William B. Weatherby

1813 - 1893  (79 years)

• Name	William B. Weatherby
  Born	21 Jul 1813	Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1831	, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States
  Died	15 Mar 1893	Fairfield, Lenawee, Michigan, United States
  Buried	Weston Village Cemetery, Weston, Lenawee, Michigan, United States
  Person ID	I48135	Wyman
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	Sarah C. Carpenter ,   b. 10 Aug 1818, Shelby Basin, Orleans, New York, United States ,   d. 25 Feb 1903, Fairfield Twp, Lenawee, Michigan, United States  (Age 84 years)
  Married	31 Dec 1835
  Children	1. William W. Wyman ,   b. 1 Feb 1844, Fairfield Twp, Lenawee, Michigan, United States ,   d. 31 Mar 1880, Fairfield Twp, Lenawee, Michigan, United States  (Age 36 years)  [Adopted]
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2010
  Family ID	F16698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 21 Jul 1813 - Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States Residence - 1831 - , Shiawassee, Michigan, United States Died - 15 Mar 1893 - Fairfield, Lenawee, Michigan, United States Buried - - Weston Village Cemetery, Weston, Lenawee, Michigan, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  (Illustrated history and biographical record of Lenawee County, Mich. ... , John I. Knapp, 1903, pages 116-119.) WILLIAM WEATHERBY was born in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, July 21st, 1813. His father, William Weatherby, was born near Boston, Mass., July 22d, 1769, and lived there until about 1823, when he moved to Tioga County, N.Y., where he resided eight years, when he came to Fairfield, Lenawee County, Mich., and died there August 19th, 1835. December 8th, 1797, he married Relief Miller, of Marlborough, Mass., by whom he had eight children, William being the youngest of his six sons. Mrs. Relief Weatherby was born in Marlborough, Mass., February 20th, 1775, and died in Farfield, this county, July 18th, 1835. William Weatherby, the subject of this sketch, lived with his parents until he was about eighteen years old, when the care of the family fell upon him, his father and mother being old and feeble. In 1831 he came to Michigan, and located the west one-half of the southeast one-quarter of section 9, in Fairfield, this county, bringing his parents with him. That part of the township was then a perfect wilderness. He followed marked trees and an Indian trail through the woods to his land, and ws obliged to cut a road about two and a half miles to get his wagon through. He and his sister being the housekeepers. This was just before the Black Hawk War, and occasionally Indians came along and wanted to stay all night, which caused the "women folks" considerable uneasiness, and the "men folks" were none to serene, as all Indians were reguarded wit suspicion. William was warned to appear at Adrian, with his gun, ammunition and rations,but he was attacked with ague, which excused him, much to the relief o his mother and sister. He afterwards added to his first purchase, until he owned 260 acres of land, which he cleared up, improved and built good buildings upon. In 1873 his house burned, with nearly all its contents. The following year he built a new and better house. In the spring of 1878 he purchased the south sixty acres of the northwest one-quarter of section 28, in Fairfield, his adopted son and heir, William W. Wyman, occupying the home farm. He was the first man to own sheep in the town of Fairfield, and his wife spun, wove and made into cloth the first wool manufactured in the township, Mr. Weatherby making two trips to Tecumseh on foot to get the wool carded and the cloth fulled and colored. His flock of sheep was twice distroyed by wolves, with the exception of one old ewe, the pioneer sheep of the county, which both times escaped, and afterwards raised five lambs in thirteen months. She was subsequetly taken to Bean Creek, in Seneca township, where she was again a pioneer, and repleneshed her kind, and escaped hungry wolves, living to a happy old age. One day in December, a few years after he came, some of th settlers had brought their hogs to his place, the custom in those days. A little before noon a man came along with a gun, saying that he had wounded a deer, over in Ohio, and had followed him into that vincinity, and learning that Mr. Weatherby had a famous dog, after dinner, suggested that all hands turn out with the dog and catch the deer. Everybody was ready for the sport, and away they went. There was a good "tracking snow" at the time, the deer's tracks being easily followed, and before they had got beyond Mr. Weaterby's land, the deer -- a large buck -- was captured. He had secreted himself in a tree top, and it so happened that Mr. Weatherby, Benjamin Baker, John Reynolds and the dog came upon the animal and startled him, when Mr. Weatherby told his dog to catch him. The dog at once obeyed and grabbed him by the left ear. This so enraged the deer that in the struggle he threw the dog over his neck, and in this way the deer came down a little revine in the direction of Mr. Weatherby, who jumped behind a small elm tree, which the deer, in his efforts to rid himself of the dog, ran against. At that instant Mr. Weatherby seized him by his large horns and brought them with all his strength against the opposite side of the tree, holding him there until Benjamin Baker cut his throat. The dog kept his hold until strangled by the blood that spurted into his mouth. This was considered the best dog in the entire settlement. December 31st, 1835, Mr. Weatherby married Sarah C. Carpenter, daughter of elder James and Catherine Carpenter, of Fairfield. Mrs. Weatherby never had any children, but a sister died, leaving an infant, which she brough up, was adopted, and became the legal heir of the Weatherby estate, as follows: William W. Wyman was born in Fairfield, February 1st, 1844, and died March 31st, 1880. July 3d, 1865, he married Miss Salina DeLand. By this marriage were born as follows: Cora S., born in Fairfield, January 26, 1867, died December 2, 1878 ; Delight, born January 6, 1869, died March 1st, 1874 ; Laura A., born March 30, 1871, and was married to George B. Schomp, September 18, 1887, and is now the mother of two cildren ; Blond, born September 25, 1875, married to James B. Green, February 17, 1895, and nowthe mother of two children. Mrs. Selina Wyman was born in Fairfield, August 13th, 1847, and was the daughter of Joseph and Sally DeLand, who were pioneers in Fairfield. Mrs. Sarah C. Weatherby was born in Shelby, Orleans County, New York, August 10th, 1818, and died from injury (the breaking of the femur) February 25th, 1903. William Weatherby died March 15th, 1893.