Born at Belnagilly, Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Member of the Whig party.
Bio from the Politicalgraveyard.com:
"James Weir (1802-1885) — of Yalobusha County, Miss.; Grenada County, Miss. Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), March 5, 1802. Son of James Wier and Mary (Hamilton) Wier; married to Elizabeth Evans (died 1863) and Elizabeth Jane Pruett. Planter; member of Mississippi state house of representatives, 1849-52. Presbyterian; later Baptist. Died in Cadaretta, Webster County, Miss., May 12, 1885. Interment at Lamon's Cemetery."
James Wier was the son of James and Mary Hamilton Wier, grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Faulkner Wier, James and Jane Boyd Hamilton; great-grandson of James and Margaret Agnes O'Marra Wier; great-great-grandson of John Wier and Jane Fergusson Wier. He was a baby when his parents brought their family from Ireland on the "Lady Washington" sailing from Belfast August 4, 1804, landing at Charleston, S.C., Oct. 31, 1804.
Wiersport and Wier’s Landing apparently referenced the dock at James Wier’s plantation near Graysport but not his ferry, and apparently these were not early alternate names for Wier’s Ferry or Graysport. In 1861, James and Elizabeth (Evans) Wier sold to Eli C. Spears for $1,400 three lots at Graysport, including “the ferry lot” and evidently including, “because of the considerable sum paid for these lots,” the adjoining ferry. “We do know that Eli C. Spears did operate a ferry at Graysport as late as 1875.” (A History of Grenada County by J.C. Hathorn, p.33).
He apparently sold the ferry at the start of the Civil War. The 1861 deed is the last known legal transaction involving Elizabeth Evans Wier.
He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1866 and later the 1868 convention which ratified the state Constitution and allowed Mississippi to re-enter the Union following the Civil War.
He was of decided pro-Union politics, and a loyal whig, frequently at odds with both Republicans and Democrats. Every one of his sons was a Confederate soldier and member of the Democratic party, and his son John F. Wier was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg serving the Confederacy.
James Wier chaired the state Senate subcommittee hearings investigating Ku Klux Klan activities in Mississippi, for which he was immensely unpopular and had his life threatened more than once.
He moved to Choctaw County in 1866-67 and Represented Choctaw Co. and Oktibbeha Co. in the Constitutional Convention of 1868 (Official and Statistical Register of the State of Miss., vol. 1, by the Miss. Dept of Archives & history, pp. 32, 241).
1842-3: State legislature, James Wier rep. Yalobusha County
1848-50: State legislature, James Wier rep. Yalobusha County
1850: Yalobusha County census (near Graysport, present-day Grenada)
1860: Yalobusha County census (present-day Grenada)
1868: State legislature, James Weir rep. Choctaw Co. and Oktibbeha Co. in the Constitutional Convention
1870: Choctaw County census
1880: Sumner County
Gore Springs may have been originally called Wier Springs. One of the farms owned by James Wier was located at Gore Springs and he resided there again until shortly before his death when he sold it to W.W. Gore and moved to the place where he died. The one-story antebellum Greek Revival house near the intersection at Gore Springs still stands and is known as the Gore house. This is believed to have been James Wier's home at one time.
History of Mississippi (1891) by Robert Lowry, pp. 32, 611.
History of Mississippi by Dunbar Rowland
Early History of Grenada & Surrounding Areas by J.C. Hathorn
History of Grenada County by Barbara Daigre
Yalobusha Bound by Chris B. Morgan
On Dec. 10, 1840, (Rev.) William Wier patented a tract of land in Section 11, Township 22N, R6E of Yalobusha County, MS (present Grenada Co.) adjoining Archibald Lamon who adjoined (William's first cousin) James Wier (120 acres) and (James' brother-in-law) Robert Evans, and not far from James' brother Samuel H. Wier. All these mentioned lands were patented the same day, so apparently land claims were staked in the 1830s. The James Wier and Evans tracts were on the north and east sides (respectively) of what is now called Lamon-Trussell Cemetery (where James Wier is buried), while the William Wier tract is on the south of the cemetery. Rev. William Wier lived at Columbus, Miss. It is not known whether he ever lived on the land he patented in 1840. But by 1880, Rev. William Wier's son, Rev. Thomas Coke Wier, had moved to Grenada, Mississippi, where he was the head of the Grenada Female College, a Methodist institution. The 1880 census shows him living there. He later moved back to Columbus, Miss.
(Family Maps of Grenada County, Mississippi by Gregory A. Boyd, pp. 142-47.)
Member of the Whig party.
