Abraham J Weaver

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Patricia M. Durst-Shaffer

The history of Paint Twp., Somerset Co. is so fascinating, many do not know what stories are hidden as they pass by an area that once an old farm house stood or back in the woods there is an old overgrown cemetery where people who arrived here on covered wagons are buried. Such is the story of Philip Haughman, now spelled and pronounced as Hoffman, who was born in 1765 and came from Maryland into the Morrison Cove area and then to this vicinity bringing with him the first hand loom in Paint Twp. He is listed on the township census as a "Weaver of Cloth". On August 13,1813 Philip Hoffman purchased a tract of land of 223 acres from an Amish farmer named Joseph Troyer, it had been warranted in 1793. He paid $800 for this portion of a larger tract of 445 acres near the present day Berkey Church Of The Brethren. Here he provided a place for lodging for the traveling ministers coming through on horseback and taking the message of the gospel to the scattered families who were carving out their homes along the Shade and Paint Creeks. As they traveled through the thick woodlands of what would later become Paint Twp. they had news of the Hoffman place where the glow of their lamp light in the windows provided a welcome sign of hospitality. On March 1827 Philip Hoffman wrote his Last Will and Testament with neighbors Emanuel and John Seese serving as witnesses.He names his wife Barbara ,his son John and his close neighbor Christian Miller as the executors. By the time the estate was settled in 1838 his son John had died, his wife had died and only his trusted friend Christian Miller was living to handle the estate. The burial place of Phillip Hoffman and wife is not known but I believe it to be in the old cemetery where Christian Miller is also buried along Spruce Run Rd. In tracing the land and those living on it the place must have been what is now known as the Abraham Weaver farm. Here lies the Weaver of Cloth, no longer known to those who pass by.