Margaret Weaver
1812 - 1891 (79 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Margaret Weaver was born on 11 May 1812 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio (daughter of George Weaver and Elizabeth Hempleman); died on 07 Sep 1891 in Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Residence: Farm of Henry Morris
- Census: 1880, Monroe Township, Allen County, Ohio
Notes:
Von Hof Erbert or Hofferbert Family History
by Florence Hofferbert Brenneman
A letter of Margaret Weaver Morris, (date and recipient unknown)
“We started for our new home October 2, 1832, with a yoke of oxens, a team of horses and a cow, which we had no trouble with for she followed the oxens. We had very little trouble from my father’s home to Bellefontaine as the path or road was wide enough for our wagons, but o the mud was deep, or so we thought then. We were told there was a good road cut through the forest to a small place called Lima, northwest of Bellefontaine, but this was not so. There was a path most of the way, but only wide enough for a horse or one man to walk through. We spent many days, and yes weeks, cutting down trees and dragging them out of the way, and then the mud was hub deep. It was bitter cold before we reached Lima. And when we did reach Lima we were a little disappointed, it was nothing but swamp. There were four families and a bachelor living in Lima. We met them all, they came cutting into the forest to meet us. I guess they were as glad to see us as we were to see them. I’ll never forget them. I was so afraid they would be the last white people I would see for a long time as my husband wanted to go north till he found good land. Their names were, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Brown, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cole, Dr. and Mrs. William Cunningham, Mr. John Brewster and a baby girl, daughter of the Brown’s. Of all that we had to go through I believe the hardest for me was to leave Lima, not because it was beautiful, but because of the people. Maybe I should write something in this letter about Lima, I have already told you about the people, so I’ll tell you about the corn mill that was there. It was a stump of a big trees center burned out and a log attached to the end of a young sapling bent over to act as a pestle. It worked alright but it took a day, from sunrise to sunset to convert a bushel of corn into samp. There was no newspaper, no inlet or outlet either by rail or earth. There was one small creek, where Indians had learned to raise hogs and drove the hogs to the creek to water each day and so the Indians called it Keshko sepe, meaning hog river and the white men called it Hog Creek. That was Lima, Ohio. We tried to find a path cut through to the north but they told us there wasn’t any, that no one but Indians were north of Lima and their paths went in from some other way. There was a family that went west of Lima that same year and settled on something that sounded like sugar creek. But my husband wasn’t going west, he was going north, so we came north. I knew we did not come straight north as some of the trees were too big for us to cut so we went around them. But the road we cut was traveled by many a settler and is still being used as a road. It was winter when we finally reached a ridge of good farming land. We staked off 160 acres of this government land on the ridge and paid $1.25 per acre for it. We built a house 16 ft. square out of poles and my husband chink and daub the house. We built a fire in one end of it, allowing the smoke to go out of the house through the cracks and crevices. The door was also the window, as it grew colder, much below zero, my husband fashioned a door of poles, and made hinges of hides. We lived this way for a year. We then built a log cabin with puncheon floor, and a square hole with paper pasted over it for a window. This was equal to the finest home in these parts.
We brought three barrels of flour with us which lasted a year, with corn meal. We had plenty of wild meat, such as deer and turkey, and we gathered wild berries. But I remember one winter, I think it was in 1834 as George was just a baby, we were without bread for four months, as the nearest place we could get grinding done was Cherokee, in Logan county, or Sidney in Shelby county. But we had plenty of pumpkins and squashes and a few potatoes. My husband worked hard clearing the ridge and as soon as we would get a spot cleared we would plant it. The country was beautiful here, but I did get lonesome for other people. My husband, Henry, was born in Kentucky, the son of Joseph and Lavina, and he knew nothing but fighting the Indians or making friends with them and clearing forest. He was a small boy when he came to Ohio with his father but he remembers it so clearly and how he worked with his father to cut a road from the Ohio River to Oldtown and then to their homestead near South Charleston, Ohio.
