Stella Boniface Weaver (1856 – June 3, 1936) was a stage actress from Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

. In the late 1870s and 1880s she was an important
member of the company of Lester Wallack, at 13th Street and Broadway (Manhattan). She appeared in Wallack productions of False Shame (1877), School For Scandal (1878), Our Club (1878), and My Son (1878).

Stage career

The daughter of George C. Boniface, Weaver went on stage as a youth. Her fellow actors included Sol Smith Russell

Sol Smith Russell

Sol Smith Russell was a 19th century American comedic stage actor who began performing as a boy during the War Between the States.-Early Life:...

, John Edward McCullough

John Edward McCullough

John Edward McCullough was an American actor.He was born in Coleraine, Ireland. He went to America at the age of sixteen, and made his first appearance on the stage at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, in 1857...

, John T. Raymond, and Lawrence Barrett

Lawrence Barrett

Lawrence Barrett was an American stage actor.-Biography:He was born Lawrence Brannigan to Irish emigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey. He made his first stage appearance at Detroit as Murad in The French Spy in 1853...

. In 1878 Weaver teamed with Charles Coghlen, Rose Coghlen, and John Gibbs Gilbert

John Gibbs Gilbert

John Gibbs Gilbert was an American stage actor whose real name was Gibbs.Born in Boston, he made his first appearance there at the Tremont Theatre, in 1828, as Jaffier in Otway's "Venice Preserved." His original aim was to be a tragedian, but while on a tour through the South and West, the...

 in The Snowball. The same year she was featured in Our Girls by H.J. Byron and appeared with Maurice Barrymore

Maurice Barrymore

Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe —stage name Maurice Barrymore — was the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family and great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore.-Early life:...

 in a revival of The Shaughraun. She acted with
Gilbert, Wallack, and Emily Rigl in an original production of A Child of the State. She supported Wallack in My Awful Dad, somewhat later. At Harrigan's Park Theatre, later renamed the Herald Square Theatre, Weaver was in Old Levender with Edward Harrigan

Edward Harrigan

Edward Harrigan was an American actor, playwright, theatre manager, and composer. Harrigan and Tony Hart formed the first famous collaboration in American musical theatre.-Life and career:...

. She played in a rendition of Ben Hur produced by Klaw and Erlanger and a staging of The First Year, produced by John Golden.

Death

She died at the Home For Incurables in 1936. For many years she resided at the Percy Williams Home on Long Island

Long Island

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. Weaver was survived by a sister, Mrs. Horace McVicker. She had a private funeral and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, in Red Bank, New Jersey

Red Bank, New Jersey

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 11,844 people, 5,201 households, and 2,501 families residing in the borough. The population density was 6,639.1 people per square mile . There were 5,450 housing units at an average density of 3,055.0 per square mile...

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