Iva Senora Webster 18 years of age
and her sister Laura Loretta Adelaide Webster 17 years.

Photo was taken in Oregon 1890.

Iva and Laura had four younger sisters and two brothers. The two sisters pictured here are from left Bertie Enola Webster 21 years of age. Bertie died at 71 from complications of diabetes. Mary Edith Webster 23 years in this picture. Mary died at 72 years of age also from diabetes.

This picture was taken in Oregon 1899.

Another son Frank Philo Webster born May 26, 1886 lived a healthy life and was employed by the railroad. He never married and died Feb 7 1965.

Eunice Edna Webster was the youngest, born Jan 31, 1889 and died June 19, 1948 from complications due to diabetes.

Mary Catherine Lynch-Webster and Zimri Philo Webster

Zimri's great-grandfather was our Revolutionary ancestor, Philologus Webster son of Sgt. John Webster III and Rhoda Lewis.

Was an only son. He served in Revolutionary War. He was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, near Columbus, OH. Philologus was listed in the 1790 census as of Southington Town, CT. Died at age 66 years. Was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His name appears as PHILO (an abbreviated form) served in Captain ASA BRAY's Company; arrived in camp third of April; as of May tenth his name appears on the pay-roll of that Company; and he was discharged 15th May; all in 1777-- as having served one month and twenty-two days. He had m. in Cheshire, New Haven County, Conn., resided in Simsbury, Conn. until 1812, when he removed with his family to Cazenovia, New York; where he remained only a short time; and then removed and settled on a large farm in Clinton Twp., OH, just north of Columbus, OH; where he died; and was buried on his own farm.

See the "Hansen Genealogy" pages to better understand the relationship here as there are several generations involved.

Zimri's 8th generation Grandfather was:

Major William Bradford the eldest son of Governor William and his wife, Mrs. Alice Carpenter-Southworth Bradford was born, Plymouth, 17th June 1624. He m. Alice (daughter of Thomas of Weymouth & Welthian [Loring] Richards. They were married in 1651 or 1654, in Plymouth. Major William Bradford died, Kingston, MASS., 20th February (O.S.) 1703; or first of March (N.S.) 1704 aged eighty years. His wife, Alice, was born 1627 England and died 12th December 1671, aged fourty-four years.

Major William Bradford, next to MILES STANDISH , was the chief military man of the Colony. He was Commander-in chief of the Plymough forces in King PHILLIP's WAR, and exposed himself frequently to all of its perils. He received a musket ball in his flesh, at the Narraganset Fort fight, the 19th of December 1675; and carried it the remainder of his life. Nearly a thousand Indians fell; and perhaps a hundred fifty of the English were killed or wounded in the desperate mid-winter battle with the Indians. In that war, he held the rank of "Major".

He was an "Assistant" and Deputy Governor of Plymouth from 1682 to 1686; and again from 1689 to 1691. He was one of Sir ED. ANDROS" Council of 1687, and chief Military Officer of the colony; Treasurer of the Province, 1679-86 and '87 and '90; Captain, 1659; and Major 1675, 1677 and 1685; Member of Council 1691 to 1698. He had his home in what was known later (1850) as Kingston, on the south side of the JONES RIVER. His will was dated 29th of June 1703.

The Eighth of the several children of Major William and Alice (Richards) Bradford was MERCY [or Mary] BRADFORD.(1589-1657) the "MAYFLOWER PASSENGER": Minister and Leader of the Pilgrim Fathers: For thirty-one years, Governor of Plymouth Colony.
(1621-32: 1635: 1637: 1639-43: 1645-56)
Son of William Bradford, SR., of England. Baptized 19 March 1589/90; Came from Austerfield, Yorkshire. Landed at Plymouth, Mass (of New England).
Married as his second WIFE Alice Carpenter-Southworth, daughter of Alexander Carpenter.

Source the book of "Webster" by James Cozart, Canonsburg, PA ©1966

Our Mayflower Ancestor was Governor William Bradford

(From the book of "Webster" by James Cozart © 1966)

GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORD was probably the most distinguised person among our earliest English ancestors. One record (source unknown at the moment) offers this summary statement as to GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORD: "He must be placed first in that great triumverate of Plymough men, of whom it has been said that STANDISH was the hand: WINSLOW< the tongue: and BRADFORD the guiding brain".

He was born in 1588, and baptized at Austerfield (Yorkshire), England, on the 15/19 day of March 1589/90. He was the third child and only son of William Bradford ("A") of a John and Margaret (Gresham) HANSON, the village shopkeeper. She had married, as of 21/28 June 1583/4, William Bradford, who died or was buried in Austerfield, England, 15th July 1591, when his son was only two years old. The mother remarried, promptly.

Then , the son went to live with his grandfather, (B) WILLIAM, a country squire of Austerfield, who was buried 10th January 1595/6: after which young WILLIAM lived with his uncle ROBERT BRADFORD, who resided in the little village of Scrooby, a place about five miles from Austerfield; and near the estate of the BREWSTERS, in Nottinghamshire.

There, William joined a small group which met frequently in the home of WILLIAM BREWSTER, in Scrooby, who house later (1606) became a Separatist Church. Our William joined the church where the Rev. Richard Clifton and Rev. John Robinson preached; and soon thereafter was numbered among the "Separatists", where he early became a leader.

While his educational advantages are said to have been very limited, he applied himself to study and became quite proficient in Dutch, Latin, French and Greek. Later in life, he devoted much time to study Hebrew, because of his desire to read the scriptures in their original tongue.

In 1609, William Bradford, removed with the congregation then under the Reverend John Robinson, to Leyden, Holland; where the first Puritean church was established, and where in 1613 he was the owner of a house, and was one of the most influential members of the community. When he came of age, he received considerable property from his father's estate. Not being successful in some commercial undertakings, he early learned the art of "fustian or friese weaving".

His name appears as WILLIAM BRETFOORT, fustian worker from Osterfieldt, England, as being affianced on November 15th 1613 to Dorothy May, of Wisbeach (or Witzubts), Cambridge, Eng. the daughter of Elder John and Cordelia (Bowes) May, the bans being published in Leyden. However, the marriage took place elsewhere; as "on December 9, 1613, William Bretfoort, aged twenty-three years, was married to Dorothy May, aged sixteen years, in Amsterdam, Holland."

Then on July 22, 1620, they embarked on the SPEEDWELL, for England; and only after many mishaps and troubles were they able, on Sept. 5th (or 16th) 1620, to set sail in the MAYFLOWER, from Plymouth, England, with the first company of PILGRIMS. Soon after arrival in the new world, and before landing at PLYMOUTH, while William was away from their vessel, on December 7/17th, his wife Dorothea fell overboard and was drowned. On December 21, 1620, an exploring party from the Mayflower landed; on the 26th the Mayflower dropped anchor in the harbor of Plymouth.

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