368                 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

ters. Laura became the wife of M. B. Crist, of Morgan county, Indiana.
Alice married Elias Kilmer, of Clay City, who was clerk of the circuit
court at the time the county seat was removed to Brazil. After his death
his widow married Joseph Lind, of Terre Haute, who died, the mother of
three children, William M. Frump, another child, is now a resident of
Bowling Green; M. B. Frump is of Washington township; Ben Franklin
Frump, of Jasonville, Indiana; B. D. Frump, also of Washington town-
ship; Alma, wife of Bud Chapman, now deceased; Rosilla F., deceased;
and Mary C., wife of John W. Knipe, who lives with her father. The
venerable and revered mother of this family died September 11, 1901,
aged seventy-five years and five months. Mr. Frump has been blessed
with thirty-nine grandchildren, of whom thirty-one are living, and with
seventeen great-grandchildren, of whom thirteen are alive. These rising
and honorable representatives of his own flesh and blood are the inspira-
tion and the solace of his passing years, and in the younger generations
he lives his earlier life anew. Thus his old age is lightened of its burdens,
and is kept fresh and green.

    WILLIAM FRANCIS WEBSTER.—Prominent among the native-born
citizens of Dick Johnson township is William Francis Webster, who is
the worthy representative of a family that for four-score years has been
actively identified with the agricultural prosperity and progress of Clay
county, his grandfather, Daniel Webster, having located in this part of
the state in 1829. Mr. Webster was born in this township January 4,
1863, a son of John Lewis Webster, of colonial ancestry. Tradition tells
us that two brothers named Webster came to America a century or more
before the Revolution, and that one of them, who settled in New Eng-
land, numbered among his descendants Noah Webster, the lexicographer;
John, the scientist; and Daniel, the statesman. The other brother located
in Virginia, where succeeding generations occupied the homestead which
he improved.
    In 1829 Daniel Webster came from Virginia to Indiana, entered
government land in Dick Johnson township, and on the farm which he
reclaimed from the wilderness he and his wife, whose maiden name was
Rhoda Arthur, spent the remainder of their lives.
    A native of Virginia, John Lewis Webster was born October 9,
1823, in Franklin county. At the age of six years he came with the
family to Dick Johnson township, and was here brought up. He remained
beneath the parental roof-tree until attaining his majority, assisting his
father in the pioneer labor of clearing and improving a homestead. For
a number of years after he was engaged in the manufacture of shingles,
subsequently, in 1867, going to Brazil, where for six years he was
engaged in the lumber business. Going then to Indianapolis, he was
there a real estate dealer and agent until 1879. Returning to Dick John-
son township, he then bought land in section twelve, and after living there
a few seasons sold and bought the farm now owned, and occupied by
William F. Webster, his son. Here he carried on general farming until
his death, July 6, 1897. He married first Fanny Brenton, who bore him
ten children. His second wife, the mother of the subject of this brief
sketch, was before marriage Martha Malissa Deupree. She was born
April 17, 1834, in Johnson county, Indiana, near Franklin, and as a young
woman taught school a few terms. Her ancestors for a number of genera-
tions resided in Virginia, where her father, Joseph W. Deupree, was born