Son of Robert Orville Wier and Laura Grant. Grandson of Samuel and Jane Vance Lusk Wier. Great-grandson of Thomas Wier Jr. and Mary Withrow Wier.
The 1900 census gives his birth as Sept 1856.
He married 11 Feb 1886 in Pickens Co., Alabama, his first cousin, Fannie N. Wier, daughter of Swanzy Fidelous Wier and Frances (Fanny) N. Owen Wier, granddaughter of Samuel and Jane V. Lusk Wier. The ceremony was solemnized by J.H. Curry "at the home of the bride's father in said County" (Pickens County, Alabama). T.J. Ivie and A. S. Mullins signed as bondsmen on Feb. 5, 1886.
His sister Anna Wier married Fannie's brother, Benjamin S. Wier, and the two couples lived together in Bessemer in the 1920s. Anna later moved to Tampa, where she died.
John and Fannie Wier lived at 1824 19th St., Bessemer, and they had two sons:
1. William Owen Wier, born 11 Aug 1895 AL
2. John Louis Wier born 3 July 1900 AL (single in 1930)
John S. Wier also married Rachel V. Watson (born 1869 Georgia), had a daughter, Lillie Alice Wier (1889-1972)
in Florida, then married her cousin, Susie Watson, who had two children and lived in Tampa, Florida, where she was buried. She later married George Washington Tucker (b. 7 Sept. 1873).
Children of Susie Watson Wier (Weir):
Bertha Weir b. Dec. 1890 Fl died after 1930
Herbert Buewl Weir b. 15 Nov. 1892 d 1935
His death certificate says he was a carpenter and married to Fannie Wier. He died 11 May 1926 of pneumonia.
Buried in the John S. Wier plot, per the Cedar Hill office Records:
Fannie Wier - no dates (no marker found)
infant - no dates
John S. Wier - 1926 (no marker found)
Samuel Wier - 1902
Tom A. Wier 1905
Wm. P. Wier 1926 (no marker found)
Ben Wier and wife Anna (Wier) Wier are also buried at Cedar Hill.
John S. Wier and his brothers were house carpenters and thought to have built their own vacation homes in Tampa, Florida, where Rachel and Susie and children lived. According to the children, they were always told their father worked for the railroad and gone away most of the time. Relatives told Lille later that he was stabbed in a brawl in the 1890s and killed. John S. Wier's third cousin Thomas Milton Wier (son of James Stewart Wier, son of Thomas Hamilton Wier, son of James Wier Jr. & Mary Hamilton) dealt in real estate in Tampa and apparently encouraged his cousins in Alabama to buy property there; when John S. Wier's third wife Susie died, she was buried in Thomas Milton Wier's plot in Tampa.
The 1900 census gives his birth as Sept 1856.
He married 11 Feb 1886 in Pickens Co., Alabama, his first cousin, Fannie N. Wier, daughter of Swanzy Fidelous Wier and Frances (Fanny) N. Owen Wier, granddaughter of Samuel and Jane V. Lusk Wier. The ceremony was solemnized by J.H. Curry "at the home of the bride's father in said County" (Pickens County, Alabama). T.J. Ivie and A. S. Mullins signed as bondsmen on Feb. 5, 1886.
His sister Anna Wier married Fannie's brother, Benjamin S. Wier, and the two couples lived together in Bessemer in the 1920s. Anna later moved to Tampa, where she died.
John and Fannie Wier lived at 1824 19th St., Bessemer, and they had two sons:
1. William Owen Wier, born 11 Aug 1895 AL
2. John Louis Wier born 3 July 1900 AL (single in 1930)
John S. Wier also married Rachel V. Watson (born 1869 Georgia), had a daughter, Lillie Alice Wier (1889-1972)
in Florida, then married her cousin, Susie Watson, who had two children and lived in Tampa, Florida, where she was buried. She later married George Washington Tucker (b. 7 Sept. 1873).
Children of Susie Watson Wier (Weir):
Bertha Weir b. Dec. 1890 Fl died after 1930
Herbert Buewl Weir b. 15 Nov. 1892 d 1935
His death certificate says he was a carpenter and married to Fannie Wier. He died 11 May 1926 of pneumonia.
Buried in the John S. Wier plot, per the Cedar Hill office Records:
Fannie Wier - no dates (no marker found)
infant - no dates
John S. Wier - 1926 (no marker found)
Samuel Wier - 1902
Tom A. Wier 1905
Wm. P. Wier 1926 (no marker found)
Ben Wier and wife Anna (Wier) Wier are also buried at Cedar Hill.
John S. Wier and his brothers were house carpenters and thought to have built their own vacation homes in Tampa, Florida, where Rachel and Susie and children lived. According to the children, they were always told their father worked for the railroad and gone away most of the time. Relatives told Lille later that he was stabbed in a brawl in the 1890s and killed. John S. Wier's third cousin Thomas Milton Wier (son of James Stewart Wier, son of Thomas Hamilton Wier, son of James Wier Jr. & Mary Hamilton) dealt in real estate in Tampa and apparently encouraged his cousins in Alabama to buy property there; when John S. Wier's third wife Susie died, she was buried in Thomas Milton Wier's plot in Tampa.