Bio from the Politicalgraveyard.com:
"James Weir (1802-1885) — of Yalobusha County, Miss.; Grenada County, Miss. Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), March 5, 1802. Son of James Wier and Mary (Hamilton) Wier; married to Elizabeth Evans (died 1863) and Elizabeth Jane Pruett. Planter; member of Mississippi state house of representatives, 1849-52. Presbyterian; later Baptist. Died in Cadaretta, Webster County, Miss., May 12, 1885. Interment at Lamon's Cemetery."
James Wier was the son of James and Mary Hamilton Wier, grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Faulkner Wier, James and Jane Boyd Hamilton; great-grandson of James and Margaret Agnes O'Marra Wier; great-great-grandson of John Wier and Jane Fergusson Wier. He was a baby when his parents brought their family from Ireland on the "Lady Washington" sailing from Belfast August 4, 1804, landing at Charleston, S.C., Oct. 31, 1804.
Wiersport and Wier’s Landing apparently referenced the dock at James Wier’s plantation near Graysport but not his ferry, and apparently these were not early alternate names for Wier’s Ferry or Graysport. In 1861, James and Elizabeth (Evans) Wier sold to Eli C. Spears for $1,400 three lots at Graysport, including “the ferry lot” and evidently including, “because of the considerable sum paid for these lots,” the adjoining ferry. “We do know that Eli C. Spears did operate a ferry at Graysport as late as 1875.” (A History of Grenada County by J.C. Hathorn, p.33).
He apparently sold the ferry at the start of the Civil War. The 1861 deed is the last known legal transaction involving Elizabeth Evans Wier.
He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1866 and later the 1868 convention which ratified the state Constitution and allowed Mississippi to re-enter the Union following the Civil War.
He was of decided pro-Union politics, and a loyal whig, frequently at odds with both Republicans and Democrats. Every one of his sons was a Confederate soldier and member of the Democratic party, and his son John F. Wier was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg serving the Confederacy.
James Wier chaired the state Senate subcommittee hearings investigating Ku Klux Klan activities in Mississippi, for which he was immensely unpopular and had his life threatened more than once.
He moved to Choctaw County in 1866-67 and Represented Choctaw Co. and Oktibbeha Co. in the Constitutional Convention of 1868 (Official and Statistical Register of the State of Miss., vol. 1, by the Miss. Dept of Archives & history, pp. 32, 241).
1842-3: State legislature, James Wier rep. Yalobusha County
1848-50: State legislature, James Wier rep. Yalobusha County
1850: Yalobusha County census (near Graysport, present-day Grenada)
1860: Yalobusha County census (present-day Grenada)
1868: State legislature, James Weir rep. Choctaw Co. and Oktibbeha Co. in the Constitutional Convention
1870: Choctaw County census
1880: Sumner County
Gore Springs may have been originally called Wier Springs. One of the farms owned by James Wier was located at Gore Springs and he resided there again until shortly before his death when he sold it to W.W. Gore and moved to the place where he died. The one-story antebellum Greek Revival house near the intersection at Gore Springs still stands and is known as the Gore house. This is believed to have been James Wier's home at one time.
History of Mississippi (1891) by Robert Lowry, pp. 32, 611.
History of Mississippi by Dunbar Rowland
Early History of Grenada & Surrounding Areas by J.C. Hathorn
History of Grenada County by Barbara Daigre
Yalobusha Bound by Chris B. Morgan
On Dec. 10, 1840, (Rev.) William Wier patented a tract of land in Section 11, Township 22N, R6E of Yalobusha County, MS (present Grenada Co.) adjoining Archibald Lamon who adjoined (William's first cousin) James Wier (120 acres) and (James' brother-in-law) Robert Evans, and not far from James' brother Samuel H. Wier. All these mentioned lands were patented the same day, so apparently land claims were staked in the 1830s. The James Wier and Evans tracts were on the north and east sides (respectively) of what is now called Lamon-Trussell Cemetery (where James Wier is buried), while the William Wier tract is on the south of the cemetery. Rev. William Wier lived at Columbus, Miss. It is not known whether he ever lived on the land he patented in 1840. But by 1880, Rev. William Wier's son, Rev. Thomas Coke Wier, had moved to Grenada, Mississippi, where he was the head of the Grenada Female College, a Methodist institution. The 1880 census shows him living there. He later moved back to Columbus, Miss.
(Family Maps of Grenada County, Mississippi by Gregory A. Boyd, pp. 142-47.)
Born at Belnagilly, Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Member of the Whig party.
