Mrs. Orville Webster

WEBSTER, MANDIGO, CRANDALL, RALSTON, RHODES, JAMES, JOHNS, MULLIGAN, WALSWORTH

Posted By: LuAnn Goeke (email)
Date: 9/27/2009 at 18:09:19

Mrs. Orville Webster Obituary - Miss Robay Mandigo was born in Brownsville, Jefferson county, N.Y. April 11, 1837 and passed away at the home of her daughter Mrs. Anna Crandall in Cedar Rapids. When 13 years old she came with her parents to Jackson county, Iowa. Her family was among the pioneers in that part of the state. In 1855 she married Orville Webster. Together they started life in a log house made by their own hands. Rugged, hardy people, they founded their family in hard work and homelike interests.

Nine children came into the home, six of whom are still living. They are John L. Webster, William S. Webster, Mrs. Lenore Ralston, Mrs. M.W. Rhodes, Mrs. Anna Crandall and Mrs. Julia B. James. In addition to the children there are three sisters surviving, Mrs. Sarah Johns of this city, Mrs. Jane Mulligan of St. Helena, Neb., and Mrs. Minnie Walsworth of Monticello. There are also several grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Mrs. Webster was a woman of simple but loyal faith and religious character. She played her part nobly and with intense activity during the years of her strength and then waited patiently during the years of weakness until the end came. Surely it can be said of her, "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of corn cameth in his season.” - 20 Feb 1920, Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, IA, pg 1.