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Re: Mr. Weir's wives[edit]

This page needs work re: Mr. Weir's wives. First as to Mary Kline Weir, specifically the year of her divorce from Mr. Weir. Previous edits intimated that she passed away prior to Mr. Weir's subsequent marriage to Aeola Dickson Weir, but the Pittsburgh Post Gazette carried Mary Kline Weir's obituary in 1964, which was 7 years after Ernest Weir's death and 19 years after Aeola Weir's death.

Other edits had implied that when Aeola Weir divorced Mr. Weir in 1941 that she "took the children" (Ernest T. Jr. and Henry Kline Weir) to Florida with her. This was nonsense. In 1941, Henry and Ernest Jr. were grown men, thirty-five years old and married, and Ernest Jr. was working for Weirton Steel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:547:2:5122:1966:2A3C:DDA1:F8C0 (talk) 18:31, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you can find a published, unbiased sources that say all this, by all means—add the information, and include an inline citation per {WP:CITE]]. As for Ernest Jr. and Henry accompanying their mother to Florida, why are grown men prevented from accompanying their mother anywhere? YOU made the assumption that she "took" them as if they were children. In fact, I assume that the grown men accompanied their mother to comfort her and to set her up in a home down there. At any rate, the cited work clearly says they accompanied her. For you to claim otherwise violates WP:ORIGINAL. - Tim1965 (talk) 04:12, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The New York Times reported (and I quote directly) "She has been here (Florida) with two sons and a daughter in law.". Her two sons presumably refers to her two sons, Ralph Siebert and Willard Siebert, and not her "step sons" Henry Kline Weir and Ernest Tener Weir Jr., who at the time had a living mother, Mrs. Mary Kline Weir. The times article makes no reference to henry or Ernest Jr. traveling to Florida with their father's soon-to-be-ex-wife. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:547:2:5122:7070:4602:AEA5:625B (talk) 16:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]