This morning, i got a notification from FamilySearch, a great free genealogy site that has a collaborative tree as well as tons of birth, marriage, and death records. It turns out today is Phoebe Weaver’s (my third great grandmother) birthday. So, I spent some time learning a little about her.
Phoebe Weaver was born 18 February 1840 in Ancaster Township in present-day Ontario. She was the daughter of John Weaver and Mary Misner. I can’t find a birth registration; I’m not sure one exists. Her birth information is gathered from her death registration as well as census data.
Some researchers have her mother Mary as being married to a Richard Dell after John Weaver. This is also reflected on FamilySearch. I’ll have to do some more digging because some of the dates don’t line up.
A Pheby Dell, aged 11, does appear in the 1851 census living in the household of Richard and Mary Dell.
In March 1860, she married Morris Vansickle. They lived on a farm in Townsend Township in nearby Norfolk County and had six children: Edwin (my 2nd great grandfather), Hannah, Harvey, Austin, Arthur, and Abram.
Phoebe Vansickle died on 30 August 1920 at her son Arthur’s house in Brantford. The cause of death is listed as “senile decay” on her death registration. She is buried at Bloomsburg Baptist Church Cemetery in Norfolk County.
