Artemus Ward Weekley

Publish date 1917.
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Artemus Ward Weekley.

Birth: Jun., 1840, Ohio.
Death: Nov. 23, 1920, Norton County, Kansas.

Wife: Emma Waltin Weekley (1849 - 1914).

Children: Christopher J Weekley (1873 - 1965), Martha Jane Weekley Sheley (1886 - 1980), Harvey Weekley (1890 - 1957), Stanley Weekley (1894 - 1940).

Burial: Norton Cemetery, Norton, Norton County, Kansas.

Mr. Weekley came to Norton county and settled in section 6, of Belle Plain township.  He was a Farmer, and his post office was Norton, Kansas, which was 3 miles north west from the farm.

Mr. Weekley was also a Civil War Veteran, being in the seventh Iowa Infantry, CO. C.

Weekley, Artemus, Private; Age 20. Residence Mahaska County, nativity Ohio. Enlisted Aug. 25, 1862. Mustered Aug. 25, 1862. Mustered out June  3, 1865, Washington, D. C.