| Show funeral services service of W B weaver largely attended LAST DAYS WERE THOSE OF or INTENSE SUFFERING WHICH WERE RELIEVED ONLY BY caal OP or DEATHS REAPER on tuesday march 17 W B We weaver a resident of ashley valley tor for the past thirty five years passed pa seed away at his homo home in vernal heldi funeral services were held on thur thursday aday march 19 in the congregational gregat ional church after singing jesus lover of 31 my y sou 1 the invocation was offered by W 8 S merkley A mixed quartette composed of A B thomas A G goodrich clela wolcott and mrs airs J F chapman sang abide with me bic bishop IT I T B D calder paid a glowing ing tribute to ahe the honesty and integrity bf the deceased such men who ho have fought their own ovin way through life and have won their way through determined an and d honest effort are gre the pacemakers and backbone of our citizenry we do well to honor them and to emulate their footsteps IT walter woolley recalled the reverence with va which aich the young people regarded mr weaver due ia to many kindly attributes and to the fatherly interest which he on n a all 11 occasion s exhibited in their re regard g a r d mr weavers friends he lie said were numbered by his acquaintances and in his passing one of staunch citizens and one of natures builders has gone to his rest we have all lost a friend mrs chapman and A G goodrich Go olrich sang a duet my aly father knows after which the benediction was pronounced by leo thorne all sections of the valley were represented in the funeral cortege that followed to the vernal cemetery where the remains were interred H B calder dedicated the grave W B weaver was born at white Ws water ar wisconsin on november 7 1853 both his father and mother had died before he was 9 years of age and he lived the early part of his life with an older sister in rochester new york after reaching maturity he followed horace greeleys advice and started west after stopping in i clinton mississippi for one one year he continued on om to the gold fields of cripple creek and the silver lead mines of leadville and for twelve years he lived in these districts in the early and turbulent stages of their history on december 25 1 1889 he married miss bliss mattie mattle carr and a nd bought himself a ranch rauch in garfield county colorado where he lived for two years during these two years ho he was foreman of the aa cattle company in 1892 mr weaver was elected county as assessor seasor of garfield county which office he held for twp terms later he was a member of nit the glenwood springs city council for one term i on December 31 1903 mr weaver moved to vernal where he has since resided mr and mrs weaver bad no children his widow and one brother who lives in detroit michigan survive him |
