This remarkable man of God first saw the light in Albemarle County, Virginia, February 13, 1773. When he was about eighteen years of age, he gave his heart to God and united with a Baptist Church. In April, 1796 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Gilmore, and the next year - 1797 - he left the Old Dominion, came to the newly constituted State of Tennessee and settled in Sumner County, near Castalian Springs. He most probably cast his membership with Station Camp, where he remained until 1806, when he became a constituent member of Bledsoe's Creek (now Hopewell) Church. He was their first clerk, and, in 1807, he was made deacon, which office he filled with honor to himself and the cause till God called him home. He was a deacon in the Lord's house for fifty years. He and his yoke-fellow, Deacon John Wilks, were perhaps called on oftener, and did more general church work than any two deacons of their day, and one rarely ever went without the other as long as Father Weathered lived. I have been struck with the frequency with which their names occurred in the various church records over the country. He was not a man of many words, but was remarkable for his sound judgement and correct conclusions which caused his counsel to be sought far and near. He was able in prayer, and powerful exhortation. Religion was his theme and he was never known to speak evil of anyone. He peacefully breathed his last, without a struggle, and went up to God December 5, 1857, in the eighty-fifth year of his life. He was ripe for the harvest, and on his couch at night, without sickness, his spirit shook off its house of clay and leaped across the mystic river into the glory land. His funeral was preached by Elder E. B. Haynie with a touching talk by the aged Elder John Wiseman, to whose ministry he had listened for half a century. He was then laid away to await the resurrection of the just.