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Henry Weston of Logtown, Hancock County, Mississippi
Henry Weston was born 09 Jan 1823 in Skowhegan Island, Somerset County, Maine to John Whitney Weston and Sarah "Sally" Parker Walker. Henry and a brother, Levi, migrated from Maine to Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the fall of 1844 looking for better business opportunities. He was also looking for a healther place to live. Several members of his family had died of tuberculosis. He initially got a job floating logs down the Eau Claire River, but later operated a sawmill on the same river. 8ecause of his health, he decided to move south.
Henry migrated to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1846, where he stayed about a month. While looking for a job on the wharf he noticed a schooner hauling lumber from Gainsville, Mississippi to New Orleans. A discussion with the Captain convinced Henry that he should be in Mississippi where the logging industry seemed to be going strong. The captain hired him as a deck hand in return for his passage from New Orleans to Gainsville, Mississippi. As Henry often explained the trip, he left New Orleans on the schooner with everything he possessed in the world tied up in a red bandana handkerchief. Shortly after arriving in Mississippi, Captain William J. "Bill" Poitevent gave him a job working for Poitevent and Favre Lumber Company for $49 a month. His talent was soon recognized and was promoted to the job of sawyer, the most important and highest paid job in the mill. This mill was large for its day, processing 7000 board feet per day. His talents as a first class sawyer became well known and on July 1846 he was offered the job of managing Judge David Robert Wingate's sawmill in Logtown, Mississippi. This mill was located on Bayou Homa at its junction with Pearl River. This mill had the capacity of 9000 board feet per day.