Eugene Ernest Weber was born on a farm about 4 miles east of Marion on April 3, 1890 to Adolph Daniel Weber and Josephine Katherine Uhl. His father, Adolph, had migrated from St. Clair County in Illinois with his wife and their first three surviving children, Robert, Martin & Ella to a farm east of Marion in 1884. Adolph, along with other German families were responsible for the formation of the Zion United Church of Christ in Marion, where they could worship in their native tongue. He became known as an excellent sausage maker and butcher and in 1901 moved his family into town and opened up a meat market on W. Main Street and later opened a meat market on N. Market Street. In 1912, he began a partnership with Louis Fluck, his son-in-law, who married his daughter Ella Weber. The partnership lasted until Adolph’s retirement in 1921. The Fluck family continued operating a meat market grocery store on N. Market Street for decades.
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