[1][2][3] According to family lore, the progenitor of the family was an unknown German linen weaver, surnamed Weber, that fled from the Holy Roman Empire to the United Provinces of the Netherlands due to religious persecution, likely because he was a member of the Reformed church.

One daughter is listed as living in Cocke County, Tennessee with her husband, Benjamin O'Dell.

[8][9] The Weaver family would intermarry with the predominantly Anglo-American, notably Scotch-Irish (descendants of Lowland Scots and northern English settlers in Ireland), population of the region.

[11] John Weaver maintained friendly relations with the local Cherokee in the valley and built an Indigenous-style house, before purchasing 320 acres of land to construct a European log cabin as his family's permanent residence.

[16][17][18] Richard Malcom Weaver Jr. was a University of Chicago scholar of English, Anglo-Saxonist, and traditionalist conservative considered one of the founders of modern American conservatism.