James Swan Weems

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James Swan Weems married Betsy Alexander of Charlestown, Indiana on the 11th of January, 1821.From Charlestown they went to Alexander's Mills, near Germantown, Bracken County, Kentucky - where all of their children were born.

They moved from Germantown, Kentucky to Winchester, Ohio, where they resided for a short time and then went to Charlestown, Indiana.Later they went to Louisville, Kentucky, where they resided in a huge old-fashioned, slate colored, two-story, brick house, on First Street, between Green and Walnut streets.Later, they moved to Waynesville, Indiana, where their youngest son Dr. R. F. Weems had located.There the mother died.

About the time the family left Germantown, or when they lived in Ohio, the father, James Swan Weems, who had been a soldier in the War of 1812, and had won the rank of Major and friendship of General Jackson by his bravery in the Battle of New Orleans, left home.He went away with a surveying party in the employ of the government.They went to Florida.Major James Swan Weems carried with him land warrants and money.He never returned.Two years later(according to the statement of Mrs. Margaret Jane Weems Carter), a member of the surveying party returned and stated that Major Weems had died down south of cholera and had sent home his fine gold watch and $200 with his dying message of love to his loved ones.

According to a statement of his son, James Alexander Weems, Major James Swan Weems was finally lost to his family and that sometime during the Rebellion, he returned to Louisville, old and feeble but with great wealth, to seek his children, who had married and scattered.From there, he (Major Jas. S. Weems) went to Baltimore, where he died at a hotel room soon after his arrival.The wife of his brother, Geo. Washington Weems, administered to him and nursed him during his final illness.

Of these two stories, it is difficult to decide which is the true fact.

FAMILY OF JAMES SWAN WEEMS AND HIS WIFE,ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

1. Dr. James Alexander Weems
2. Mrs. Margaret Jane Weems Carter (of Huron, S. Dak.)
3. Mrs. Martha Ann Weems Robinson (twin)
4. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Weems Brewer (twin)
5. Dr. Robert Long Weems

James Alexander Weems married Martha Virlinda Prather, the daughter of Jeremiah Prather and Agnes Maria Merrick.They married at Jeffersonville, Indiana, and their children were:

1. James Pulaski Lafayette Weems
2. Jeremiah John Alexander Weems
3. Robert Francis Weems
4. Charles Freemont Weems
5. Martin Henry Clay Weems
6. Abraham Lincolm "Walter" Weems