G. J. Weems, farmer and miller, of the firm of Weems & McDannald, was born in 1838 in Greene County, where he has since resided. He began with $3,000 worth of property, and now owns a fine farm of 300 acres at his home, and two other tracts of 295 acres, besides a half interest in the valuable mill property. In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Eighth Tennessee Federal Infantry, and served until June, 1865, when he was mustered out at Nashville, having received a severe wound at Kenesaw Mountain. In 1865 Mattie J., daughter of William Ross, of the county of Greene, became his wife. Their children are Mary M. (now Mrs. Barlow), William R., Charles E., Livy A. S., Rebecca J., Dollie O. and Nancy Alice. Both are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he a Prohibitionist.
