2021), Jno Weems and Martha Gass, 21 Jan 1830; citing Greene, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 3125, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,148,737.

• United States Census, 1840, https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/4894212?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a227a39725351457648415462646d31774133714b78617038532f6c7745493259685764376d78565561557a633d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

• Find A Grave: Memorial #105372565

• “Rhoda Munsey Weems Carter, a pioneer Methodist mother of the upper south” by John Denton Carter, pub Biloxi, Mississippi, 1977, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/49332/?offset=#page=2&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q