Obituary Record

Funeral services for John Weston, widely known lumberman, were held late today with burial following near Logtown. Mr. Weston, who had been seriously ill for more than a week, died at 1:30 o'clock this morning at his home at Logtown. He was 63 years old.

Mr. Weston, an active figure in the development of Hancock County, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Amelia Baxter Weston; two sons, J. Roland Weston of Waveland and Harold B. Weston of Logtown; one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Robinson of Birmingham, AL; two brothers, D. R. Weston and A. C. Weston of Logtown; and seven grandchildren. He was the son of Henry S. Weston founder of the H. Weston Lumber Company, and brother of the late Horatio S. Weston, head of the Lamar Life Insurance Company, Jackson.

Mr. Weston was president of the H. Weston Lumber Company and its companion company, the Riviera Land and Improvement Company, which have holdings of more than 110,000 acres in Hancock and Pearl River Counties, Mississippi, and in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. He was also president of the Union Lumber Company, LTD. of British Columbia and Oregon.

As vice-president from 1912 to 1919 and as president for the past four years, Mr. Weston was a guiding figure in the Weston Lumber Company through its peak years, when it ranked as one of the most important lumber companies in the South, and in his 34 years of association with the company, he was a dominating influence in the development of all Hancock County, especially the town of Logtown, which the company created, and Bay St. Louis.

Mr. Weston was born at Logtown, February 23, 1870. He was educated at Soule College at New Orleans and started work with the Weston Lumber Company at the age of 19. He spent all his life at Logtown except a few years after his marriage in 1897.

He was a Knight Templar, a Shriner, a past master of the Blue Lodge of the Masonic Order, and a member of the Pickwick Club of New Orleans. He was a leader in Sunday school work.

Pallbearers at funeral services were Roy Baxter, Leo W. Seals, Clem Weston, Coney Weston, Corburn Weston, and Horatio Weston.

Source: Picayune Item 6-15-1933