WALTER AND SUSAN WEIGAND FAMILY

It is not known when George (Yerk) Weigand, father of seven sons who were stone masons like himself, came to this country. His son, John, who lost his first wife, came here in 1848 bringing with him his two daughters, Eveline and Barbara and his osn, Joseph. Barbara later married Adam Keller and lived on a farm on River Road northwest of Naperville.

When the family first came to this ocuntry, they lived on a farm on Roosevelt Road and Finley, the present site of a Holiday Inn.

Joseph moved to Naperville after he married Mary Schwartz at SS Peter and Paul Church, who lived south of Naperville. They purchased a small farm on the corner of West Street and Spring Avenue from Hiram Fowler for $650. They had five children+ William, George, Joseph, Walter, and Hattie.

After his wife’s death, he married Mary Faser and had three children: John, Ida, and Barbara.

In 1906, Walter married Susan Schomer of Aurora. After renting for several years, they built a home a 13 North Main Streetand raised a family of eleven children, one of whom only lived for a few months. They were: Bernard, Lawrence, Carl, Richard, Genevieve Becker, Walter, MaryBrewzewski, and Rita hamilton.

Joseph was in heating and ventilating and also a volunteer fireman for 33 years, thirteen of which he was fire chief. He was also the first full-time chief of the fire department. Bernard was a welder and lived in California with his brother Walter, who was also a plumber. Lawrence was a butcher and lived in Texas. Richard was a welder and lived in Chicago. Mrs. Weigand died in 1947 and Walter died in 1971 at the age of 96.