O, the joy I felt when one day Henry was out hunting for meat for our dinner and he was east on the ridge and he thought he saw a piece of white cloth blowing in the wind through the trees. He went very quickly to see what it could be and discovered we had neighbors. After almost four years of loneliness we had neighbors. Their name was Turner and they had taken up a homestead a few miles to the east of us. They were as glad to see us as we were to see them. A few days after this our first little girl was born and we named her Elizabeth.”
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65300077/margaret-morrisMargaret married Henry Morris on 30 Aug 1832 in London, Madison County, Ohio. Henry (son of Joseph M. Morris and Lavina Drake) was born on 14 Apr 1806 in Bracken County, Kentucky; died on 08 Jan 1877 in Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Met at church. Were married in Margaret's home, the finest home in the state of Ohio.- George Morris was born on 02 Oct 1833 in Allen County, Ohio; died on 16 Oct 1927 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Elizabeth Morris was born on 28 Sep 1835 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 31 Aug 1923 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Lavina Morris was born on 3 Apr 1837 in Allen County, Ohio; died on 10 Nov 1857 in Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Dr. Joseph Morris was born on 10 Dec 1838 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 24 Jan 1902 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Sarah Morris was born on 06 Oct 1840 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 04 Apr 1864; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Henry Morris was born on 3 Dec 1842 in Ohio; died on 30 Apr 1895 in Watonwan County, Minnesota; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Saint James, Watonwan County, Minnesota.
- Mary Morris was born on 05 Aug 1845 in Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio; died on 10 Oct 1902 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- John Benjamin Morris was born on 22 Jul 1847 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 19 Nov 1895 in Neosho Falls, Woodson County, Kansas; was buried in Cedarvale Cemetery, Neosho Falls, Woodson County, Kansas.
- Ellen Morris was born on 25 Jul 1849 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 11 Nov 1923 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Catherine Morris was born on 7 Aug 1851 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 25 May 1934 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
2. George Weaver was born in 1774 in Hardy County, Virginia; died in 1829 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; was buried in Weaver Burying Ground, Pike Township, Madison County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Residence: 1808, Clark County, Ohio
Notes:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151408179/george-weaver
The cemetery is located on the Weaver farm near Little Darby Creek in the southeast corner of the Pike Township, Madison County, Ohio, and is # 7153 (Weaver Cemetery) in “Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003”, compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151408179/george-weaverGeorge married Elizabeth Hempleman in 1800 in Hardy County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of George Hempleman and Margaret Duffy) was born in 1777 in Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died in 1870 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; was buried in Weaver Burying Ground, Pike Township, Madison County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Elizabeth Hempleman was born in 1777 in Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (daughter of George Hempleman and Margaret Duffy); died in 1870 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; was buried in Weaver Burying Ground, Pike Township, Madison County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Residence: 1808, Clark County, Ohio
- Census: 1860, Pike Township, Madison County, Ohio; In the household of her son, Jacob Weaver.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151408230/elizabeth-weaverChildren:
- Catherine Weaver was born in 1800.
- Elizabeth Weaver was born on 25 Nov 1800 in Virginia; died on 10 Aug 1881 in DeWitt County, Illinois; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, DeWitt County, Illinois.
- Jacob Weaver was born on 2 Apr 1802 in Virginia; died on 24 Jun 1861 in Madison County, Ohio; was buried in Weaver Burying Ground, Pike Township, Madison County, Ohio.
- Solomon F. Weaver was born on 28 Sep 1803 in Fayette County, West Virginia; died on 24 Jan 1884 in Clintonia Township, DeWitt County, Illinois; was buried in Weaver Cemetery, Clinton, DeWitt County, Illinois.
- John Weaver was born on 18 May 1807 in Hardy, Bedford County, Virginia; died in Mar 1894 in Madison County, Ohio; was buried in Guy Cemetery, Rosedale, Madison County, Ohio.
- George Weaver was born on 14 Dec 1810 in Madison County, Ohio; died on 24 Sep 1899 in Kenney, DeWitt County, Illinois; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, DeWitt County, Illinois.
