Category: Families

In this blog, I will introduce you to the Ford Weeast and Helen Davis family; my grandparents. Ford is the only son of Morgan H Weeast.

Lineage: Thomas Weast -> Morgan H Weast -> Morgan Weeast -> Ford Weeast

Ford had one daughter with his first wife, Ethel Carrell, before her early death one year later. He then went on to have six other children with his second wife, Helen Davis. They all lived in Florence, New Jersey.

To supplement the other standard sources of information, I was able to copy the Roebling Employment Records for most people mentioned below from microfilm found in the Burlington County Library. This proved to be invaluable when talking about the Weeast family during World War II.

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In the last blog, I introduced Morgan and Lydia Weast. In this blog, I will detail out information about one of their three sons, Morgan H Weeast. Morgan would be my great-grandfather.

Lineage: Thomas Weast -> Morgan Weast -> Morgan H Weeast

What is fortunate for this family is the numerous photos I have collected and are linked to this blog. Although there are no photos of the children when younger, there are photos as adults.

Continue reading “Morgan H Weeast and Elizabeth Johnson Family (1869-1957)”

In “The Early Weast” blog, I introduced the Thomas and Mercy Weast family. In this, and the next two blogs I will introduce my family line from Morgan Weast to Morgan Weast Jr to Ford Weeast (my grandfather).

Lineage: Thomas Weast -> Morgan Weast (my great-great-grandfather)

Thomas Weast had four sons, one of which was Morgan Weast. Morgan worked at Hanover Furnace with his brothers and father. He married Lydia Pettit probably around 1845-1846 when he was 26 and she was 19. No marriage record has been found. In all, they had 10 children.

The first instance of this family’s name changing from Weast to Weeast is recorded in the 1870 Census. When I blog later about the families of the sons I will use the Weeast name.

Approximately half of the 200+ Weast / Weeast I have identified are descendants of Morgan and Lydia Weast. The other half are descendants of Henry Weast. There is a smaller number who are descendants of Daniel and Levi Weast.

Continue reading “The Morgan Weast and Lydia Pettit Family (1818 – 1904)”

The Weeast family lines all trace back to Thomas Weast, born around 1790, and his wife Mercy, born around 1796. From 1790 to 1840, the Federal Census recorded the name of the head of household and male and female counts in ranges of age; see the 1830 Census for Thomas Weast. Starting in 1850, the Census recorded all people residing in the household, including relatives or boarders living with the family. Here is a link to view the Thomas Weast family in the 1850 Census; notice the level of detail here.

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