Son of Osborn Weed and Agnes Allen. Husband of Bella Brush Weed. Valentine was a funeral director.
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V.O. Weed Is Dead
Funeral Rites Will Be Held Friday
V. O. Weed, 85, well-known retired Austin business man and intimate of the late great Gov. James Stephen Hogg, died at his residence, 502 Fannin Street, Thursday at 6:15 a.m.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon from the family residence, under the direction of the Wilke funeral home. Burial will be in Oakwood.
For many years, Mr. Weed engaged in the funeral direction business here and at the time of his retirement in 1929 at the age of 80 was the state's oldest funeral director. Born in Tennessee Nov. 14, 1849, Mr. Weed came to Austin in 1874. About a year later he married Miss Bella Brush, member of a well-known Austin family.
Canes, His Hobby
He engaged in the harness and saddlery business shortly after coming to Austin, and later engaged in the livery business of funeral director. In his younger years Mr. Weed was considered a great horseman.
A close friend of the late Gov. Hogg, Mr. Weed was responsible for the planting of fine pecan trees around Gen. Hogg's grave in Oakwood Cemetery. In his latter years, after the trees began bearing, Mr. Weed would gather the pecans and send them to various parts of the state for planting, thereby perpetuatin the Hogg name.
He numbered many of the nation's great among his friends and acquaintances. his hobby during the latter part of his life was the collection of canes. His cane collection numbers several hundreds and includes walking sticks given him by many Texas governors, by Vice Pres. John N. Garner and other noted men.
Widow Survives
Surviving Mr. Weed are his widow, Mrs. Della Brush Weed; three daughters, Miss Daisy Weed, Miss Laura Weed and Mrs. Agnes Weed Abbott; two sons, O. W. Weed of Dallas and Thurlow Weed of Austin; and four grandchildren, Thrulow Weed, Jr., and Osborn Abbott of Austin, and Betty and Edith Weed of Dallas.
As a young man in Austin, Mr. Weed joined the army of young guards who drove the carpet-baggers under Gov. Edmund J. Davis from the state capitol to make was for Gove. Richard Coke, a democrat who defeated Davis. When Davis refused to leave the capitol, the guards marched in with the new civil government behind them.
- The Austin Statesman
August 8, 1935
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V.O. Weed Is Dead
Funeral Rites Will Be Held Friday
V. O. Weed, 85, well-known retired Austin business man and intimate of the late great Gov. James Stephen Hogg, died at his residence, 502 Fannin Street, Thursday at 6:15 a.m.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon from the family residence, under the direction of the Wilke funeral home. Burial will be in Oakwood.
For many years, Mr. Weed engaged in the funeral direction business here and at the time of his retirement in 1929 at the age of 80 was the state's oldest funeral director. Born in Tennessee Nov. 14, 1849, Mr. Weed came to Austin in 1874. About a year later he married Miss Bella Brush, member of a well-known Austin family.
Canes, His Hobby
He engaged in the harness and saddlery business shortly after coming to Austin, and later engaged in the livery business of funeral director. In his younger years Mr. Weed was considered a great horseman.
A close friend of the late Gov. Hogg, Mr. Weed was responsible for the planting of fine pecan trees around Gen. Hogg's grave in Oakwood Cemetery. In his latter years, after the trees began bearing, Mr. Weed would gather the pecans and send them to various parts of the state for planting, thereby perpetuatin the Hogg name.
He numbered many of the nation's great among his friends and acquaintances. his hobby during the latter part of his life was the collection of canes. His cane collection numbers several hundreds and includes walking sticks given him by many Texas governors, by Vice Pres. John N. Garner and other noted men.
Widow Survives
Surviving Mr. Weed are his widow, Mrs. Della Brush Weed; three daughters, Miss Daisy Weed, Miss Laura Weed and Mrs. Agnes Weed Abbott; two sons, O. W. Weed of Dallas and Thurlow Weed of Austin; and four grandchildren, Thrulow Weed, Jr., and Osborn Abbott of Austin, and Betty and Edith Weed of Dallas.
As a young man in Austin, Mr. Weed joined the army of young guards who drove the carpet-baggers under Gov. Edmund J. Davis from the state capitol to make was for Gove. Richard Coke, a democrat who defeated Davis. When Davis refused to leave the capitol, the guards marched in with the new civil government behind them.
- The Austin Statesman
August 8, 1935
Son of Osborn Weed and Agnes Allen. Husband of Bella Brush Weed. Valentine was a funeral director.
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V.O. Weed Is Dead
Funeral Rites Will Be Held Friday
V. O. Weed, 85, well-known retired Austin business man and intimate of the late great Gov. James Stephen Hogg, died at his residence, 502 Fannin Street, Thursday at 6:15 a.m.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon from the family residence, under the direction of the Wilke funeral home. Burial will be in Oakwood.
For many years, Mr. Weed engaged in the funeral direction business here and at the time of his retirement in 1929 at the age of 80 was the state's oldest funeral director. Born in Tennessee Nov. 14, 1849, Mr. Weed came to Austin in 1874. About a year later he married Miss Bella Brush, member of a well-known Austin family.
Canes, His Hobby
He engaged in the harness and saddlery business shortly after coming to Austin, and later engaged in the livery business of funeral director. In his younger years Mr. Weed was considered a great horseman.
A close friend of the late Gov. Hogg, Mr. Weed was responsible for the planting of fine pecan trees around Gen. Hogg's grave in Oakwood Cemetery. In his latter years, after the trees began bearing, Mr. Weed would gather the pecans and send them to various parts of the state for planting, thereby perpetuatin the Hogg name.
He numbered many of the nation's great among his friends and acquaintances. his hobby during the latter part of his life was the collection of canes. His cane collection numbers several hundreds and includes walking sticks given him by many Texas governors, by Vice Pres. John N. Garner and other noted men.
Widow Survives
Surviving Mr. Weed are his widow, Mrs. Della Brush Weed; three daughters, Miss Daisy Weed, Miss Laura Weed and Mrs. Agnes Weed Abbott; two sons, O. W. Weed of Dallas and Thurlow Weed of Austin; and four grandchildren, Thrulow Weed, Jr., and Osborn Abbott of Austin, and Betty and Edith Weed of Dallas.
As a young man in Austin, Mr. Weed joined the army of young guards who drove the carpet-baggers under Gov. Edmund J. Davis from the state capitol to make was for Gove. Richard Coke, a democrat who defeated Davis. When Davis refused to leave the capitol, the guards marched in with the new civil government behind them.
- The Austin Statesman
August 8, 1935
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V.O. Weed Is Dead
Funeral Rites Will Be Held Friday
V. O. Weed, 85, well-known retired Austin business man and intimate of the late great Gov. James Stephen Hogg, died at his residence, 502 Fannin Street, Thursday at 6:15 a.m.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon from the family residence, under the direction of the Wilke funeral home. Burial will be in Oakwood.
For many years, Mr. Weed engaged in the funeral direction business here and at the time of his retirement in 1929 at the age of 80 was the state's oldest funeral director. Born in Tennessee Nov. 14, 1849, Mr. Weed came to Austin in 1874. About a year later he married Miss Bella Brush, member of a well-known Austin family.
Canes, His Hobby
He engaged in the harness and saddlery business shortly after coming to Austin, and later engaged in the livery business of funeral director. In his younger years Mr. Weed was considered a great horseman.
A close friend of the late Gov. Hogg, Mr. Weed was responsible for the planting of fine pecan trees around Gen. Hogg's grave in Oakwood Cemetery. In his latter years, after the trees began bearing, Mr. Weed would gather the pecans and send them to various parts of the state for planting, thereby perpetuatin the Hogg name.
He numbered many of the nation's great among his friends and acquaintances. his hobby during the latter part of his life was the collection of canes. His cane collection numbers several hundreds and includes walking sticks given him by many Texas governors, by Vice Pres. John N. Garner and other noted men.
Widow Survives
Surviving Mr. Weed are his widow, Mrs. Della Brush Weed; three daughters, Miss Daisy Weed, Miss Laura Weed and Mrs. Agnes Weed Abbott; two sons, O. W. Weed of Dallas and Thurlow Weed of Austin; and four grandchildren, Thrulow Weed, Jr., and Osborn Abbott of Austin, and Betty and Edith Weed of Dallas.
As a young man in Austin, Mr. Weed joined the army of young guards who drove the carpet-baggers under Gov. Edmund J. Davis from the state capitol to make was for Gove. Richard Coke, a democrat who defeated Davis. When Davis refused to leave the capitol, the guards marched in with the new civil government behind them.
- The Austin Statesman
August 8, 1935
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