Son of Robert Orville Wier and Laura Grant. Grandson of Samuel and Jane Vance Lusk Wier. Great-grandson of Thomas Wier Jr. and Mary Withrow Wier.
The 1900 census gives his birth as Sept 1856.
He married 11 Feb 1886 in Pickens Co., Alabama, his first cousin, Fannie N. Wier, daughter of Swanzy Fidelous Wier and Frances (Fanny) N. Owen Wier, granddaughter of Samuel and Jane V. Lusk Wier. The ceremony was solemnized by J.H. Curry "at the home of the bride's father in said County" (Pickens County, Alabama). T.J. Ivie and A. S. Mullins signed as bondsmen on Feb. 5, 1886.
His sister Anna Wier married Fannie's brother, Benjamin S. Wier, and the two couples lived together in Bessemer in the 1920s. Anna later moved to Tampa, where she died.
John and Fannie Wier lived at 1824 19th St., Bessemer, and they had two sons:
1. William Owen Wier, born 11 Aug 1895 AL
2. John Louis Wier born 3 July 1900 AL (single in 1930)
John S. Wier also married Rachel V. Watson (born 1869 Georgia), had a daughter, Lillie Alice Wier (1889-1972)
in Florida, then married her cousin, Susie Watson, who had two children and lived in Tampa, Florida, where she was buried. She later married George Washington Tucker (b. 7 Sept. 1873).
Children of Susie Watson Wier (Weir):
Bertha Weir b. Dec. 1890 Fl died after 1930
Herbert Buewl Weir b. 15 Nov. 1892 d 1935
His death certificate says he was a carpenter and married to Fannie Wier. He died 11 May 1926 of pneumonia.
Buried in the John S. Wier plot, per the Cedar Hill office Records:
Fannie Wier - no dates (no marker found)
infant - no dates
John S. Wier - 1926 (no marker found)
Samuel Wier - 1902
Tom A. Wier 1905
Wm. P. Wier 1926 (no marker found)
Ben Wier and wife Anna (Wier) Wier are also buried at Cedar Hill.
John S. Wier and his brothers were house carpenters and thought to have built their own vacation homes in Tampa, Florida, where Rachel and Susie and children lived. According to the children, they were always told their father worked for the railroad and gone away most of the time. Relatives told Lille later that he was stabbed in a brawl in the 1890s and killed. John S. Wier's third cousin Thomas Milton Wier (son of James Stewart Wier, son of Thomas Hamilton Wier, son of James Wier Jr. & Mary Hamilton) dealt in real estate in Tampa and apparently encouraged his cousins in Alabama to buy property there; when John S. Wier's third wife Susie died, she was buried in Thomas Milton Wier's plot in Tampa.
The 1900 census gives his birth as Sept 1856.
He married 11 Feb 1886 in Pickens Co., Alabama, his first cousin, Fannie N. Wier, daughter of Swanzy Fidelous Wier and Frances (Fanny) N. Owen Wier, granddaughter of Samuel and Jane V. Lusk Wier. The ceremony was solemnized by J.H. Curry "at the home of the bride's father in said County" (Pickens County, Alabama). T.J. Ivie and A. S. Mullins signed as bondsmen on Feb. 5, 1886.
His sister Anna Wier married Fannie's brother, Benjamin S. Wier, and the two couples lived together in Bessemer in the 1920s. Anna later moved to Tampa, where she died.
John and Fannie Wier lived at 1824 19th St., Bessemer, and they had two sons:
1. William Owen Wier, born 11 Aug 1895 AL
2. John Louis Wier born 3 July 1900 AL (single in 1930)
John S. Wier also married Rachel V. Watson (born 1869 Georgia), had a daughter, Lillie Alice Wier (1889-1972)
in Florida, then married her cousin, Susie Watson, who had two children and lived in Tampa, Florida, where she was buried. She later married George Washington Tucker (b. 7 Sept. 1873).
Children of Susie Watson Wier (Weir):
Bertha Weir b. Dec. 1890 Fl died after 1930
Herbert Buewl Weir b. 15 Nov. 1892 d 1935
His death certificate says he was a carpenter and married to Fannie Wier. He died 11 May 1926 of pneumonia.
Buried in the John S. Wier plot, per the Cedar Hill office Records:
Fannie Wier - no dates (no marker found)
infant - no dates
John S. Wier - 1926 (no marker found)
Samuel Wier - 1902
Tom A. Wier 1905
Wm. P. Wier 1926 (no marker found)
Ben Wier and wife Anna (Wier) Wier are also buried at Cedar Hill.
John S. Wier and his brothers were house carpenters and thought to have built their own vacation homes in Tampa, Florida, where Rachel and Susie and children lived. According to the children, they were always told their father worked for the railroad and gone away most of the time. Relatives told Lille later that he was stabbed in a brawl in the 1890s and killed. John S. Wier's third cousin Thomas Milton Wier (son of James Stewart Wier, son of Thomas Hamilton Wier, son of James Wier Jr. & Mary Hamilton) dealt in real estate in Tampa and apparently encouraged his cousins in Alabama to buy property there; when John S. Wier's third wife Susie died, she was buried in Thomas Milton Wier's plot in Tampa.
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