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Posted at findagrave.com: Memphis Democrat, September 20, 1951, Funeral Held at 2 p.m. Monday for Etna Farmer. Bernard Isaac Weir, a farmer living about ten miles southeast of here, died at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Davis County Hospital, Bloomfield. He had suffered a heart attack at 4 p.m., and died shortly after arriving at the hospital. He was 53. Born Oct. 7, 1897, near Burnside, Ill., a son of Clarkson and Christine Decker Weir, the deceased came with his parents to Scotland County when he was 11. As a youth he became a member of Antioch Christian Church. In 1923, at Edina, he married Miss Ilah Wilson of Scotland County. They moved to Illinois and lived there about 18 years, returning in 1941 to Scotland County, in the Etna neighborhood. Survivors are the widow; a brother, Forrest Weir, Fontana, Calif.; a half brother, Hugh Weir, Rio, Ill.; two half sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Aldrich, Roseville, Ill., and Mrs. Lena Pomeroy, Twin Falls, Idaho; his father-in-law, Charles E. Wilson, and a brother-in-law, Buford Wilson, both of Memphis. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday from the Payne Chapel, Rev. W. A. Dahlem officiating. Burial was in Memphis Cemetery.

Birth	7 Oct 1897	Burnside, Hancock Co., Illinois
Residence	1900	Pilot Grove, Hancock Co., Illinois
Death	Sep 1951	Bloomfield, Davis Co., Iowa
Alt name		Bernard Weir
Burial		Memphis Cemetery, Memphis, Scotland Co., Missouri

Father	Clarkson Leander Weir (1857 - 1925)
Mother	Christine Salena Decker (1859 - 1930)
Sibling	Forrest Lee Weir (1904 - 1963)