Thursday's Internet Edition, August 28, 2008.
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- Confederate veteran Isaac O. Weaver (1817-1903) will be memorialized in a ceremony dedicating a veteran's grave marker in Copperas Cemetery on Saturday morning, April 14, at 10:00. The event, a part of the Confederate Memorial Month's activities in Kimble County, is co-sponsored by Frontier Guards Camp #996, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and Mary Harlow Griffith Chapter #16, Order of Confederate Rose.
Weaver, a native of Tennessee, served as a corporal under Captain Knotts in Company B, 15th Northwest Arkansas Infantry. He and his wife, Nersey, moved, from Gorman, Comanche County, in 1898, to Kimble County, where their son, John Franklin Weaver, was to establish a North Llano River ranch that has become one of the state's heritage ranches still in the possession of descendants.
Following the ceremony at Copperas, a motorcade will travel to the Bois d'Arc Creek homestead of Weaver's son-in-law, Confederate Colonel John Griffith. The latter was murdered there March 7, 1889, but the family's log cabin and stake fence are still intact. The property, later owned by James Prentice, is now the ranch holdings of Corky Schwiening, who has graciously agreed to permit Saturday's attendees to visit the site. Colonel Griffith and his wife, Catherine, are also buried at the Copperas Cemetery.
At the completion of the tour, the group will return to Junction for a picnic at the Confederate Reunion Rock in the County Park on the east side of Lake Junction.
The public is invited to attend Saturday's activities.