Extracted from the Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Thursday, October 29, 1936

Frank Weaver, 83, Trail Driver, Dies

From the Fort Worth Bureau of The News.

FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 28. -- Frank Marion Weaver, 83, pioneer cattleman and trail driver, died at his home on Penn street early Wednesday after a long illness. Born at Abbeville, Miss., Mr. Weaver came to Texas as a boy. His parents settled at Sulphur Springs, where his father became a merchant and landowner. At 20 young Weaver married and went into business for himself, buying cattle in East Texas and driving them overland to Kansas.

Mrs. Weaver died eighteen years ago and Mr. Weaver married Miss Louie Hardison here in 1921. He lived in Fort Worth for forty-seven years. Among the property he owned at his death was a 35,000-acre ranch in Dawson County.

Mr. Weaver at one time owned the Fort Worth baseball team with Walter Morris and his son, James A. Weaver. They bought the franchise of the cats from W. H. Ward in 1909 and the elder Weaver remained the chief stockholder in the club until W. K. Stripling, Paul LaGrave and associates bought the franchise and physical assets of the club.

Surviving are his wife; two sons, Juel E. Weaver, Fort Worth, and J. R. Weaver, Lamesa; a daughter, Mrs. K. W. Rose, Lamesa; a brother, John Weaver, John Weaver, Duncan, Okla., and six grandchildren.