Weaversville

It’s been fun this year, got to discover some very interesting family background, Facebook became a new fashion, we lost Lily Rose, (not fun,) Uncle Bill went to Scotland, Cousin Kurt got thrown from a heart attack horse and is recovering from a broken pelvis, (ouch for sure,) the economy is, well, slowly rising from the ashes, and speaking of ashes, we have a ton of family history in the Ashe County North Caroline and now Georgia and Alabama areas of  Appalachia.  Discovered we are direct descendants of the Brus Family of France and England, also that our Weaver family name came from Wales and was originally spelled Wever.  We are cousins to Frank and Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, (Robert L. Parker,) Doc Holiday, Johnny Ringo, Woodrow Wilson, J.F.K, LBJ, Judy Garland, Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd, John Wesley Harding, Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton, Tom Landry, John Adams, Winchester and Browning, Hubble, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and well, the list goes on.  Check into ancestry.com under our family tree and you can get the info on all this from there.  Cousin Queen Elizabeth II is also on that list.  Happy New Year to you all.George

I can’t begin to fathom how our families have come together using “The Cloud” AKA the Internet, you know that thing Big Al Gore invented ha ha.

I started some time last year, or was it the year before I can’t quite remember now, creating a photo blog on weavervisions.com , then I found a script for one, then I found a better one on my host, then I found http://sharedweaverandfamilyphotos.ning.com/ then I created http://thebataandeathmarch.ning.com/ and a few others that have kept me busy this year.

Then I got busy on Father’s Day after Scott and Sarah purchased time on Scott Weaver’s Family Tree so I could spend countless hours chasing our family lineage which you are all welcome to visit and add your family lines to.

My goals have been aimed that way where I don’t get stuck with all the dirty work and get help from you all, (famous last words.)

We are a very big family with Persian Roshan and Eteshamsadah, African American Booker T. Washington, Polish Ingenfritz, German-Deutsch Ottinger and Welty, French relatives De Brus, Spanish relatives Valasquez, Mexican relatives Haro and I know I’ve just touched on the tip of the iceberg and we are all related through Adam and Eve, but these are more current and interesting connections I’ve enjoyed discovering.

(I noticed it seems to be off-putting to some people when I bring up our relations but our kids deserve to know the lines they came from and I know it has grounded me in world history and our own Canadian, Mexican, Texican, American relatives.)

I’m sure we have family on both sides of the Spanish-American war, the War of Independence, the Civil War, WWI and WWII. I was disappointed when I discovered we are related to the Ottingers who lived in the area I was stationed in in Germany near Bitburg AFB because I could have done some research there and maybe made contact with them.

My sons are related to Sir Walter Scott, George Bush, John F. Kennedy, Linden Baines Johnson, Johnny Ringo, Clyde Barrow (sp?), Frank and Jessie James, Butch Cassidy, John Wesley Harding, Booker T. Washington, Winchester and Browning,William Randolf Hurst, Howard Hughs, Robert Bruce my 10th great grandfather, and Robert Brus, Diego Valasquez. Robert Parker, Judy Garland.

The Quiesenburies are from Kentucky, Weavers go back to the Virginia Colonies to what is now the Raleigh North Carolina area. (It’s really hard to think in terms of “Virginia Colonies”.)

The Rutherfords came over to the Madrid area of New York, I think the Radfords came from England to Chester Iowa, a very small farming community where Lorena Radford and John Thomas Rutherford met and married.Then there is the Sanford side of the family who settled in the Horsehead, Broome County Upstate New York area, the Shearer family who are Pennsylvania Dutch, (Weakly’s on the Weaver side are also Pennsylvania Dutch,) Weaver’s migrated from NC, through the Ozarks, Tennessee, Missouri, Texas Panhandle, Demming NM, Nevada, and finally California.

Robertsons migrated from Hamilton Scotland, to Nova Scotia, Toronto Ontario, Dunchurch Ontario, Perry Sound, Selma (Robertson Dear Lake or Wawashkesh,) then Piosche Nevada, the Redlands California, Stanislaus California, (Patterson then Modesto,) then to Richmond, Berkley California.

My ancestors fought for and against Kind Edward Longshanks, for and against the Invading Roman Armies in the Borders area of Britain, and most recently against the Japanese in the Philippines and lived to tell about it after 42 months of torture, experimentation, exploitation against the Geneva Accords and every kind of tropical disease.

I do plan on updating this article as I get time and more information or think of more information so please keep coming back and check it out.

Disclaimer: I hereby relieve myself of all responsibility for misspellings of family or place names listed in this article. If you can correct them please contact me either by phone or email. If you are related you know how to reach me.

George Weaver

November 25th, 2009

Well,

Scott has done it again! While chatting we explored our familiar lines of famous people. We uncovered some interesting stuff to say the least. On the Weaver side Scott is related to Johnny Ringo, Frank James, Butch Cassidy and Clyde Barrow. He is also related to Woodrow Wilson and several writers. John Browning and William Randolf Hearst. The Browning family and the Winchester family are in our lineage. So, we can make guns, and shoot them well. This is all amusing but not to be taken seriously by me anyway. The Weavers are related to Sam Walton, and Randolf Hearst.

I was paging through the genealogy that Zipra Morgan sent me some years ago now and was amazed that much of our line of the Weavers are from Oklahoma. Some even from Kentucky. Zipra has invested a great deal in our family histories and should be commended on the job she has done. I will try to link to her web site on web as soon as I find it.

George