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Genevra Annis “Jennie” <I>Wilhite</I> Weir

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Genevra Annis “Jennie” Wilhite Weir

Birth
Linn County, Missouri, USA
Death
11 Dec 1925 (aged 59)
Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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Genevra A. Wilhite Weir was a daughter of John Hamilton Wilhite and Mary Martha Mahalia Staley. She married Thomas Jefferson Weir on Jan 11,1883 Fairview Stafford County Kansas, Marriage conducted by Ezra Cram.

Note- some records and info found indicated her name was Geneva Alice. , but it is most likely incorrect. Cemetery Record and family also indicated her name was Genevra. Family called her Jennie, she liked to be called Jennie and the tombstone says Jennie.

She and her parents lived in Missouri until she was eight, when they moved with the family to Iowa , living there one year. Then with her parents she moved to Kansas and lived on the homestead near Stafford. She moved with her husband and children to Mt. Hope, Kansas where they lived for five years, then moving back to the old homestead where she resided until the last year of her life, which was under the care of her daughter Bertha Weir Rundell in Hutchinson, Kansas. She departed this life Dec 11, 1925. She leaves to mourn her loss, husband T.J. Weir, Stafford, daughter Bertha Rundell, Hutchinson, Earl Boyd Weir and Elbert Weir, Stafford, Claude Weir , Baton Rouge Louisiana, one sister Mae E. Brewer, Oklahoma City Ok, Four half brothers and half sister and many other relatives and a host of friends.

***She united with the Friends Church early in life and lived as a devoted Christian. She has gone to her heavenly mansion, the dear Lord has led her away, to glory mortals cant' dream of, where no night ends the beautiful day, and we are lonely. We miss her dear voice and her smiling face, her sympathy sweet and her love, our hearts are nigh broken with grief , as we scatter fair blossoms above, where she lies sleeping. Funeral services were Dec 18 at the Eureka Church and were conducted by Reverend W.B. Stevens of Hutchinson. Interment made at Stafford Cemetery
Genevra A. Wilhite Weir was a daughter of John Hamilton Wilhite and Mary Martha Mahalia Staley. She married Thomas Jefferson Weir on Jan 11,1883 Fairview Stafford County Kansas, Marriage conducted by Ezra Cram.

Note- some records and info found indicated her name was Geneva Alice. , but it is most likely incorrect. Cemetery Record and family also indicated her name was Genevra. Family called her Jennie, she liked to be called Jennie and the tombstone says Jennie.

She and her parents lived in Missouri until she was eight, when they moved with the family to Iowa , living there one year. Then with her parents she moved to Kansas and lived on the homestead near Stafford. She moved with her husband and children to Mt. Hope, Kansas where they lived for five years, then moving back to the old homestead where she resided until the last year of her life, which was under the care of her daughter Bertha Weir Rundell in Hutchinson, Kansas. She departed this life Dec 11, 1925. She leaves to mourn her loss, husband T.J. Weir, Stafford, daughter Bertha Rundell, Hutchinson, Earl Boyd Weir and Elbert Weir, Stafford, Claude Weir , Baton Rouge Louisiana, one sister Mae E. Brewer, Oklahoma City Ok, Four half brothers and half sister and many other relatives and a host of friends.

***She united with the Friends Church early in life and lived as a devoted Christian. She has gone to her heavenly mansion, the dear Lord has led her away, to glory mortals cant' dream of, where no night ends the beautiful day, and we are lonely. We miss her dear voice and her smiling face, her sympathy sweet and her love, our hearts are nigh broken with grief , as we scatter fair blossoms above, where she lies sleeping. Funeral services were Dec 18 at the Eureka Church and were conducted by Reverend W.B. Stevens of Hutchinson. Interment made at Stafford Cemetery


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