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John Wesley Weeks Family
Back row standing:
Nellie Josephine Weeks, Adelbert Wesley Weeks,
Ina Rosella Weeks, Bob Knox, Mary A. (Mamie) Akers.
Front row: Lewis Albert
Weeks, Eva Gwendolyn Weeks, Isabella,
Josephine Taylor Weeks holding Coral Belle McHenry, Wesley Orton McHenry,
John Wesley Weeks, Mary Belle (Mamie) Weeks, and Winifred Faye McHenry.
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Ernest Albert Weeks
Ernest Albert Weeks, the eldest brother served a teller in a bank in Denver
for many years and retired as a bank employee. He married Mary Akers (called
Mamie).
Ernest lived to an age of 79 and after an unexplained quarrel in his last
years, never spoke to his brother Bert again, even though Bert was dying
of blood cancer when Ernest left on a trip.
Bert's last words were "Did Ernest leave?" Nellie replied, "Yes, he did Bert."
Ernest and Mary had three children, Lewis Albert, Eva Gwendolyn, and Ernest
Clyde. Lewis left no heirs although he was married to Grace, who died in
childbirth, and to Hilda, who outlived him.
Eva married Benny Quick and had three children, Joe, Virginia, and Barney
(Benny, Jr.). Joe Quick resided in Florida.
He wrote a book, "Descendants of Samuel Weeks".
Ernest researched and published a book on the Descendants of Samuel Weeks
that, although it contained several errors, is highly regarded by other
descendants of Samuel Weeks who had lived in the Weeks Brick House in New
Hampshire.
He also wrote a small book based on his desert experiences when he and his
brother Bert (Adelbert) were prospecting together.
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Carrie L. Weeks
When the family moved to Laramie County, Colorado where John was Postmaster,
they lived near a lake infested with mosquitoes that caused daughter Carrie
and his wife Isabella to become ill and die. They were buried in Fort Collins,
Colorado.
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John Peter Weeks
John Peter Weeks died eight days after he was born in Pleasant Mount, Missouri
on 21 Jun 1875.
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Mary Belle Weeks
Mary Belle Weeks lived in Scottsbluff County from 1887, when her father
moved from Colorado to locate on a farm near Morrill.
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~1898 Mary Belle Weeks McHenry and
Winifred Faye McHenry
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Nellie Josephine Weeks
Nellie was born in a sod hut in Eldon, Missouri. Although Nellie was only seven
years old when her mother died, tears still came to her eyes when she was seventy
and spoke of her mother. At age thirteen, she was engaged to a young cowboy who
gave her a tiny diamond ring.
Her father urged her to go live with her brother Ernest and his wife Mamie in
Denver. She attended school only through eighth grade. Later she shared a room
with her brother Adelbert (Bert) and worked at a dry goods store, called Three
Rule, as a clerk. During this time s he owned only three dresses. One to wear
to work, one to wash and dry, and a Sunday best.
At this time she chose to call herself "Helen". Sometime during this time she
was offered a job as a children's governess on a trip to Europe. She was afraid
of becoming unemployed and turned the offer down.
Sometime around 1908, she met George W. Bonney and they were wed in Denver on
October 12, 1908. He took her to Cripple Creek where he was chief of police at
the time. Nellie was a member of the Rebecca Lodge. Later they moved to Denver
because of son Raymond's asthma problems, as advised by their doctor, W. W. King.
Nellie was a loving mother and wife and her family was her career. She made a
good home for her husband and three children. She was active in politics in the
1930's, holding the position of Precinct Judge and Committeewoman in Denver.
When the depression came, her husband lost his Cadillac painting business.
Nellie took what work she could find, such as cleaning houses and school cafeteria
work, as well as working with the Democratic Committee women. When Nellie and
George qualified for the Old Age Pension, it was their salvation. Husband George
died in 1949 and Nellie went to live with daughter Ina and son-in-law John Bott.
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Nellie Josephine Weeks Bonney
and George Raymond Bonney
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Nellie Josephine Weeks Bonney
and George Washington Bonney
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She fell and broke her hip and had to have a pin in it, so was dependent upon her
daughter from that point to a few years before her death at age 90. She lived in
California, Louisiana, Newfoundland, Wisconsin, and Texas. Because of health
problems she had to move to a nursing home. She was a loving, kind mother and
remained quite alert until a month before her death. She was laid to rest in the
Crown Hill Cemetery in Denver, Colorado, where her husband was buried.
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OBITUARY - Nellie Josephine Bonney was one of seven children of John and Isabella
Weeks. She was born in a sod hu in Eldon, Missouri on June 15, 1878. She married
George W. Bonney on October 12, 1908 in Denver, Colorado.
The couple made their home in Cripple Creek, Colorado where George was Chief of
Police and Nellie belonged to the Rebecca Lodge. After the birth of their first
son, George Raymond, they moved to Denver where Lyle Douglas and Inabelle were born.
Nellie was a loving mother and wife and her family was her career. She was active
in Politics in the 1930s, holding the position of Precinct Judge and Committeewoman
in Denver.
After the death of her husband in June of 1950, she made her home with her daughter
and son-in-law, living in california, Louisiana, Newfoundlan, Wisconsin, and Texas.
She had spent the last two and a half years under nursing home care.
She will be laid to rest in the Crown Hill Cemetery in Denver, Colorado, where her
husband is buried.
She leaves her sons, George Raymond Bonney of Tucson, Arizona, and Lyle Douglas
Bonney of New Carrollton, Maryland, and her daughter, Inabelle Bott of Aldine,
Texas. She has nine grandchildren, Bonney Jo Bott, John Paul Bott, II, and Harry
Bruce Bott of Aldine, Texas; Alan Ray Bonney and Marsha Bonney of Tucson, Arizona; and
Douglas Lyle Bonney, Gary Wayne Bonney, Donald Bonney, and Linda Bonney of New
Carrollton, Maryland. Her brothers and sisters, mother and father all passed on
before her.
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Nellie Josephine Weeks Bonney
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Adelbert Wesley Weeks
On the entrance of the United States into the World War, in 1917, Adelbert Wesley
Weeks volunteered his services at Ft. Logan, Colorado, before the draft law was
enacted by Congress, and was assigned to the 7th U.S. Cavalry at Ft. Bliss, El Paso,
Texas, and was held on patrol duty on the Mexican border until the war was over.
Adlebert Wesley Weeks
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Ina Rosella Weeks
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