Weston, Missouri
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.2 km²), all of it land. | According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.2 km²), all of it land. | ||
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| + | ==Williams family== | ||
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| + | The 1850 US Census places [[John Benjamin Williams]] and family in Weston: | ||
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| + | [[Image:1850 Weston Census crop.jpg|600px]] | ||
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| + | The autobiography of [[Clarissa Harding|Clarissa]] written in 1888 has this to say about Weston: | ||
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| + | After making a visit at St. Joseph, we went to Weston, a little town on the river. We went to keep boarding house for | ||
| + | Ben Halliday to board men to cut cord wood for the steam boats. My husband's health had always been bad, now he grew more | ||
| + | feeble. After a time I took in sewing for the stores and anyone who wanted work done. My husband still grew worse. He was | ||
| + | just able to sit up. We then moved to a little house about a mile from Riatto. There my boy John took sick and died of dropsy. | ||
| + | He was sixteen months old. On June 12, I had a daughter. We called her Elizabeth Mercy. She only lived seven months. We took | ||
| + | her to the same place to bury her. My husband's cough still grew worse. I began to feel that I did not have any friends. I was | ||
| + | hundreds of miles from my relatives, children dying, and my husband likely to die and me in a strange land among Gentiles, but I | ||
| + | must say they were very kind to me. I never saw people more kind. They got it into their heads that he was a Mason. In the month | ||
| + | of March, (the 8th) 1851, my husband died. The people were kind; they got the coffin made and everything done and never said pay to | ||
| + | me. Then they brought in donations from every house. They even hauled wood and copped it. My husband and two children were buried | ||
| + | in Weston. | ||
[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
