Husband of Ann Smith whose father was murdered by a slave in 1844.
Brother of Elizabeth Evans Wier who is buried nearby with her husband James Wier.
His son Lewis Evans died in the Civil War, after which time his widow remarried "a worthless Irish factor," according to James Wier, who "drove the children off," and two of the children, D.W. and Nancy, then went to live with the Wiers.
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 and Robert Evans are buried), while the William Wier tract is on the south of the cemetery.
(Family Maps of Grenada County, Mississippi by Gregory A. Boyd, pp. 142-47.)
Brother of Elizabeth Evans Wier who is buried nearby with her husband James Wier.
His son Lewis Evans died in the Civil War, after which time his widow remarried "a worthless Irish factor," according to James Wier, who "drove the children off," and two of the children, D.W. and Nancy, then went to live with the Wiers.
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 and Robert Evans are buried), while the William Wier tract is on the south of the cemetery.
(Family Maps of Grenada County, Mississippi by Gregory A. Boyd, pp. 142-47.)
Husband of Ann Smith whose father was murdered by a slave in 1844.
Brother of Elizabeth Evans Wier who is buried nearby with her husband James Wier.
His son Lewis Evans died in the Civil War, after which time his widow remarried "a worthless Irish factor," according to James Wier, who "drove the children off," and two of the children, D.W. and Nancy, then went to live with the Wiers.
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 and Robert Evans are buried), while the William Wier tract is on the south of the cemetery.
(Family Maps of Grenada County, Mississippi by Gregory A. Boyd, pp. 142-47.)
Brother of Elizabeth Evans Wier who is buried nearby with her husband James Wier.
His son Lewis Evans died in the Civil War, after which time his widow remarried "a worthless Irish factor," according to James Wier, who "drove the children off," and two of the children, D.W. and Nancy, then went to live with the Wiers.
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 and Robert Evans are buried), while the William Wier tract is on the south of the cemetery.
(Family Maps of Grenada County, Mississippi by Gregory A. Boyd, pp. 142-47.)
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