Lemuel and Margaret were married in 1856. Their first child was born in 1857, the second in 1858 and the third in 1860. The census of that year for the Burkes Mill (Burketown) area of the North Subdivision of Augusta County, VA, shows Lemuel as a farmer with real estate worth $6650 and a personal estate of $850. They employed a day laborer and a domestic. During the winter of 1860-61 two of their young sons passed away within two weeks of each other. The Civil War began in April 1861. A year later Lemuel died of pneumonia. He left a young widow and a four year old son who was buried beside him six months later. Margaret passed away two years later at the beginning of the last year of the war. All rest next to each other in plot 1 of the Lutheran church cemetery of their community and are the only Wellers in that cemetery. Witnessing the decimation of this family, Lemuel's brother John moved his family to Maryland in the middle of the Civil War. Several neighboring families or relatives moved or sent older sons to Indiana or Ohio.
The following appeared in the Staunton, Virginia, Spectator on Tuesday, July 7-28, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War and a year after Lemuel's death (note the switch in spelling his name).
"Valuable Augusta land for sale.--By authority of a decree of the Circuit Court of Augusta county, rendered at its June term, 1863, in Chancery suit of 'Craun's Executors, et als, vs. Benjamin Weller, et als,' we will, on Thursday, the 30th day of July, 1863, upon the premises, offer for sale, by way of public auction, the very valuable tract of land lying on Middle River, in Augusta county, whereof Samuel Weller, died, seized and possessed. This tract, consisting of 133 acres, adjoining the lands of John McCue, the late Robert Guy, and others, will be sold subject to Mrs. Lemuel Weller's dower therein, which, however, will be laid off before the day of sale. The extraordinary fertility of the tract, its fine condition, and the excellence of its neighborhood, will at once command the attention of persons desirous of investing their funds in first-rate land, well improved and well surrounded." [Terms of sale followed.] This property was further identified on page two of the Staunton Spectator of January 5, 1869, in the notice of a Sheriff's Sale - "at the residence of said William N. Clarke (formerly the property of Lemuel weller, dec'd, on Middle River, near Samuel Cline's mill..."
The following appeared in the Staunton, Virginia, Spectator on Tuesday, July 7-28, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War and a year after Lemuel's death (note the switch in spelling his name).
"Valuable Augusta land for sale.--By authority of a decree of the Circuit Court of Augusta county, rendered at its June term, 1863, in Chancery suit of 'Craun's Executors, et als, vs. Benjamin Weller, et als,' we will, on Thursday, the 30th day of July, 1863, upon the premises, offer for sale, by way of public auction, the very valuable tract of land lying on Middle River, in Augusta county, whereof Samuel Weller, died, seized and possessed. This tract, consisting of 133 acres, adjoining the lands of John McCue, the late Robert Guy, and others, will be sold subject to Mrs. Lemuel Weller's dower therein, which, however, will be laid off before the day of sale. The extraordinary fertility of the tract, its fine condition, and the excellence of its neighborhood, will at once command the attention of persons desirous of investing their funds in first-rate land, well improved and well surrounded." [Terms of sale followed.] This property was further identified on page two of the Staunton Spectator of January 5, 1869, in the notice of a Sheriff's Sale - "at the residence of said William N. Clarke (formerly the property of Lemuel weller, dec'd, on Middle River, near Samuel Cline's mill..."
Lemuel and Margaret were married in 1856. Their first child was born in 1857, the second in 1858 and the third in 1860. The census of that year for the Burkes Mill (Burketown) area of the North Subdivision of Augusta County, VA, shows Lemuel as a farmer with real estate worth $6650 and a personal estate of $850. They employed a day laborer and a domestic. During the winter of 1860-61 two of their young sons passed away within two weeks of each other. The Civil War began in April 1861. A year later Lemuel died of pneumonia. He left a young widow and a four year old son who was buried beside him six months later. Margaret passed away two years later at the beginning of the last year of the war. All rest next to each other in plot 1 of the Lutheran church cemetery of their community and are the only Wellers in that cemetery. Witnessing the decimation of this family, Lemuel's brother John moved his family to Maryland in the middle of the Civil War. Several neighboring families or relatives moved or sent older sons to Indiana or Ohio.
The following appeared in the Staunton, Virginia, Spectator on Tuesday, July 7-28, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War and a year after Lemuel's death (note the switch in spelling his name).
"Valuable Augusta land for sale.--By authority of a decree of the Circuit Court of Augusta county, rendered at its June term, 1863, in Chancery suit of 'Craun's Executors, et als, vs. Benjamin Weller, et als,' we will, on Thursday, the 30th day of July, 1863, upon the premises, offer for sale, by way of public auction, the very valuable tract of land lying on Middle River, in Augusta county, whereof Samuel Weller, died, seized and possessed. This tract, consisting of 133 acres, adjoining the lands of John McCue, the late Robert Guy, and others, will be sold subject to Mrs. Lemuel Weller's dower therein, which, however, will be laid off before the day of sale. The extraordinary fertility of the tract, its fine condition, and the excellence of its neighborhood, will at once command the attention of persons desirous of investing their funds in first-rate land, well improved and well surrounded." [Terms of sale followed.] This property was further identified on page two of the Staunton Spectator of January 5, 1869, in the notice of a Sheriff's Sale - "at the residence of said William N. Clarke (formerly the property of Lemuel weller, dec'd, on Middle River, near Samuel Cline's mill..."
The following appeared in the Staunton, Virginia, Spectator on Tuesday, July 7-28, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War and a year after Lemuel's death (note the switch in spelling his name).
"Valuable Augusta land for sale.--By authority of a decree of the Circuit Court of Augusta county, rendered at its June term, 1863, in Chancery suit of 'Craun's Executors, et als, vs. Benjamin Weller, et als,' we will, on Thursday, the 30th day of July, 1863, upon the premises, offer for sale, by way of public auction, the very valuable tract of land lying on Middle River, in Augusta county, whereof Samuel Weller, died, seized and possessed. This tract, consisting of 133 acres, adjoining the lands of John McCue, the late Robert Guy, and others, will be sold subject to Mrs. Lemuel Weller's dower therein, which, however, will be laid off before the day of sale. The extraordinary fertility of the tract, its fine condition, and the excellence of its neighborhood, will at once command the attention of persons desirous of investing their funds in first-rate land, well improved and well surrounded." [Terms of sale followed.] This property was further identified on page two of the Staunton Spectator of January 5, 1869, in the notice of a Sheriff's Sale - "at the residence of said William N. Clarke (formerly the property of Lemuel weller, dec'd, on Middle River, near Samuel Cline's mill..."
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