John Weber - G.A.R., Bishop Post

JOHN WEBER

of

Tiffin Township

This Civil War veteran, John Weber, was one of several men with the same name in Defiance County.  Born in Germany to Jacob and Doratha Weber on September 9, 1839, he came to America with his parents when he was quite young. 

In 1860, they were settled in German Township in Fulton County, Ohio.  John was the only child enumerated with them and he was 19.  His father did not own a farm, but he worked as a farm laborer.

John worked on a farm with his father until John enlisted into the 67th Ohio Infantry, Company I, on December 5, 1861.  He served three years until the same date in 1864 when he was discharged. The 67th Regiment, Company I, was made up of men mostly from Fulton County, and they participated in some of the worst battles of the war.  They began in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, but were soon moved under McClellan's command along the eastern coast to Charleston.

The Battle of Fort Wagner was one of their bloodiest battles.  The Ohio 67th fought alongside the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, and the Union losses were great.  This battle was depicted in the movie, "Glory."  

The regiment reenlisted in February 1864 and were then released for a thirty day furlough home.  Upon their return, they fought around Richmond and Petersburg and lost 76 men at the Battle of Cartlett's Station.  Near Petersburg, at the Battle of Deep Bottom, John was wounded in the side and arm in July, 1864.  

First Battle of Deep Bottom Battle Facts and Summary | American Battlefield Trust (battlefields.org)

Efforts to find this John Weber after the war in the 1870 and 1880 Fulton, Williams and Defiance County censuses were unsuccessful. A possible match was in an 1880 agricultural census of Franklin Township, Fulton County, Ohio. This John Weber had 45 tilled acres with 14 acres of wood.  Two acres of apple orchard with 100 trees graced this farm, valued at $3000.  

He next appeared in a marriage record in Defiance County when he married Mrs. Eliza Brown on April  17, 1887. John would have been about 48 years old. According to the 1910 census, Eliza was married three times, John being #3.

Around this time, he located to Evansport, Defiance County, Ohio, where he set up a furniture store business. 

 In the 1890 Veterans' Census of Tiffin Township, Defiance County, John Weber is listed as a member of the 67th Regiment, Company I, serving for three years.  His wounded side and arm are mentioned on this document.

John and Eliza remained in Evansport, owning a home there and running their furniture store. Eliza died in 1917, leaving John who was enumerated as a widower in the 1920 census. He was 79 and not employed.  John Weber passed away in 1923, leaving no children to survive him.

"EVANSPORT RESIDENT DIES AT ADVANCED AGE

John Weber Conducted Furniture and Undertaking Establishment 

Until Retirement

John Weber, resident of Evansport for thirty-five years, died at his home there last night, 84 years, due to infirmaties of age.

He came from Germany to this country with his parents when a year old.  He resided in Stryker and Archbold till 1890, when he moved to Evansport, where he conducted a furniture store and undertaking establishment until 1905, when he retired from business.  His wife died about seven years ago.

Mr. Weber was a Civil War veteran and member of Bishop Post G.A.R.  

A nephew, John Keller, of Millersburg, is the only survivor.

The funeral will be held Friday at 1 o'clock from the house and at 1:30 from Evansport M. E. church in charge of the G.A.R.  Services at the grave will be in charge of Evansport Lodge No. 408, I. O. O. F., of which he also was a member."

Lizzie Charlotte Fickle and Nathan Fuller, Farmer, Ohio, Obituaries

 "LIZZIE CHARLOTTE FICKLE

The largest funeral ever held at Farmer took place last Sunday afternoon when Mrs. Lizzie Charlotte Fickle, whose sad and sudden death shocked the whole community, was laid away in the beautiful and quiet cemetery about a mile from the town.

Mrs. Fickle was the daughter of Silas N. and Lilly I. Hulbert.  She was born in Milford Twp., Defiance Co., March 16th, 1886, and passed from the scenes of earth July 7th, 1904.  Up to the day before her death, she was in her usual good health.  On Wednesday, without a moment's warning, she was seized with convulsions.  Then followed blood poisoning with death the next day.

Mrs. Fickle was married Dec. 31st, 1903, to LeRoy Fickle and resided in Farmer Twp. until death called her to her reward.  She leaves four brothers and three sisters, besides her father and mother.  The community for miles around testified by their presence at the funeral to the esteem in which the deceased was held.  The many flowers in the home and in the church bore silent witness to the true sympathy extended to both families by a sorrowing community.

The funeral services were held in the Union Chapel at Farmer, Rev. John Campbell of the Lost Creek Presbyterian Church preached the sermon, taking for his text, Rev. 7:17.  "And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes."  The music furnished by the choir was very appropriate and comforting."

JOHN EVERITT

John Everitt was born in Columbia county, Pa., Feb. 9, 1817; from there with his parents moved to Licking couny, Ohio when but six months old; from thence at an early age of two years, with his parents moved to Morrow county, Ohio, where he grew into manhood and where his parents resided until the time of their deaths.

During his boyhood and early manhood, he was employed with work incident to the times and the hewing out of the wilderness a home, never having had the advantages of an education in his early days.  He had the privilege of only three months schooling during his boyhood, he however by close attention to books, and the literature of the times, became more than ordinarily familiar with the history and politics of the day.

On March 12, 1816, (*March 5, 1846) he was united in marriage with Martha McKinney by the Rev. Dodd, forming a contract sealed in love and with an affection that remained as warm and as pure to the end as when, buoyant with hope, life was a promise.

This union was blessed by seven children - G. D. Everitt who now resides at Toledo, Ohio, Melissa A. Cole who resides at Ithaca, Mich., John I. Everitt  of Chicago, Ill. , Martha E. Faber of Mendota, Ill., Frank J. Everitt of Schuyler, Neb., M. B. Everitt of Payne, Ohio, and Clara B. Austed of Peoria, Ohio, these all being present at the burial except John I. who lay sick at his home in Chicago.  Father Everitt having been the first to be called from the family circle, mother Everitt, his partner, sitting in the shadow of her great sorrow still languidly slowly travels toward the end of life's dark road.

Mr. Everitt left Pierceton and reached the farm upon which he resided at the time of his death, Augsut 16, 1856, and with the neighbors who lived near him, began the struggle that was to transform a wilderness into bloom and such a fine neighborhood; they deserve to be mentioned: the Clelands, the Hilberts, Forlows, Otises, Ridenours, Crarys, Reeders, Ensigns, Farmers, Coys and many other names synonymous with clean morality, lofty ideals, and pure motives.  A lock or a key was useless and seldom used.

Father Everitt has gone to his reward on Tuesday morning, June 24th, upon arising in the morning, he complained of pain which suddenly developed alarming symptoms, and on June 26 (1902), after having suffered almost more than he could bear, he peacefully passed away.  The road had been long and weary and he laid down to rest.  On Sunday following - the day he had always loved best - all that was mortal of him was borne to the Lost Creek Presbyterian church where it had been his wont for more than forty years to worship, and where the Sunday previous, he had led the congregation there assembled in humble prayer for their preservation and their salvation - here the largest concourse of friends and neighbors had come to pay the last tribute, their respect to the deceased that had ever gathered together at this place on any similar occasion.  After a few brief and touching remarks by his minister, the Rev. Dempster, he was borne by tender hands and laid in his last rest at the Farmer Cemetery."