James Martin Weathered was the son of William Washington and Anna Margaret (Brown) Weathered (see W. W. and Anna M. [Brown] Weatherred).  Jim (J. M.) attended business school.  W. W. and Jim had the Weatherred and Son Dry Goods and Groceries Store on the west side of the Coleman Courthouse square.  The left side of the store had the candy counter first, the big cheese wheel, crackers and other groceries followed.  This was before refrigeration and fresh vegetables in stores.  Apples and oranges were for Christmas.  The kerosene (or coal oil) barrel was by the back door.  Customers brought their oil cans which were filled from a hand pump on the top of the barrel.  Most of the time the stopper to the spout of the oil can was an irish potato.  The right side of the store was for dry goods, bolt material and a thread and ribbon case.  There were upstairs shelves with a bridge walkway across to the other side where there were more shelves.  The upstairs of the store was used for storage when needed.

     W. W. and Jim bought land on the Jim Ned.  To all the Weatherreds; this land was always known as The Ned; part of this land, where the Jim Ned Creek ran through, is now under the waters of Lake Coleman.  When W. W. and Jim closed their store, Jim bought and sold cotton.

     James Martin Weathered married Lucy Ola White in Coleman, June 21, 1905.  They had two daughters, Anne Elizabeth (see C. W. Hemphill, Jr.), born July 8, 1906, and Willie Mae, September 1, 1912, who died in 1928, buried at Coleman. 

     Lucy Ola, born April 18, 1877, in Chappell Hill near Brenham, came to Coleman with her mother, Mrs. Cynthia Hattie White (Mrs. Robert Marshall White) and two of her sisters and her grandmother, Mrs. Graves.  Her father, Dr. Robert Marshall White, died in Chappell Hill, where he was a practicing physician and is buried at Masonic Cemetery there. 

     Jim and Ola had their first date when they met at the Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1904.  They bought a Worlds fair plate as a souvenir to bring back to Anna.  Jim and Ola lived with her mother, Mrs. White, on Liveoak Street.  W. W. bought the house just west of Mrs. White's.