Union County OhArchives Obituaries.....Webster, Lester J. March 1, 1898
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The Marysville Tribune
Lester J. Webster was born September 13th, 1817, in Delaware county, Ohio, and 
died at his home near Pharisburg, March 1st, 1898, aged 80 years, 5 months and 
18 days. He moved to Union county, near Irwin, in the year 1821, where he 
learned the carpenter trade with Gen. William B. Irwin, well known by the 
earlier residents of the county. He moved to Leesburg township about 25 years 
ago.
The deceased was married to Miss Mercy Dee, on October 8th, 1841, with whom he 
lived happily more than 50 years, having celebrated their golden wedding in 
1891. to them were born eight children, three sons and five daughters. One son, 
the eldest born, answered his country’s call in the hour of need and have his 
young life a sacrifice to liberty and right. The remaining children are all 
living and were present at their father’s funeral, except one daughter, who 
lived in Kansas, and could not be present.
On the 12th of April, 1892, the companionship of more than half a century was 
broken, and the wife and mother passed to the higher life. 
Father Webster was a man in the true sense of the word. His honesty and strict 
integrity have builded [sic] him a memorial in the hearts of those who knew 
him. Quietly and unostentatiously his life has been lived, and other lives have 
been strengthened by its influence. When valor and patriotism were demanded, he 
pledged all that was sacred and dear, and in response to his country’s call 
enlisted in Co. B, 321 O. V. I., serving nearly two years, and being discharged 
at the end of that time for disability. 
He was a member of the Universalist church, and zealous, earnest supporter of 
its doctrines and teachings. He found joy and peace in its precious and 
priceless pledges of God’s infinite, unlimited and impartial goodness and mercy 
and love, and through this faith, death was robbed of its sting, and for him 
the grave has no victory.


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