Samuel Weller
Samuel Weller, farmer, P. O. Centerville. Samuel Weller, son of John and Elizabeth Weller, was born November 29, 1826, in Washington Township, Montgomery Co., Ohio. He moved, with his parents, on to the farm where he now resides (1881) about fifty-three years ago; with the exception of a few years it has always been his home. To the visitors at this day it looks, from the splendid improvements he has made, and the general keeping of his farm, that he has no migratory notions in his head. His education he received in the home district school, kept in a log house with flattened saplings for seats and puncheons for writing desks, upon which he says the booys used their Pen and Barlow knives pretty freely. Raised on the farm, he did the chores of a farm boy until he was large enough to plow. The plowing done then would not at this time, be called much more than scratching, yet farmers managed to raise fair crops, particularly where there was as many good farm boys as there was on the Weller homestead. Mr. Weller has never had any particular political aspirations; yet at kind solicitation of friends and neighbors, he has served then as School Director and Township Trustee several years. He was a member of the Board of Trustees under whose present townships hall was built in Centerville (1880). Farming is his delight, at which he is a success. He is now the owner of 389 1/2 acres in this township. He was married, May 16, 1854, to Miss Mary C. Kirby, daughter of John and Margaret (Pence) Kirby; from this union eleven children were born, nine of whom are now living. Samuel Weller and wife entertained sixty of their personal friends at dinner the first Sunday of their housekeeping.
Mrs. Weller’s father was native of New Jersey, and her mother of Ohio, Mrs. Weller having been born in this State July 29, 1834. She has had eleven children born to her of this union, viz., John C. (deceased), Charles W. (deceased), Lucinda J., Anna L., Laura B., Walter H., Arrilla J., Arthur S., Carrie F., Minnie E. and Mary M.
From The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, W.H. Beers & Co., 1882