![]() ![]() This is an area where George Weston, Deacon Asa Weston’s son, first purchased land in the mid-1850s. Deacon Asa Weston died in 1879 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.Ī portion of today’s Westlake was once part of Olmsted Township. The land he sold in 1871 was near today’s Bradley and Center Ridge roads intersection. Unless there was another married couple in the Cleveland area named Asa and Thankful Weston, which is a possibility, though unlikely. Something that is inexplicable is that cemetery records indicate that his first wife, Thankful, died in 1852 but there is a deed stating that “they” sold land in Brooklyn Township which was recorded in 1866. Weston, to Hadsell or Rutherford around 1930, is that we were unable to find a deed for the purchase of land in Dover in Deacon Asa Weston’s name, though he did sell land in Euclid Township in 1855, in Brooklyn Township in 1866 and in Dover Township in 1871. The irony of this bit of family lore, which was recounted by his grandson, A.E. Eventually he did come here to live, in the 1850s.” He was so impressed by this gaiety and liveliness that he decided that if he should ever buy some land for a home, it would be in Dover Village. In the distance he could see the sky lighted by the Dover Blast Furnace and could hear the bugles and horns of the stage coach announcing its arrival. In order to save money, Deacon Asa walked from Euclid to Toledo and back.Īccording to Hadsell and Rutherford’s "A History and Civics of Dover Village": "On the return, as he neared Dover, it was nearly evening. His first glimpse of Dover was when he was hired by a man who owned land near Toledo to deliver the taxes owed, in person. ![]() He immigrated to Ohio in 1816 and settled in Euclid Township, east of Cleveland. He was born in 1793 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the hometown of a number of the original pioneers of Dover Township.
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