From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
publ. 1912, Page1328-1331
 
SILAS ENSLEY WEAVER.  Fame may look to the clash of resounding arms for its 
heroes; history's pages may be filled with a record of the deeds of the so-
called great who have deluged the world with blood, destroyed kingdoms, 
created dynasties and left their names as plague spots upon civilization's 
escutcheon; the poet may embalm in deathless song the short and simple annals 
of the poor; but there have been comparatively few to sound the praise of the 
brave and sturdy pioneer who among the truly great and noble is certainly 
among the deserving of at least a little space on the category of the 
immortals.  To him more than to any other is  civilization indebted for the 
brightest jewel in its diadem, for it was he that blazed the way and acted as 
vanguard for the might army of progress that within the last century has 
conquered Wisconsin's wilderness and transformed it into one of the fairest 
and most enlightened of the American commonwealth's domains.
 
A representative of a sterling pioneer family is Silas Ensley WEAVER, well 
known citizen of Elkhorn, who was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, along the 
bay of Fundy, February 13, 1840.  He is the son of Silas J. and Sarah 
(JACKSON) WEAVER, and there he spent his early boyhood, accompanying the 
family to the West in 1851.  They arrived in Walworth county, Wisconsin on 
June 21st of that year and located in Richmond township, where they bought a 
farm on which the parents spent the rest of their lives.  They were the 
parents of the following children: Eliza married Simeon LOOMER and they lived 
in Sugar Creek township, where her death occurred in November 1881, leaving a 
family; Louisa married A. I. SWAN and lived at Fairfield, Illinois until her 
death; Amos is a Baptist minister, of Omaha, Nebraska, now living retired on 
account of ill health; Silas E., of this sketch; Wellington, who lived retired 
on account of ill health; Silas E., of this sketch; Wellington, who lived in 
Missouri a number of years, now makes his home at Ord, Nebraska; Jackson lives 
in Detroit, Michigan, where he is superintendent of construction of dwelling 
houses; Hannah died in Illinois when about twenty-one years old; James, who 
lived at Whitewater, died there in young manhood; Bert has been a ranchman and 
miner, and is now farming in Montana.
 
Silas E. WEAVER came west with his parents in his boyhood and here he grew to 
maturity on the home farm.  When the Civil war broke out he enlisted the last 
of December 1861, in Company K, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, and he served in 
Missouri most of the time.  Late in the war he was in Greerson's raid, when 
for sixteen days they were in the saddle, dashing through the enemy's 
country.  He was in the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas.  After he had been into 
he service about two years he was disabled by rheumatism, which incapacitated 
him from duty for about six months.  After his term of enlistment had expired 
he attempted to re-enlist but was refused on account of disability.  He was a 
corporal when he went to the front and for meritorious conduct was advanced to 
first sergeant.  He was mustered into service on January 8, 1862, and was 
active thereafter, always faithful to the duties assigned him.  He spent two 
and one-half years in Missouri and northern Arkansas, then went down the 
Mississippi river to Vicksburg, where he remained two months, then returned to 
Memphis where he was discharged on January 24, 1864.  While in Missouri he was 
guarding against bushwhackers.
 
After his military career Mr. WEAVER returned to Walworth county and for about 
two years rented a farm, then moved to Johnson county, Missouri, where he 
bought a farm and there made his home for eleven years, then sold out, moved 
back to Walworth county and resumed farming, living near Delavan lake on a 
large farm for seven years.  Then sold out and moved to Whitewater, where his 
son was attending the State Normal school, and bought a home there.  After the 
son finished school they sold their home and bought a farm in Richmond 
township and lived there two and one-half years, then bought a farm in Sugar 
Creek township, about five miles north of Elkhorn, and lived there until the 
children were all grown up and married.  Two years later they sold the farm, 
and the parents spent several months visiting among their children at Beloit, 
Kansas, and Denver, Colorado, then came back to Elkhorn where they have since 
resided.
 
Silas E. WEAVER was married July 20, 1863, to Amanda LOOMER, daughter of 
Leonard and Asenath (LOOMER) LOOMER.  Her parents were both born in Nova 
Scotia, and when her father was nineteen years old he emigrated to Walworth 
county, Wisconsin, and entered government land in Sugar Creek township.  This 
was in the early pioneer days and Indians were often seen; there were but a 
few houses in Milwaukee, and the country was a vast forest, full of wild 
game.  He came here with his father, Stephen LOOMER..  After entering land the 
father returned to Nova Scotia and brought the rest of the family to this 
county.  Stephen LOOMER had been married, and there were four children by the 
first union, a son Leonard and three daughters, Harriet, Hulda and Unity.  
Leonard's mother had died in Nova Scotia and there the father had married 
again, by which union there were two sons, Stephen and Simeon.  All these 
children came back to Walworth county with their father.  Asenath LOOMER was 
the daughter of Jonathan and Sophia (JESS) LOOMER, a native of Nova Scotia.  
She came here with her parents soon after Leonard LOOMER's parents came.  Her 
people also located in Sugar Creek township.  Leonard LOOMER and she were 
married when the former was about twenty-five years old, and she twenty, and 
they spent the rest of their lives in Sugar Creek township.
 
Silas E. WEAVER was assessor of Sugar Creek township while living there.  He 
is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
 
Five children have been born to Silas E. WEAVER and wife, named as follows: 
Sarah Asenath married Edward JAMES and they have lived at Beloit, Kansas, 
since 1890, and have four children, Walter Edward, Leonard Weaver, Paul and 
Ruth; Elvira B. is the widow of John G. WHITE, deceased, he having been a 
soldier in the Civil war.
 
After the close of the war John G. WHITE lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
in the employ of the government for some time, later engaging in the insurance 
business and was administrator of estates in Milwaukee, in which city he and 
his wife resided until 1903 ,when they moved to Elkhorn and built a fine home, 
and here his death occurred in July 1904.  She had one son, Philip Weaver 
WHITE, whose birth occurred on September 5, 1901.
 
George W. WEAVER, the third child born to Silas E. WEAVER and wife, lives in 
Sugar Creek township, five and one-half miles from Elkhorn.  He married Rose 
HOOPER, of Palmyra, this state, and they have five children, Marian, Curtis, 
James, Rose, and Eleanor.  Harriet WEAVER married Dr. Frank BURTON, of 
Lagrange township, and they live in Denver, Colorado; they have three 
children, Winifred Jean, John and Harriet.  Edith Amanda WEAVER married Horace 
M. GRING, a builder and real estate dealer in Denver, Colorado, their union 
has been without issue.
 
Submitted by Carol