American political family
The Weaver family is a locally prominent American family that founded Weaverville along Reems Creek in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
Origins.
According to family lore, the progenitor of the family was an unknown German linen weaver, surnamed Weber, that fled from the Holy Roman Empire to the United Provinces of the Netherlands due to religious persecution, likely because he was a member of the Reformed church. He married a Dutch woman and fathered 3 sons, including John. 
However, a descendant of the Weaver family in Cocke County, Tennessee recorded in 1950 that the family had come from Germany, with the original immigrant Weaver being a man named John George Weaver (Waber or Wärber). John arrived on the ship ""Halifax" in 1752, which departed from Rotterdam and arrived in Philadelphia. He settled in Shenandoah County, Virginia. One daughter is listed as living in Cocke County, Tennessee with her husband, Benjamin O'Dell. 
The Weaver family would intermarry with the predominantly Anglo-American, notably Scotch-Irish (descendants of Lowland Scots and northern English settlers in Ireland), population of the region.
Per the Family Tree DNA Weaver DNA Project, the family has the Y-DNA haplogroup J-FTC77280, originating in the Balkans.
History.
Initial settlement.
John Weaver maintained friendly relations with the local Cherokee in the valley and built an Indigenous-style house, before purchasing 320 acres of land to construct a European log cabin as his family's permanent residence.
Slavery and the Civil War.
John's son, Montraville, became a slaveholder. Despite the vast majority of Germans in the Antebellum South not using slaves and many being generally opposed to the practice, there was a minority of German slaveholders located primarily in the Shenandoah Valley and other parts of the region.
As a slaveholding family, many members of the Weaver family fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, such as Captain Elbert Weaver (1841–1935), who was Montraville's first son, and Private Abraham Weaver (1832–1913), who deserted in northern Georgia after his unit was slaughtered during Wheeler's October 1863 Raid. Abraham was the son of John Weaver of Cocke County, TN.
Richard M. Weaver.
Richard Malcom Weaver Jr. was a University of Chicago scholar of English, Anglo-Saxonist, and traditionalist conservative considered one of the founders of modern American conservatism. He was a descendant of Montraville Weaver, founder of Weaverville. 
He claimed his home, the American South, was "last nonmaterialistic civilization in the western world"," a view espoused by the Southern Agrarian movement which promoted a Neo-Confederate view of Southern history.
Places named for the family.
Weaver College.
Weaver College, founded in 1851 as Weaverville College, was a co-educational Methodist academy located in Weaverville. It was founded on land gifted by the town's founder, Montraville Weaver, and operated from 1873 to 1934 before being merged with Rutherford College to form modern-day Brevard College.
Weaver's Bend.
Bend of the French Broad River in Cocke County, Tennessee.