Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974. JOHN F. WEAVER -- was a son of Jacob and Margaret (DUNKLE) WEAVER, whose record has just been given, and he married Mollie E. FRAZIER, whose parents were John and Elizabeth (LUCAS) FRAZIER, whose record is also in the preceding sketch. John F. WEAVER was born in Centre County, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1839, and his wife was born in Washington County, Maryland, July 10, 1841. Their marriage was solemnized in Centre County, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1863, and their children were two: Edwin J., now in attendance at school in Concord, was born March 26, 1864; [ ] John F. WEAVER enlisted in Company E, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves, Federal army. He served twenty-two months, and then enlisted in Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving nine months. He was engaged in many of the hard-fought battles of the war, among them: Merchanicsville, Gaines Mills, Charles City, Cross Roads, in which he was wounded in the shoulder and taken prisoner. He was confined in Libby prison about four weeks, then paroled and sent to Fortress Monroe, where he lay five weeks in the hospital. He was sent thence to Annapolis, Maryland, then to Alexandria, and then he rejoined his regiment, November 10, 1862. He was then in the battle of Fredericksburg, December 11-13, and was wounded in the right thigh. He lay in Washington until he received discharge, February 22, 1863, from his first term of enlistment. During his second term of enlistment he was in the battle of Fort Stedman, and the charge on Petersburg April 2, 1865, and returned home June 5, 1865. He is a member of the Messiah Church and firmly holds to the doctrine taught in that church. His business is lumbering, his post office address Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, , 1998.