Joseph Weisiger, Jr., engaged in stock raising and farming in
the Fourth District of Sumner County, is a son of Joseph and
Mary A. (Kincaid) Weisiger. The mother was a daughter of Judge
John Kincaid, of Kentucky, an ex-member of Congress. Our
subject was born in Danville, Ky., in 1850, being the second of
nine children, five living. The father was of German descent,
born in Danville, Ky., in 1825. The grandfather was also named
Joseph and was a native of Kentucky and a practicing physician
at Danville until 1853, when he moved to Texas and remained
there until his death in 1881. The father was raised at
Danville and received a good collegiate education, being a
graduate of Center College at that place. In early life he
engaged in the drug business at Frankfort, Ky., and then at Danville, but later has been a farmer.
He was married in 1847;
moved to Sumner County in 1870, and has since then resided in
the county near Hendersonville, engaged in farming. The mother
was born in Lincoln County, Ky., in 1826, and died in 1884, a
member of the Old School Presbyterian Church. Our subject
received a collegiate education at Danville, and came with his
parents to Sumner County in 1870. In December, 1871, he married
Miss Fannie C., daughter of John W. and Eveline Head. They had
five children, three living: Eva, Etta and William. Mrs.
Weisiger died January 19, 1884, and in May, 1886, he married
Miss Callie, daughter of John B. and O. E. Baker. Mrs. Weisiger
was born in Sumner County in 1864. Mr. Weisiger first settled
at Hendersonville where he remained until 1877, then moved to
his present farm, one mile and a half southwest of Gallatin on
the Nashville pike, where he owns eighty-three acres of land,
and is quite successful in both farming and stock raising. He
is kind and charitable in disposition and in politics a Democrat; his first presidential vote was for
Horace Greeley. Mr. and Mrs. Weisiger are both members of the Old School Presbyterian
Church.