HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG3961.AM: Jay Weaver, 1877-1961
Papers: 1898, 1926, 1941
Davenport, Thayer County, Nebraska: Spanish-American War veteran
Size: 1 folder
BACKGROUND NOTE
Jay Weaver, son of Solomon and Lucy Weaver, was born in Thayer County, Nebraska, on January 26, 1877. He served with the 1st Nebraska Infantry during the Spanish-American War. He married Mabel Clark on July 4, 1899, at Davenport, Nebraska. They had one child, a daughter Wilda. Jay farmed for a few years in Thayer County, but then the couple divorced and Jay married Adela Toogood on July 8, 1907, at Colorado Springs, Colorado. They moved to Tripp County, South Dakota, where they farmed and eventually had six children. Jay and Adela divorced in the 1920s, and Jay married Mame (Pollock) Crow on May 31, 1929, at Ellensburg, Washington. Jay Weaver died on April 13, 1961, and is buried in Terrace Heights Memorial Park at Yakima, Washington, next to his third wife.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This collection consists of one folder of papers relating to Jay Weaver’s military service. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence written by Jay Weaver while serving in the Spanish-American War. The letters date from May-November, 1898. Also included in the folder are a pension certificate, 1926, and an award certificate for his service, 1941.
Note: Thomas Thiessen published quotes from some of Jay Weaver’s letters in the article, “The Fighting First Nebraska: Nebraska’s Imperial Adventure in the Philippines, 1898-1899,” Nebraska History 70 (1989): 210-272.
INVENTORY
Folder
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- Correspondence, 1898
Pension certificate, 1926
Award certificate, 1941
- Correspondence, 1898
Subject headings:
1st Nebraska Infantry
Military service
Soldiers — Nebraska
Spanish-American War
Veterans — Nebraska
Weaver, Jay, 1877-1961
TMM 10-17-2019