. Memorial poems and brief ancestral record of the Webster family and descendants . IfU«KT£EN HUMDKICD AND Iiui-U *-n RiST HARTFOKn: Press of Thk IlAnTFORo Printing Co.(Elihu Goer Sons,)16 State Street,1904. 71 2267 207 GENEALOGICAL SOCfETYOF UTAH TO THE IVIEMORY OF IVIY BELOVED PARENTS THIS ^s^olx7m:e IS AFEECTIONATEI^Y DEDICATED. PREFACE. J?OR many years, since the death of my beloved parents, I haveanticipated putting in print this collection of poems, some ofwhich were written by request, thus getting them in convenientform, and to dedicate the same to the fond memory of my deardeparted pa
. Memorial poems and brief ancestral record of the Webster family and descendants . IfU«KT£EN HUMDKICD AND Iiui-U *-n RiST HARTFOKn: Press of Thk IlAnTFORo Printing Co.(Elihu Goer Sons,)16 State Street,1904. 71 2267 207 GENEALOGICAL SOCfETYOF UTAH TO THE IVIEMORY OF IVIY BELOVED PARENTS THIS ^s^olx7m:e IS AFEECTIONATEI^Y DEDICATED. PREFACE. J?OR many years, since the death of my beloved parents, I haveanticipated putting in print this collection of poems, some ofwhich were written by request, thus getting them in convenientform, and to dedicate the same to the fond memory of my deardeparted parents, and to the sacred home not less dear because ofthe nearly fifty years since the good-bye was given to thoseleft behind. The object of this book is principally to perpetuatethe memory of dear departed friends. J. c. w. A book is a living voice. It is a spirit, walking on the face of the continues to be the living thought of a person separated from us by spaceand time. Men pass away; monuments cruml^le into dust—what remainsof lives is human thought. .iw/y^ D — ^ .. ^ BENJAMIN WEBSTER was born in Wilton, Maine, February 24, 1802. He was the eldest son oi Joseph and Ruth B. 2, 1823, he married Miss Mehiiable Eustice, and to themwere born four children, all of whom have departed this life. January 26, 1832, he married Miss Harriet, daughter of Johnand Sybil Cloiigh, and to them were born six children, four ofwhom at this writing are living. Benjamin Webster died June 15, 1884, and Mrs. HarrietWebster died August 8, 1887. For upwards of fifty years, during all their married life, theylived in the house, an illustration of which is given on anotherpage. MY MOTHER. The following poem,— written by Mrs. LOUISE J. R. Chapman —waspresented to J. C. Webster of Hartford, Conn., npon his return from thefuneral of his mother, Mrs. Harriet Webster. MY MOTHER. He giveth His beloved sleeps Theres a rift in lifes beautiful music,—A shadow across its b
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