Allen E. Weller
Allen E. Weller, who is the owner of four farms comprising nearly six hundred acres of land in Sugarcreek township, where he makes his home, was born in that township and has lived there all his life. He was born on a farm a mile and a quarter southwest of Bellbrook on February 8, 1864, son and only child of Perry and Sarah (Wilson) Weller, both of whom were born in the neighboring county of Montgomery, but who came over into Greene county in 1861 and here spent the remainder of their lives.
Perry Weller was born on January 28, 1838, and remained in Montgomery county until 1861, when he bought a farm of one hundred and seventy-two acres something more than a mile southwest of Bellbrook in this county and there established his home. His wife died there on February 8, 1900, and in 1913 he bought the old White farm a mile and a half west of Bellbrook, moved onto the same and there spent his last days, his death occurring in August, 1914.
Reared on the home farm in Sugarcreek township. Allen E. Weller received his early schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and supplemented the same by a course in the schools at Centerville, over in Montgomery county. After his marriage in the spring of 1887 he began farming on his own account and has ever since been thus engaged, though of late years he has been living practically retired from the active labors of the farm, his sons and responsible tenants taking charge of his farms. Mr. Weller is now the owner of four farms in Sugarcreek township, his holdings comprising five hundred and ninety-two acres. He is a Republican, but has not been a seeker after public office.
Mr. Weller has been twice married. On March 23, 1887, at Centerville, he was united in marriage to Jessie F. Bradford, who was born in that village, daughter of Ebenezer and Cynthia (Browning) Bradford, the former of whom is still living at Centerville, and to that union were born five children, namely: Henry Bradford, born in 1890, who is living on the home farm, taking charge of the same for his father; Edna, born in 1892, who married George Carey, of West Milton, and has one child, a son, Vincent; Perry, born in August, 1893, who is at home with his father; Sarah. born in 1895, who married Walter Dinwiddie and is now living at Dayton, and Raymond, born in 1896, now living on one of his father's farms southwest of Bellbrook and who married Ruth Mills and has one child, a son, Byron. The mother of these children died in 1903 and was buried at Centerville. In 1906 Mr. Weller married Nellie Printz, of Waynesville. Mr. and Mrs. Weller are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. For the past six or seven years Mr. Weller has been a member of the local school board.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918