Virginia G. (Jennie) Watlington (b. 1866), daughter of Elizabeth Ozier and William T. Watlington of the Mt. Pinson community married Allen Kent Weir (b. 1862), son of David M. and Martha J. Cain Weir, who were in nearby Civil Dist. #1 west of the Forked Deer River in 1880 Census. Samuel L. Weir had settled land on Bear Creek west of Pinson before 1850 census and had a family of 6 boys and 2 girls, of whom David M. was the oldest son. D. M. and William R. Weir are shown as land owners on the 1877 Beers Map of Madison Co. southwest of Pinson along the headwaters of Bear Creek. In the 1860 Census David M. was in nearby Hardeman Co. with his family but is back in Civil Dist. 1, Madison Co. in 1880. Therefore Allen Kent Weir may have been born in nearby Hardeman Co. in 1880.
Rufus T. Weir, a younger brother of David served with Polk's Light Artillery Battery for a year or more in the Civil War. In the 1880 Census he is living with his mother Mary, sister Sarah and four children. Evidently his wife had died after the birth of James, b. in 1874. He is listed as a railroad worker, though he is living on a farm near his brothers William A. and David M. Weir. David and Martha's family consisted of at least five sons born between 1855 and 1865, of which Allen Kent was the fourth.
Jennie and Allen Kent settled on a farm in old Dist. 17 of Madison Co., and reared a family of six boys and three girls who lived to maturity. Some of them stayed with the family farm but others prepared themselves for other tasks. Raymond learned accounting and served as a State of Tennessee tax auditor and collector. Landon worked for many years as a car repairman in the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Shops in Jackson. Bob Taylor married Minnie Mae Parker and worked with the Robert Bryant Parker family in cutting, hauling and marketing timber for many years. They lived at Beech Bluff, Jackson, and in later years bought a home in the Malesus community where Weir met Watlington again two generations later. Bob Taylor's daughter Rachel R. waited three long years of World War II for Paul H. Watlington to get home from the Pacific Theatre of War. Their paternal parents were distant cousins and had known one another's families across the years. Kent Weir is reported to have said there were ``only three Watlingtons you could trust: his wife Jennie, Dr. Obe, and Mack Rob Watlington.'' Perhaps Rachel Weir found another one, and then they produced some more you could trust.