"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904. p. 838.

SIMEON G. WELLER lives on a farm two and one-half miles southwest from Leone,
Adams county, Washington. He was born on January 8, 1941, at Geneseo, New York,
and was the son of Peter R. and Margret (Allbright) Weller, the father a native
of New Jersey and the mother of Pennsylvania. While young the parents removed to
New York, settling in Livingstone county, where they lived the remainder of
their lives. The father was of English descent, while the motherís ancestors
were from Holland. Mr. Weller, senior, was a farmer by occupation, was twice
married and reared by his first marriage a family of fourteen children and five
by the second. The subject was the eldest of the latter family, and his brothers
and sisters are Martin, James, Emma and Thomas B.
     At the age of fifteen years young Simeon Weller joined a party on its way
to settle in a new section of the state of Iowa. He arrived there in 1856 and
remained four years, when he went to Pikes Peak, Colorado, where he remained
until 1863. He then went to the territory of Idaho, where he was engaged in
mining for twelve years, after which time he returned to the east and lived the
following eleven years. In 1886 he came to Washington and the following year he
filed a pre-emption on the land where he now lives. He passed through the hard
times of the 1893-94, suffering with the rest of the Big Bend farmers, but he is
now in well-to-do circumstances, owning his place and the proceeds of a section
of land which he rents. He also has a herd of well-bred cattle and some horses,
hogs, and so forth.
     In 1876 Mr. Weller was married to Ada Lessy, daughter of John and Angelia
(Page) Lessy,  the father a native of Connecticut and the mother of New York.
The parents of Mrs. Weller settled in Brown county, Wisconsin, and there spent
the greater portion of their lives until they died.
     To this union have been born two children, Charles B., of Adams county, and
Alice, married to Roy Hudleson, an Adams county farmer. The latter has two
children, Ruth and Sadie.
     Mr. Weller is an active Democrat, but has never held office, save that of a
member of his school board. In fraternity circles, he is known as a member of
the F. and A. M. and the K. of P. The family belongs to the Church of Christ.

Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net