William E. Weger
Birth 1780
Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Death 1839 (aged 58–59)
Moultrie County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Liberty Cemetery
Sullivan Township, Moultrie County, Illinois, USA
"Wm. Weger, in the spring of 1826, located in the Richland Creek Settlement; his oldest son, John, who was a married man also settled here at the same time. Julia Ann and Jane Weger, twins, were born to John and Ann Weger in Richland Township, July 4th, 1826. The neighboring Indians made for them a double papoose cradle, which is yet retained in the family. The Weger families only lived in this township about two years, and then moved into the Sand Creek Settlement in Okaw." See sources - p. 314.
"Record of the meeting of the first Board of Commissioners. At a special term of the County Commissioners' Court, in the County of Shelby, began and held on Tuesday, the 24th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven: --- Present: John Whitley, Levi Casey and William Weger, County Commissioners." See sources. p. 54, 55, 56.
"Judge William Williamson, a native of North Carolina, came to the county about 1825. In 1830, he bought a 'squatters improvement' of William Weger, near the head of Carr's Creek." See sources. p. 237.
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