Jesse Weldon (deceased) was born in Toronto, Canada, January 6, 1830. His parents, Isaac and Nursus (Valley) Weldon, were natives of Pennsylvania and Canada, respectively. His father died when he was eleven years old. and he lived with his mother till 1845, when he went to New York, and in 1848 to Fairfield County, Ohio; thence to Logan. Hooking County, where he resided till December 1857, and came to Union County. May 11, 1856, he married Martha a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Wooley, by whom he had nine children ; of them eight are living-Frances; Nursus B., wife of Eugene Smith; Isaac; Martha J.; Emma V.; Frederick E.; Solomon J. and Samuel W. Sarah E., wife of Thomas Davis, is deceased. Mr. Weldon was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died July 18, 1880, aged fifty years. He started in life a poor man, but by energy and industry he made for himself a reasonable competence. He left to his family seventy-six acres of well-cultivated land.