Sunday, July 17, 2016

Levi R Weeks and Lydia Sleeper

Levi R. Weeks
Parents:  Benjamin Weeks and Sarah Weed

Born April 1793  Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire
Occupation:  Gardener (1860) Liveryman 
Married Lydia Sleeper 9 June 1814 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Children:  Harrison, George, Lydia, Sarah, Benjamin, Lafayette, Harriet, Maryann, Ruth, George
Died 1876 Orono, Penobscot, Maine
Buried
Sources
New Hampshire Marriage Records FHL Film# 1001315
Ancestry.com
1840 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine
1850 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 57)
1860 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 67, son Benjamin and his second wife Amanda is there)
1870 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine ( age 77, son Benjamin and wife still there)
New Hampshire Marriage Record

Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527 
Picture: His father's will 


Lydia Sleeper
Parents?
Born 16 March 1795 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Died before 1880 Census
Buried
Sources
1850 US Census for Orono, Penobscot, Maine
1860 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 65)
1870 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 75)
CHILDREN

Harrison Gray Otis Weeks
Born 23 December 1814 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Died (age 7) 23 April 1822 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Sources
Picture of headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83557268





George Weeks
Born 29 March 1818 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Died 4 Feb 1821 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Sources
Picture of headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83568998






Lydia Weeks
Born 26 April 1820  Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Married ?
Died - Probably died young as she isn't in any census
Buried
Sources
Family Search
Sarah Weed Weeks
Born 9 June 1822 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States
Never Married
Died
Buried
Sources
1870 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 47)
Family Search
Benjamin Weeks
Born 9 June 1822 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States
Married 1) Eleanor Susan Coan 3 Dec 1851 Lawrence, Massachusetts
Children with Eleanor:  Nellie
2) Amanda Weymouth
Children with Amanda: Fred, Mary
Died 16 November 1909 Orono, Penobscot, Maine
Buried
Sources
1850 US Census for Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 27)
1860 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 37, his second wife is with him)
1870 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 47, has his second wife and their children with him and they are living with his parents)
1880 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine ( age 57)
1900 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 77)
Death Record
Family Search
Ancestry.com

Lafayette Mace Weeks
Born 1 March 1825 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Never Married
Died 19 August 1825 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Buried Weeks Cemetery, Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Sources
Picture of headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83569338




Harriet Fayette Weeks
Born 8 July 1826 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Married Oliver M Wilson 25 December 1855 Maine
Died 19 August 1897 Orono, Penobscot, Maine
Buried
Sources
1870 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 43)
Family Search
Ancestry.com
Mary Ann Weeks
Born 6 December 1829 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Married  ? Colson
Died 14 October 1897 Orono, Penobscot, Maine
Buried
Sources
1850 US Census for Exeter, Penobscot, Maine (she is with her future sister in law, Eleanor Coan)
1850 US Census for Orono, Penobscot, Maine (she is with her family)
Death Record
Family Search
Ancestry.com
Ruth Weeks
Born 3 July 1830 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Married ?
Died
Buried
Sources
Family Search
Brigadier General George Henry Weeks
Born 3 Feb 1834 Gifford, New Hampshire
Military: US Army, See article
Married Laura W Babbit May 1859
Children:  Edwin, Francis, Marion
Died 12 Sep 1905 Washington DC
Buried Arlington National Cemetery,
Arlington, Virginia, Plot: Section 1 Grave 198
Short Bio:
United States Army Quartermaster General. He graduated from West Point Academy in 1857, as a 2nd Lieutenant and on February 10, 1859, was sent on frontier duty to Minnesota where he participated in the expedition to Yellow Medicine River with the 4th Artillery. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was transferred to Ft. McHenry and to Ft. Washington in Maryland as regimental quartermaster at the rank of Captain. On March 24, 1862, he was assigned to the Quartermaster's Department, becoming Chief Quartermaster of the 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac. He remained until December 6, 1864, as Chief Quartermaster at Lieutenant Colonel. In 1865, he was sent to the Pacific Coast as Chief Quartermaster. He served the depots at Ft. Vancouver, Washington, San Francisco, California and the District of Alaska until 1867. Dispatched to Arizona as Chief Quartermaster of that Department on June 22, 1878, Ft. Leavenworth in June 1880 and as Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the Division of the Pacific serving until 1888. In 1889, he transferred to the East, assumed his new duties as Depot Quartermaster at New York City and was promoted Colonel, Assistant Quartermaster General on May 16, 1895. At the direction of the Secretary of War, he was appointed the 20th Quartermaster Brigadier General on February 16, 1897 and retired a year later after 40 years of service in the Army. He was inducted in the Quartermaster General Hall of Fame on November 19, 2000. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) 
Sources
Book:  Who's Who in America Volumes 2-4, page 1576
Book:  Biographical Review: Containing life sketches of leading citizens by Biographical Review Publishing Company page 540
1850 US Census for Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 16)
Picture: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10552288

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