Person:James Weeks (16)

About James Weeks

James Weeks of Rockbridge County, Virginia was born between 1781-1790 according to the 1830 Census and is listed in the 1820 & 1830 Census living in that County. He appears to have had two marriages; a first marriage to Catherine Hogg on 13 November 1817 in Rockbridge County [Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 & 1785-1940]. Virginia Marriage Records show James Weeks married second to Mary "Polly" Hodge prior to 1835, so several of the children born earlier are likely from the prior marriage assuming it was the same James Weeks that married both Catherine Hogg and Polly Hodge. [Note that there does not seem to be evidence that there were two James Weeks of the same approximate age in the area during that time].

James Weeks and also likely his wife must have died sometime prior to the 1850 Census [and perhaps prior to the 1840 Census as there does not appear to be any Weeks family members listed in either the Augusta or Rockbridge County 1840 Census records], as there are several children listed with a Catharine Weeks [age 28] in nearby Augusta County with what is assumed several of her younger siblings, [which are all assumed to be children of this James Weeks, (including a proven son Elisha Weeks)]:

Name: Catharine Weeks

Age: 28

Birth Year: abt 1822

Birthplace: Virginia

Home in 1850: District 2 and a half, Augusta, Virginia, USA

Gender: Female

Family Number: 1425

Household Members: Name Age

Catharine Weeks 28

Lucy Weeks 21

Adam Weeks 18

Elizabeth Weeks 10

Elisha Weeks 13 [Elisha is a proven son of James Weeks and his likely second wife Polly Hodge as he named them as his parents in his marriage record]

Robert Weeks 9

Nimrod Weeks 7

Additional research is needed on this family.

1.   United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33).

   Name: James Weeks
   Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia
   Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
   Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2
   Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 [b. bet. 1776-1794]
   Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1 [b. bet. 1795-1804]
   Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
   Free White Persons - Under 16: 2
   Free White Persons - Over 25: 1
   Total Free White Persons: 4
   Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 4

2.   United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19).

   Name: James Weeks
   Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Rockbridge, Virginia
   Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 [b. bet. 1781-1790]
   Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
   Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2
   Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 [b. bet. 1791-1800]
   Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
   Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
   Total Free White Persons: 8
   Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 8

3.   Platter, David Edwin. A history of the Platter family from about year sixteen hundred to the present time. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973)
   pg. 76.

   VI - (434) Jacob Platter (s. of Jacob V; Joseph IV). Born 1805 near Piqua, Miami Co., O. His father, Jacob V, must have lived for a time in Miami Co., near his brother George, before he moved on to Defiance, O., where he later lived and where he died. He married Jane Weeks, the daughter of James Weeks, of Rockbridge, W.Va. about 1834-5. After his marriage he lived on a farm near Newville, DeKalb Co. Ind. Of this marriage nine children were born. Their names were: James W., Nancy Jane, Mary, Anneda, Josephine, Emma Jane, John, Lewis and Vinage. [additional info on these children listed in this source].