Person:Samuel Shirk (5)

Shirk or Weber?

It is not clear if this last name should be Weaver. I have transcribed the list of children of Samuel Weber as written in M.G. Weaver's history ^[1]. However, Samuel Shirk's older sister married a Peter Shirk; this is listed just before Samuel in the list of children and there could be a human error in recording Samuel's last name. Or the Shirk family could have been close family friends and left Samuel to be raised with the Weavers.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Weaver, Martin G. (Martin Good); W. Banks Weaver; and Paul L. Weaver. Weber - Weaver history: descendants of Henry Weber, 1690-1745, Swiss emigrant who settled in Weaverland in 1732. (McAlisterville, Pennsylvania (ed. 1) & Goshen, Indiana (ed. 3): W.B. Weaver, 1975)
   pg. 19.