- 1. Margaret Weaver was born on 11 May 1812 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; died on 07 Sep 1891 in Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Sarah Weaver was born on 9 Feb 1814 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; died on 10 Mar 1881 in Monroe Township, Madison County, Ohio; was buried in Kirkwood Cemetery, London, Madison County, Ohio.
- David Weaver
- Mary Maria Weaver was born on 1 Jan 1817 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; died on 5 Jan 1911 in Schuyler County, Missouri; was buried in Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Schuyler County, Missouri.
Generation: 3
6. 
George Hempleman was born in 1732 in Hesse Kassel, Germany (son of Lord Hempleman); died in 1842 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Military: Revolutionary War. Private in Captain William Johnson's company, 10th battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania militia.
- Emigration: 1752, Richmond, Virginia
- Residence: 1808, Clark County, Ohio
Notes:
A Brief History of the Hempleman Family in America By George Whiteley
George Hempleman, one of the founders of the Hempleman family of America, was born in Hesssie Castle, Germany in the year 1732. He was the son of Lord Hempleman of Germany and had he stayed in Germany would have taken the title of his father, but love is blind and more precious than gold or title. He had fallen in love with Margarette Duffy, she had stolen his hearty and he vowed to marry her. This he could not do and live in Germany, for she was poor and a daughter of one of the peasants living on one of the farms of Lord Hempleman. He a peer, and she a peasant’s daughter, they could not marry out of their station, so they planned to go to America, the land of the free. Little did they know of the hardships that were ahead of them, or perhaps their stout hearts would have failed; but this they knew not, and together ran away, or as we say today, eloped. They could get along well so long as they were on land, for they could earn their way, but when they reached the ocean another obstacle faced them. They had no money to pay for their transportation, but they arranged with a company there to carry they to America, by them agreeing to allow this company to sell them after they landed in America to the party or parties that would pay this company the price of their transportation, they to work for this party until their passage money was earned. A bargain was made with this company and they sailed for America. There were no steamer in those days and the vessels were crude and their voyage was stormy and hard, but not half so hard as when they landed, for they landed in Richmond, Va., in 1752, strangers in a strange land, and among strangers, to find that they were to be sold like black slaves into slavery or servitude to pay for their transportation. They had not yet married, perhaps thinking not best to do so, until all things were settled here in America.
George Hempleman was sold at auction to a cotton planter in one of the Carolinas, Margarette Duffy was sold to a tobacco planter near Richmond, Va. After the sale it must have been a bitter parting to those two young people, neither knew whether they would ever see each other again, for in this strange land they knew not where they were going.
It is the understanding of the writer that their time of servitude was four years each, but before the separation, which must have been heart-rending, they agreed that after their servitude was finished they should each return to Richmond, Va. their starting place: and their meeting point was to be the Little Old St. John’s church, which is an Episcopal church, the one in which Patrick Henry afterward made his famous speech before the Revolutionary war, when the leading men of Virginia met in this church and Patrick Henry made his famous speech in which he said “give me liberty or give me death,” and this so fired their hearts and upon this Virginia seceded from the crown, and cast her lot with the colonies. This church is still preserved on account of this event, and they yet hold services in this church. It was the good fortune of the writer, a few years ago, to visit this old church and photograph same, also the grave of the minister that afterwards married George Hempleman and Margarette Duffy after their return from servitude, and the writer is proud of the privilege of presenting to the Hempleman family a cut of this sacred little old church and grave. Also a cut of the tree at the spring where George Hempleman with his son George and family camped in 1808, the first night when they reached Clarke County, Ohio. The old elm tree is still standing and leans over the hole where once there was a famous spring.
