This is a photo of Mary Lydia Webster. Mary was born on 11 June 1904 at Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio to Willis Vance Webster and Emma Stanton.1 Mary died at the age of 98 on 2 June 2003 at Columbus, Franklin, Ohio.2 She was a school teacher retiring after 44 years of service.3
The photo was probably taken about 1907-1908 when Mary was about three or four years of age. The photo itself measures 3-1/8” x 5-3/8” and is mounted on a decorative board measuring 5-1/4” x 8-7/8”.
I have compiled a family tree for her family, but since Mary and two of her siblings passed away within the last 12 years (one as recent as 2009), I’ve decided not to post the tree. Mary never married and does not have any descendants of her own, but she had many nieces and nephews and was referred to as “Aunt Mary” in her obituary. I will begin contacting them to see if they would like this photo.
What I will share is the following:
- Mary’s parents, Willis Vance Webster and Emma Stanton were married on 23 August 1888 in Belmont County, Ohio.4
- Willis was born on 1 March 1861 at Quaker City, Guernsey, Ohio,5 and died on 15 April 1945.6 According to his death certificate, his parents were Thomas Webster and Lydia Richardson.
- Emma was born in October 1864 in Ohio,7 and died on 30 October 1958 in Columbus, Ohio;8 I have no information on her parents.
Some of you who read my main genealogy blog know that Websters run deep in my family tree. And it is quite possible that Mary is a very distance cousin of mine. As much as I would love to keep the photo for that reason, there are nieces/nephews and grand-nieces/nephews that deserve to have this photo among their family treasures.
Sources
1. "Mary L Webster ‘Aunt Mary,’" The Columbus Dispatch, 5 June 2003, p. 9C; database, GenealogyBank (genealogybank.com : accessed 2 December 2011), Newspaper Obituaries. Also, 1910 U.S. census, population schedule, Columbus Ward 2, Franklin County, Ohio, enumeration district (ED) 51, sheet 12A, p. 119 (stamped), dwelling 216, family 235, Willis V Webster; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 December 2011); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624, roll 1180.
2. "Mary L Webster ‘Aunt Mary.’"
3. Ibid.
4. "Ohio, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database and digital images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org : accessed 2 December 2011), Webster-Stanton (1888). Also, 1910 U.S. census, pop. sch., Columbus Ward 2, Franklin County, Ohio, ED 51, sheet 12A, p. 119 (stamped), dwell. 216, fam. 235, Willis V Webster.
5. 1910 U.S. census, pop. sch., Columbus Ward 2, Franklin County, Ohio, ED 51, sheet 12A, p. 119 (stamped), dwell. 216, fam. 235, Willis V Webster. Also, "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," database and digital images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org : accessed 2 December 2011), Willis V Webster (1945).
6. "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," database and digital images Willis V Webster (1945).
7. 1910 U.S. census, pop. sch., Columbus Ward 2, Franklin County, Ohio, ED 51, sheet 12A, p. 119 (stamped), dwell. 216, fam. 235, Willis V Webster.
8. "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 December 2011), Emma C Webster (1958).
Orphan Photo #104
A reader asked the following question in a comment today: Are there any sites that are strictly for unidentified photos?
