Ora Rush Weed (October 6, 1868 – May 4, 1942) was a Methodist minister who founded Weedville, a small farming community in Arizona.

The area is unincorporated which means that the land is not governed by Peoria, the local municipal corporation, instead it is administered by the county.

Weed established the Old Path Church, cemetery (1921) and boarding school, and a small religious community developed around these structures.

Weed named his church and cemetery "Old Path" after a passage from the bible in the book if Jeremiah which states the following:[1][2][4] Rev.

Weedville sustained itself with farming, sales from a small country store which he ran, and by making and selling brooms made from broomcorn which Rev.

The original Old Path Church bell hangs on a post located in the grounds of the cemetery.