The
Webster Family
We were taking pictures at Butternut Ridge Cemetery and met a
young man visiting his father’s grave. He
said there were a lot of his relatives buried in Butternut. The name wasn’t
familiar as far as I have researched the early families. I checked the records
for the cemetery and found there were 12 names in the records. Plus there are 2
that are of the Myers family. The first to arrive was Sheldon he raised three
children that stayed in Olmsted. Rodney
Comfort, Mary Ann Webster (Hyde) and David (or Davis) Davis was a Veteran of
the Civil War. There are 83 Veterans of the Civil War buried in Butternut Ridge
Cemetery.
One of the first things we learned about doing genealogy is
to see if you can find someone else researching the same family. I checked the internet to see if any Digital
books about the Webster family exists. I found a book History and genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family by William
Holcomb Webster and finished by Rev Melville Reuben Webster D. D. in 1915. Before we downloaded it we checked to see who
Gov. Webster was. In 1656 Mr. Webster was elected Governor of the Colony of
Connecticut. If our Webster’s are related it would be neat as this would make
the fifth family that has a connection to a leader of the colonies. We decided
to see what we could find since our research into the family we had found a couple
of references to this book. It was 1700 pages. It took a while even with a
Nighthawk R7000. It was worth the time Sheldon Webster is a direct descendent we have a lot of data to be verified and added to the tree.
All data that goes into the tree will meet Genealogical
Proof Standards (GPS).
While we were in there we decided to see if Rebecca Webster Fitch
Walker was a relative to the Governor. We decided to do the search on Thaddeus
figuring it was not as common as Rebecca. I found them in there, as part of the
Seventh Generation, Rebecca's father was a Captain in the army and was killed in an
ambush in the French and Indian War.
Sheldon Webster is also part of the Seventh
Generation. The common Fifth Generation
relative is Deacon Jonathan Webster.
Rebecca lineage is from his son Jonathan and Sheldon lineage is from his
son Benjamin
I have heard from other genealogical researchers we are all
one big family.
