Mary LeGrand Weaver

Mary LeGrand Weaver

• Father: LeRoy Gardner Weaver b. circa 1824, d. 21 March 1895
• Mother: Margaret Deborah LeGrand b. 29 May 1835, d. 25 August 1867

• Mary LeGrand Weaver was born on 8 August 1853 in Alabama.
• LeRoy Gardner Weaver and Margaret Deborah LeGrand appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Mary LeGrand Weaver, Natalie Weaver, Lilly LeGrand Weaver and Eugenia LeGrand Weaver. L. G. Weaver appears in the 1860 Slave Schedule with 5 slaves and 0 slave houses.
• LeRoy Gardner Weaver appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Mary LeGrand Weaver, Natalie Weaver, Lilly LeGrand Weaver and Eugenia LeGrand Weaver. Also in the household were three domestic servants.
• She married Thomas Arthur Walthall, son of Margaret (?), on 4 February 1875 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, at Mr. Weaver's residence, with M. S. Andrews, MG, officiating. Bondsman was Edward K. Carlisle.
• Thomas Arthur Walthall and Mary LeGrand Weaver appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Newbern, Hale County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Margaret LeGrand Walthall, Thomas Arthur Walthall Jr. and Margaret (?)
• Thomas Arthur Walthall and Mary LeGrand Weaver appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Newbern, Hale County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Thomas Arthur Walthall Jr., Robert Kennon Walthall, Mary LeGrand Walthall, Milton Paul Walthall, Margaret LeGrand Cameron, Natalie R. Cameron and Eugenia LeGrand Cameron.
• Thomas Arthur Walthall and Mary LeGrand Weaver appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Newbern, Hale County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Mary LeGrand Walthall and Milton Paul Walthall.
• Thomas Arthur Walthall and Mary LeGrand Weaver appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Newbern, Hale County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Mary LeGrand Walthall, Milton Paul Walthall and Luciile Boggan.
• Mary LeGrand Weaver became a widow at the 19 May 1924 death of her husband Thomas Arthur Walthall.
• Thomas Arthur Walthall Jr. and Melanie Pollard appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Newbern, Hale County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Mary LeGrand Weaver, Thomas Arthur Walthall III.
• Mary LeGrand Weaver died on 9 April 1936 at age 82 in Newbern, Hale County, Alabama.
• She was interred at Newbern Cemetery, Newbern, Hale County, Alabama.
• See "T. A. Walthall and Sons Records, 1912-1971," W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
       Biographical/Historical Note: Thomas Arthur Walthall, Jr., the son of Thomas Arthur and Mary LeGrand Weaver Walthall, was born September 12, 1878, in Newbern, Hale County, Alabama. As a prominent member of the agricultural sector, he built a cotton gin in 1912, which served farmers from Hale and surrounding counties. T.A. Walthall, Jr. married Melanie Pollard in 1901 and produced three sons: T.A. Walthall III, George Pollard Walthall and Robert LeRoy Walthall. After T.A. Walthall, Jr. died in 1937, his three sons continued the family’s agricultural role in the community by operating, at different periods, two cotton gins and a dairy farm. Beyond these activities, the family sold cotton seed and fertilizer and provided cotton storage in their warehouse.

• Last Edited: 15 Jan 2014

• Charts: Descendants of LeGRAND John & Margaret Chambers