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From: Jeannette <>
Subject: [PACAMBRI] James Weakland & Elisabeth Luther
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:14:32 -0500

James Weakland, b.1826 in
Cambria Co., son
of George Weakland and Mary Ellen McKinney, m. Elizabeth
Luther, b.1830
to John Luther and Mary Ann Platt,in Carrolltown, Cambria
Co., in Jan.
1850. The marriage took place after his service in the
Mexican WAr.
During the next few years, before he disappeared forever
around 1857, he
and Elizabeth had several children, all daughters,
apparently. It's the
number and identities of the daughters that are in
dispute. The Platt
family tree prepared by Charles Vignos seems to indicate a
fourth
daughter, Lucinda, while some researchers have even
claimed a fifth
daughter for this family. My research supports only
three daughters,
Mary Jane, Amelia Matilda, and Francis Elmira (my
great-grandmother).
These are the only children listed in the household with
Elizabeth in
the 1860 census. Baptismal records for each of the three
are recorded in
Ledoux's CATHOLIC VITAL RECORDS, and there's no record for
a Lucinda.
There is one puzzling entry, however, in Ledoux's CVR,
Vol.111, p228
(among baptisms apparently performed at St. Joseph's,
Hart's Sleeping
Place, the records inserted into registry at St.
Benedict's):
5148 Weakland, Agnetem (Jacobo/Elisabetha) b. omitted bp.
04-no
day-1853 gp: Jacobo & Sarah Weakland.

I can only assume the James and Elisabeth Weakland listed
here are a
different couple, unless this child died prior to 1860 and
Elmira (also born in 1853) was
born very prematurely.

The Lucinda some people claim for this couple married a
Buck. Any Buck
researchers out there who can help me figure this out?

If you have information - or even a hunch - about this
matter, I'd love
to hear from you.

Jeannette Jones Sosa

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