History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 475, Banner Township
Zechariah Weaver, merchant, Monterey; P. O., Canton. His parents
were Jatob {Jacob?} and Jane (Patchell), the former a native of
Virginia, and the latter of Pennsylvania and died Nov. 2, 1840. They
emigrated from Ohio to this State, arriving Nov. 8, 1841. Zechariah was
born in Hamilton Co., O., Nov. 30, 1830, educated in the country
schools, and March 8, 1854, married Rachel A. Rogers in Liverpool tp.;
she was born in Saline Co., Mo., Sept. 18, 1830. Children: Benj. F.,
born 1858, and died 1864; Maria, Feb. 21, 1861, died in 1862; Emma
Jane, April 18, 1862. Mr. W. was formerly a farmer and has been School
Director and Pastmaster {Postmaster}. Methodist Protestant. Democrat.
