Gordon L. Webster1,2

b. 1913, d. 1991
FatherWarren Myron Webster1,3,4 b. Jul 11, 1883, d. Dec 10, 1963
MotherBertha DeWitt1,3 b. Oct 6, 1887, d. Apr 2, 1961
     Gordon L. Webster was born in 1913 in KS.1,4,2
     Gordon L. Webster was listed as a son in Warren Myron Webster's household on the 1920 Census in Empire Township, Ellsworth Co, KS.4
     
Group photo of Samuel Jackson DeWitt and Ida Shellhorn DeWitt taken on their 45th wedding anniversary at their home on 4th St., Salina, KS.

Information provided by Myra DeWitt, Gertrude DeWitt Small, and Jane DeWitt Smith, daughters of Lyle B and Hazel Smith DeWitt.

Back row: Lloyd DeWitt, oldest child of Ira and Katie; Merle DeWitt, Florence DeWitt Stites, Clyde DeWitt, Bertha DeWitt Webster, Bertha’s husband “Bud” Warren Myron Webster; Katie Grubb (Mrs. Ira) DeWitt; Ira DeWitt.

Middle Row: Oren Webster, oldest child of Bertha and “Bud” DeWitt; Russell DeWitt, 2nd child of Ira and Katie; “Babe” Fayette Weaver holding one of their twins, either Keith or Kenneth, and Mary Elizabeth “ Marie” Weaver holding the other twin. Keith and Kenneth’s date of birth is 10 July1925. Blanche Beatrice Parks DeWitt (Mrs. Clyde) holding son Dale. Lyle DeWitt (Just above his mother’s left shoulder); Lyle’s wife Hazel Smith DeWitt holding their 4th child, Jane, whose birthday is Nov 14, 1926. On Hazel’s left is Evangeline DeWitt (3rd child of Ira and Katie DeWitt).

Front Row: Gordon Webster, 2nd child of Bertha and “Bud” Webster; Lola Lee Stites, only child of Florence DeWitt Stites; Mary Ellen DeWitt (4th child of Ira and Katie);Gwen Weaver, oldest child of “Babe” and “Marie” Weaver ; Samuel J DeWitt, Ida DeWitt, Gertrude DeWitt (3rd child of Lyle and Hazel DeWitt); Myra DeWitt (2nd child of Lyle and Hazel) and Marian DeWitt, oldest daughter of Lyle and Hazel. At the end of the row, Ida Fay Webster, 3rd child of Bertha and “Bud”.

Photo courtesy Barbara Hettinger

     Gordon L. Webster was listed as a son in Warren Myron Webster's household on the 1930 Census in Empire Township, Ellsworth Co, KS.1
     Gordon L. Webster married Hester M. Farrington, daughter of (?) Farrington.2
     Gordon L. Webster died in 1991.2 He was buried in 1991 at Carneiro Cemetery, in Carneiro, Ellsworth Co, in KS.2
Hester and Gordon Webster, Carneiro Cemetery, Kansas
Photo courtesy of Barbara Hettinger, October 2005

Family

Hester M. Farrington

Citations

  1. [S1233] 1930 U. S. Census, Kansas, Ellsworth County, Empire Township, ED 9, sheet 1B, line 75, dwelling 16, family 16, Kansas, Ellsworth County.
  2. [S1620] Gordon L. Webster and Hester M. Webster Cemetery Marker, Carneiro Cemetery, Carneiro, Ellsworth Co, KS.
  3. [S1543] Barbara Hettinger, "Re: Your Website (Group photo of Samuel Jackson DeWitt and Ida Shellhorn DeWitt)," e-mail to Julia Langel, September 9, 2004, Re: Your Website (Group photo of Samuel Jackson DeWitt and Ida Shellhorn DeWitt).
  4. [S1343] 1920 U. S. Census, Kansas, Ellsworth County, Empire Township, ED 32, sheet 4B, line 66, dwelling 75, family 78, Kansas, Ellsworth County.
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