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2824 GEOPQIA AND GEORGIANSDoctor Weaver began the practice of medicine in Putnam County in 1882,and from 1887 was a resident of Eatonton. In his profession and in everyother thing he undertook Doctor Weaver was distinguished for his leadership.He was always a student and a hard worker in his profession, and contributedmany addresses and formal papers to the meetings of county and state medical societies. He served as vice president for the Eighth Congressional District Medical Society and for many years was president of the Putnam CountyMedical Society. He was also a member of the American Medical Association, and was vice president of the Surgeons' Medical Association of Georgia.He was surgeon for the Georgia Railroad and a member of the GeorgiaState Board of Health.His interests and activities outside of his profession command specialmention. In 1909 he began an active campaign in behalf of the agriculturaland livestock interests of Putnam County, lecturing and otherwise carryingon a propaganda to promote diversified farming and stock raising. DoctorWeaver was called the father of the first peach canning establishment inGeorgia, a company which has been in constant operation for more thantwenty-three years and has proved highly profitable and beneficial. He waspresident of the company from its beginning until his death. He was alsopresident and was the organizer of the Eatonton Co-operative Creamery, theonly one in the South. It was organized in 1910, and the plant is one of mostmodern equipment, and there is operated in connection a refrigerating andice making plant. The creamery is supplied largely from special herds ofhigh grade Jersey cows. Doctor Weaver was a director and was one of theorganizers of the Middle Georgia Bank at Eatonton, and was also the ownerof and directs the farming operations of between 1,600 and 1,700 acres ofland in that county. Fraternally he was a Royal Arch Mason, and a memberof the Baptist Church.In 1884 in Putnam County Doctor Weaver married Miss Tommie Carruth,daughter of Thomas and Hattie (Talbot) Carruth of Wilkcs Countyand a great-grandniece of Governor Mathew Talbot of Georgia. Her fatheris a prominent merchant and planter at Mansfield, Louisiana. DoctorWeaver's three children were all born in Eatonton. Hattie Talbot is a youngwoman who since the completion of her education has taken up school workand is now connected with the schools at Talbotton in the county named inhonor of Governor Mathew Talbot, one of her relatives. Henry GradyWeaver, the second child, was named in honor of the famous Georgia oratorand statesman. This son was born an hour after Henry Grady's death, andwhen only one'day old, undervthe guidance of his father's hand, signed acheck to a subscription fund for raising a monument in honor of ColonelGrady. This son is a graduate of the Georgia School of Technology, was fora time a designer for the Haynes Motor Company of Kokomo, Indiana, andis now assistant general manager of the Sun Motor Car Company of Elkhart,Indiana. The third child, Carruth Weaver, is a student at Milledgeville.Doctor Weaver himself came of a family which has always amplified education and culture, and furnished his own children with the best of collegeadvantages. Doctor Weaver started life without a dollar except what his ownhard work and energies procured. He had the pleasure of knowing that hislife had been a success in every way. His standing in the community, hismany friends, his own fine family, were all decided proofs of a successfulcareer.HON. CHRISTOPHER BOWEN CONYERS. Actively identified with a profession which has a most important bearing upon the progress and stableprosperity of any section or community and the one which conserves thepublic welfare by furthering the ends of justice and maintaining individualrights, there is no more highly esteemed member of the Brunswick Circuit