On This Day - January 25

WEAVER PETER "PETE" SLOAN was born on January 25, 1884 in Pike County, Indiana. Weaver is the youngest child of six born to Alexander Campbell Sloan (1840-1926) and Paradine Woolsey (1842-1922). In 1900 Weaver is 16 and helping his father on the family farm. Seven years later he is married to Maggie Pearl Beck in the neighboring Gibson County and their first son arrives shortly after.  Son Donald follows in 1910.  Both sons indicate on census records that they were born in Illinois, but I can not find Weaver in any 1910 census. In Dec 1911 Weaver marries for the second time to Florence Cannon in Knox County, Indiana. He was living in Vincennes and working as a laborer. He had two children with Florence, a son and daughter. In 1918 he indicates an occupation of travel agent, I believe it means he is a traveling salesman.  Weaver's 1918 military registration says he is working for Cappel-Gerrard Produce Co. that is located in Peoria, IL which is 225 miles away from his residence. In the 1920 census the family is living in Vincennes and he is working as a traveling man for a poultry house. In 1928 he is living in Indianapolis and working as a poultry man. It appears that Weaver has no further contact with his children from his first marriage. In their marriage announcements and obituaries, Weaver is never mentioned. In 1930 the family is living on a farm in Brown  County, Indiana. By 1940, Weaver and Florence have moved to Monroe County, Indiana.  Both of their children had married. At the time of the census, Weaver had been out of work for 13 weeks and is seeking employment, and he had only worked 30 weeks the prior year for $360.  He does own his home that he values at $800. In 1942 he is living in Bloomington, Indiana and is self employed but does not indicate what type of business.
Weaver's wife dies in 1982 at the age of 86.  Weaver dies in 1985 at the age of 101.

The Vincennes Sun-Commercial, 08 Mar 1985, Fri, Page 9, 

Vincennes, IN, newspapers.com

I was unable to find anything about his baseball years.  There were no newspaper articles about it. 

Weaver is my 3rd cousin 2x removed.