Bio from the Politicalgraveyard.com:
"James Weir (1802-1885) — of Yalobusha County, Miss.; Grenada County, Miss. Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), March 5, 1802. Son of James Wier and Mary (Hamilton) Wier; married to Elizabeth Evans (died 1863) and Elizabeth Jane Pruett. Planter; member of Mississippi state house of representatives, 1849-52. Presbyterian; later Baptist. Died in Cadaretta, Webster County, Miss., May 12, 1885. Interment at Lamon's Cemetery."
James Wier was the son of James and Mary Hamilton Wier, grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Faulkner Wier, James and Jane Boyd Hamilton; great-grandson of James and Margaret Agnes O'Marra Wier; great-great-grandson of John Wier and Jane Fergusson Wier. He was a baby when his parents brought their family from Ireland on the "Lady Washington" sailing from Belfast August 4, 1804, landing at Charleston, S.C., Oct. 31, 1804.
Wiersport and Wier’s Landing apparently referenced the dock at James Wier’s plantation near Graysport but not his ferry, and apparently these were not early alternate names for Wier’s Ferry or Graysport. In 1861, James and Elizabeth (Evans) Wier sold to Eli C. Spears for $1,400 three lots at Graysport, including “the ferry lot” and evidently including, “because of the considerable sum paid for these lots,” the adjoining ferry. “We do know that Eli C. Spears did operate a ferry at Graysport as late as 1875.” (A History of Grenada County by J.C. Hathorn, p.33).
He apparently sold the ferry at the start of the Civil War. The 1861 deed is the last known legal transaction involving Elizabeth Evans Wier.
He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1866 and later the 1868 convention which ratified the state Constitution and allowed Mississippi to re-enter the Union following the Civil War.
He was of decided pro-Union politics, and a loyal whig, frequently at odds with both Republicans and Democrats. Every one of his sons was a Confederate soldier and member of the Democratic party, and his son John F. Wier was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg serving the Confederacy.
James Wier chaired the state Senate subcommittee hearings investigating Ku Klux Klan activities in Mississippi, for which he was immensely unpopular and had his life threatened more than once.
He moved to Choctaw County in 1866-67 and Represented Choctaw Co. and Oktibbeha Co. in the Constitutional Convention of 1868 (Official and Statistical Register of the State of Miss., vol. 1, by the Miss. Dept of Archives & history, pp. 32, 241).
1842-3: State legislature, James Wier rep. Yalobusha County
1848-50: State legislature, James Wier rep. Yalobusha County
1850: Yalobusha County census (near Graysport, present-day Grenada)
1860: Yalobusha County census (present-day Grenada)
1868: State legislature, James Weir rep. Choctaw Co. and Oktibbeha Co. in the Constitutional Convention
1870: Choctaw County census
1880: Sumner County
Gore Springs may have been originally called Wier Springs. One of the farms owned by James Wier was located at Gore Springs and he resided there again until shortly before his death when he sold it to W.W. Gore and moved to the place where he died. The one-story antebellum Greek Revival house near the intersection at Gore Springs still stands and is known as the Gore house. This is believed to have been James Wier's home at one time.
History of Mississippi (1891) by Robert Lowry, pp. 32, 611.
History of Mississippi by Dunbar Rowland
Early History of Grenada & Surrounding Areas by J.C. Hathorn
History of Grenada County by Barbara Daigre
Yalobusha Bound by Chris B. Morgan
On Dec. 10, 1840, (Rev.) William Wier patented a tract of land in Section 11, Township 22N, R6E of Yalobusha County, MS (present Grenada Co.) adjoining Archibald Lamon who adjoined (William's first cousin) James Wier (120 acres) and (James' brother-in-law) Robert Evans, and not far from James' brother Samuel H. Wier. All these mentioned lands were patented the same day, so apparently land claims were staked in the 1830s. The James Wier and Evans tracts were on the north and east sides (respectively) of what is now called Lamon-Trussell Cemetery (where James Wier is buried), while the William Wier tract is on the south of the cemetery. Rev. William Wier lived at Columbus, Miss. It is not known whether he ever lived on the land he patented in 1840. But by 1880, Rev. William Wier's son, Rev. Thomas Coke Wier, had moved to Grenada, Mississippi, where he was the head of the Grenada Female College, a Methodist institution. The 1880 census shows him living there. He later moved back to Columbus, Miss.
(Family Maps of Grenada County, Mississippi by Gregory A. Boyd, pp. 142-47.)
Member of the Whig party.