George Hempleman fell in cruel hands and when he returned he was broken in health. Margarette Duffy was more fortunate, she fell in good hands and being used to hard work fared better. Neither heard of each other until their time of servitude had expired: but true to their promise, each started for Richmond and the little old church. Margarette Duffy being only a short distance from Richmond, reached there first, and went direct to the old St. John’s church, attending every service regularly, hoping soon to see her lover return. Time wore on and she almost lost hope of every seeing him again. Finally, one cold crisp morning as she sat watching every passer through the door, she saw a stout young German man coming through the door, pause for a moment, look around, seemingly looking for someone that he did not see, then he sat down, and drew from his hands a pair of white mittens, and laid them across his knees: immediately Margarette Duffy recognized those mittens as the ones she had knit in Germany and gave to her lover, George Hempleman. Time had wrought such changed in those two young folks that it was no wonder that neither knew the other, but at the close of the service, those two wanderers were reunited. What a happy reunion for them this must have been. They were married in the little old church in 1756. The grave of the minister that united these two young Germans lies at the east door of this little old church as you will see in the cut.
Soon after this they moved into Pennsylvania, and settled within three miles of Philadelphia, and the following children were born to them: Elizabeth, George, Katherine and Nancy.
When the war broke out between the Colonies and England George Hempleman cast his lot with the Colonies and enlisted in Capt. Wm. Johnson’s company, fourth battalion of the Lancaster militia in 1781. Battalion commander not stated. (Reference Effie Hempleman, Springfield, Ohio) And at the close of the war was honorably discharged.
After the war George Hempleman and family moved to North Carolina, and from there to Hardy County, Virginia. George Hempleman, in 1805, lost his wife, and she was buried in Hardy County, Virginia. In 1808, George Hempleman in company with his son George and family and his daughter Elizabeth, who had married George Weaver, started for Ohio with two wagons. The mountain roads were rough and they had not gotten far until one of their wagons fell over the mountain side and the team was killed and wagon lost. They gathered up what they could and loaded into the other wagon and all went afoot, and somewhere on the route this wagon was also lost and had to be abandoned. The bedding and what they could gather up was strapped onto the horses and the men and children carried what they could, and in the fall of 1808 reached Clarke County, Ohio, and camped for the first night on Masses Creek, two miles south of South Charleston, Clarke County, Ohio. They camped near the old spring near the Samuel Briggs farm, made famous by the number of people that camped at that spring on their way from the East to Ohio. A cut of the old Elm tree that stood by this famous spring is shown in this pamphlet, and the tree is still standing.
Near by this spring lived Samuel Briggs. That evening, Mrs. Briggs sent her son Samuel with a bucket full of milk and some provisions to those campers. Among the children was one called Elizabeth, daughter of George Hempleman, Jr. who afterwards became the wife of this boy, Samuel Briggs, who carried the milk and provisions to them.
The Hempleman and Weaver families moved on a few miles west of South Charleston and there located on the Little Miami river. The country was then in a wilderness. Their first shelter was poles fastened like a roof and covered with grass, and they gathered leaves for a bed, and so lived until houses could be built.
George Hempleman, Sr. lived with his son George until he died in the year 1842, at the age of 110 years, and was buried at South Charleston, Ohio.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17973167/george-hemplemanGeorge married Margaret Duffy in 1756 in Richmond, Virginia. Margaret was born in 1730 in Germany; died in 1805 in Hardy County, Virginia; was buried in Hardy County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Margaret Duffy was born in 1730 in Germany; died in 1805 in Hardy County, Virginia; was buried in Hardy County, Virginia. Other Events:
- Emigration: 1752, Richmond, Virginia
Children:
- 3. Elizabeth Hempleman was born in 1777 in Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died in 1870 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; was buried in Weaver Burying Ground, Pike Township, Madison County, Ohio.
- George Hempleman, Jr. was born in 1779 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died on 12 Jun 1853 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; was buried in Methodist Cemetery, South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio.
- Catherine Hempleman was born in 1775; died in 1815.
- Nancy Hempleman
Generation: 4
12. Lord Hempleman Children:
- 6. George Hempleman was born in 1732 in Hesse Kassel, Germany; died in 1842 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio; was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio.