Weaver family (North Carolina)

The Weaver family is a locally prominent American pioneer family that founded Weaverville along Reems Creek in Buncombe County, North Carolina and were early settlers of Cocke County, Tennessee. == Origins == According to family lore, the progenitor of the family was an unknown German linen weaver, surnamed Weber, that fled from the Holy Roman Empire to the United Provinces of the Netherlands due to religious persecution, likely because he was a member of the Reformed church.

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