Bio from the Politicalgraveyard.com:
"James Weir (1802-1885) — of Yalobusha County, Miss.; Grenada County, Miss. Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), March 5, 1802. Son of James Wier and Mary (Hamilton) Wier; married to Elizabeth Evans (died 1863) and Elizabeth Jane Pruett. Planter; member of Mississippi state house of representatives, 1849-52. Presbyterian; later Baptist. Died in Cadaretta, Webster County, Miss., May 12, 1885. Interment at Lamon's Cemetery."
James Wier was the son of James and Mary Hamilton Wier, grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Faulkner Wier, James and Jane Boyd Hamilton; great-grandson of James and Margaret Agnes O'Marra Wier; great-great-grandson of John Wier and Jane Fergusson Wier. He was a baby when his parents brought their family from Ireland on the "Lady Washington" sailing from Belfast August 4, 1804, landing at Charleston, S.C., Oct. 31, 1804.
Wiersport and Wier’s Landing apparently referenced the dock at James Wier’s plantation near Graysport but not his ferry, and apparently these were not early alternate names for Wier’s Ferry or Graysport. In 1861, James and Elizabeth (Evans) Wier sold to Eli C. Spears for $1,400 three lots at Graysport, including “the ferry lot” and evidently including, “because of the considerable sum paid for these lots,” the adjoining ferry. “We do know that Eli C. Spears did operate a ferry at Graysport as late as 1875.” (A History of Grenada County by J.C. Hathorn, p.33).
He apparently sold the ferry at the start of the Civil War. The 1861 deed is the last known legal transaction involving Elizabeth Evans Wier.
He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1866 and later the 1868 convention which ratified the state Constitution and allowed Mississippi to re-enter the Union following the Civil War.
He was of decided pro-Union politics, and a loyal whig, frequently at odds with both Republicans and Democrats. Every one of his sons was a Confederate soldier and member of the Democratic party, and his son John F. Wier was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg serving the Confederacy.
James Wier chaired the state Senate subcommittee hearings investigating Ku Klux Klan activities in Mississippi, for which he was immensely unpopular and had his life threatened more than once.
He moved to Choctaw County in 1866-67 and Represented Choctaw Co. and Oktibbeha Co. in the Constitutional Convention of 1868 (Official and Statistical Register of the State of Miss., vol. 1, by the Miss. Dept of Archives & history, pp. 32, 241).
1842-3: State legislature, James Wier rep. Yalobusha County
1848-50: State legislature, James Wier rep. Yalobusha County
1850: Yalobusha County census (near Graysport, present-day Grenada)
1860: Yalobusha County census (present-day Grenada)
1868: State legislature, James Weir rep. Choctaw Co. and Oktibbeha Co. in the Constitutional Convention
1870: Choctaw County census
1880: Sumner County
Gore Springs may have been originally called Wier Springs. One of the farms owned by James Wier was located at Gore Springs and he resided there again until shortly before his death when he sold it to W.W. Gore and moved to the place where he died. The one-story antebellum Greek Revival house near the intersection at Gore Springs still stands and is known as the Gore house. This is believed to have been James Wier's home at one time.
History of Mississippi (1891) by Robert Lowry, pp. 32, 611.
History of Mississippi by Dunbar Rowland
Early History of Grenada & Surrounding Areas by J.C. Hathorn
History of Grenada County by Barbara Daigre
Yalobusha Bound by Chris B. Morgan
On Dec. 10, 1840, (Rev.) William Wier patented a tract of land in Section 11, Township 22N, R6E of Yalobusha County, MS (present Grenada Co.) adjoining Archibald Lamon who adjoined (William's first cousin) James Wier (120 acres) and (James' brother-in-law) Robert Evans, and not far from James' brother Samuel H. Wier. All these mentioned lands were patented the same day, so apparently land claims were staked in the 1830s. The James Wier and Evans tracts were on the north and east sides (respectively) of what is now called Lamon-Trussell Cemetery (where James Wier is buried), while the William Wier tract is on the south of the cemetery. Rev. William Wier lived at Columbus, Miss. It is not known whether he ever lived on the land he patented in 1840. But by 1880, Rev. William Wier's son, Rev. Thomas Coke Wier, had moved to Grenada, Mississippi, where he was the head of the Grenada Female College, a Methodist institution. The 1880 census shows him living there. He later moved back to Columbus, Miss.
(Family Maps of Grenada County, Mississippi by Gregory A. Boyd, pp. 142-47.)
Inscription
James Wier
Born in Ireland
Sep. 5, 1802
Died May 12, 1885.
The Sweet Remembrances
Of the just
Shall flourish when they
Sleep in dust
On back at base: Monument shipped from Belleville, Illinois.
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