Edward Rumsey Weir, Sr.

Birth Date

1816-11-29

Death Date

1891-02-05

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, attorney, merchant, politician, and soldier. Greenville, Kentucky, native. Son of James Weir and Anna Cowman Rumsey Weir. Married to Harriet R. Miller Weir in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, on September 2, 1838. Father of Edward Rumsey Weir, Jr., Anna C. Weir, Virginia Weir, Miller Weir, Max Weir, Jane Weir, Sallie Ann Weir, Susan M. Weir, and Emily Weir. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Muhlenberg County from 1841 to 1842. Attorney in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Attorney and merchant in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Owned forty enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Served in the Muhlenberg County Home Guard in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Muhlenberg County from 1862 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 272A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 144-145.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky State, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 41.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 98A-B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, South Carrollton, p. 436B.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. X (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 640.
"Edward Rumsey Weir, Sr. (1816-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 71435457, accessed December 4, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71435457.
"Edward Rumsey Weir," Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County Marriages, Film 000557316, p. 4.
Otto A. Rothert, A History of Muhlenberg County (Louisville, KY: John P. Morton & Company, 1913), 56-62.

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