Son of Jonathan Webster & Lucy (Sterling).
He married on Sept. 2, 1851, Harriet W. Learned in Boston, Suffolk, MA.
Old Colony Memorial Newspaper
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Saturday, Aug. 30, 1856
Plymouth Public Library Microfilm
It is our melancholy duty to make a record of the sad accident which occurred yesterday on Billington Sea. Dr. Erving Webster, of this town, in company with his father, brother, and son, a boy of four years of age, had gone to the pond for the purpose of enjoying a sail. It was a windy day, and the place is notorious for the treacherous squalls which sweep across it. In coming round the island, when opposite Hathaway's point, a sudden flaw upset the small boat they were in, and left them clinging to its bottom, which they had all succeeded in reaching. They were slowly drifting with the wind towards
the shore, when the little boy lost his hold. Dr. Webster succeeded in reaching his child, and then attempted to swim with it towards the land. In this attempt he failed, and both father and child were drowned. Dr. W.'s father and brother worked the boat towards the shore, and were finally rescued by some of our citizens, who were on the spot as soon after the alarm was given as possible. The body of the child was found floating near the shore; that of the father was recovered an hour or two after by dragging on the bottom, near the spot where he was seen to go down. Every effort was made which skill could devise to bring back the fleeting life, but it had gone to that bourne whence no traveller returns.
Dr. Webster was a yound man and had not been many years a resident of our town. He came
among us an entire stranger, with no friends to aid and bring him forward, nothing but himself to rely upon for success. His unobtrusive deportment was not calculated to win for him immediate favor, but favor when once won the more lasting. His retreating manner , his kind heart, his gentlemanly intercourse with all who approached him, had gradually but surely attracted around him a large circle of friends, who now bemourn his loss. We never heard him say a word in detraction of any one's character, and we never heard from any one a word in detraction of his own. He was a kind Father,
a faithful friend, a good citizen and an up- right man. We share deeply in the sympathy, which our citizens everywhere feel with the bereaved widow. May the consciousness that he
was appreciated and beloved prove as the oil of joy in her mourning, and the belief that he was fully prepared for his departure give her the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
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Date of birth:
Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian
by William T. Davis
Copyrighted 1906 [p. 310]
Find A Grave contributor Allison Ferris Pierce (47066078) has made a suggestion to you regarding your Find A Grave memorial for Ervin Webster.
Their suggestion:
Mother: Lucy (Sterling) Webster
(Jun 8, 1776, Woodstock, VT-Aug 26, 1859)
(source: "Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Weston, Vermont, Second Edition", orig. compiled by Raymond A. Taylor, p. 414)
He married on Sept. 2, 1851, Harriet W. Learned in Boston, Suffolk, MA.
Old Colony Memorial Newspaper
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Saturday, Aug. 30, 1856
Plymouth Public Library Microfilm
It is our melancholy duty to make a record of the sad accident which occurred yesterday on Billington Sea. Dr. Erving Webster, of this town, in company with his father, brother, and son, a boy of four years of age, had gone to the pond for the purpose of enjoying a sail. It was a windy day, and the place is notorious for the treacherous squalls which sweep across it. In coming round the island, when opposite Hathaway's point, a sudden flaw upset the small boat they were in, and left them clinging to its bottom, which they had all succeeded in reaching. They were slowly drifting with the wind towards
the shore, when the little boy lost his hold. Dr. Webster succeeded in reaching his child, and then attempted to swim with it towards the land. In this attempt he failed, and both father and child were drowned. Dr. W.'s father and brother worked the boat towards the shore, and were finally rescued by some of our citizens, who were on the spot as soon after the alarm was given as possible. The body of the child was found floating near the shore; that of the father was recovered an hour or two after by dragging on the bottom, near the spot where he was seen to go down. Every effort was made which skill could devise to bring back the fleeting life, but it had gone to that bourne whence no traveller returns.
Dr. Webster was a yound man and had not been many years a resident of our town. He came
among us an entire stranger, with no friends to aid and bring him forward, nothing but himself to rely upon for success. His unobtrusive deportment was not calculated to win for him immediate favor, but favor when once won the more lasting. His retreating manner , his kind heart, his gentlemanly intercourse with all who approached him, had gradually but surely attracted around him a large circle of friends, who now bemourn his loss. We never heard him say a word in detraction of any one's character, and we never heard from any one a word in detraction of his own. He was a kind Father,
a faithful friend, a good citizen and an up- right man. We share deeply in the sympathy, which our citizens everywhere feel with the bereaved widow. May the consciousness that he
was appreciated and beloved prove as the oil of joy in her mourning, and the belief that he was fully prepared for his departure give her the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
..................................................................
Date of birth:
Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian
by William T. Davis
Copyrighted 1906 [p. 310]
Find A Grave contributor Allison Ferris Pierce (47066078) has made a suggestion to you regarding your Find A Grave memorial for Ervin Webster.
Their suggestion:
Mother: Lucy (Sterling) Webster
(Jun 8, 1776, Woodstock, VT-Aug 26, 1859)
(source: "Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Weston, Vermont, Second Edition", orig. compiled by Raymond A. Taylor, p. 414)
Son of Jonathan Webster & Lucy (Sterling).
He married on Sept. 2, 1851, Harriet W. Learned in Boston, Suffolk, MA.
Old Colony Memorial Newspaper
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Saturday, Aug. 30, 1856
Plymouth Public Library Microfilm
It is our melancholy duty to make a record of the sad accident which occurred yesterday on Billington Sea. Dr. Erving Webster, of this town, in company with his father, brother, and son, a boy of four years of age, had gone to the pond for the purpose of enjoying a sail. It was a windy day, and the place is notorious for the treacherous squalls which sweep across it. In coming round the island, when opposite Hathaway's point, a sudden flaw upset the small boat they were in, and left them clinging to its bottom, which they had all succeeded in reaching. They were slowly drifting with the wind towards
the shore, when the little boy lost his hold. Dr. Webster succeeded in reaching his child, and then attempted to swim with it towards the land. In this attempt he failed, and both father and child were drowned. Dr. W.'s father and brother worked the boat towards the shore, and were finally rescued by some of our citizens, who were on the spot as soon after the alarm was given as possible. The body of the child was found floating near the shore; that of the father was recovered an hour or two after by dragging on the bottom, near the spot where he was seen to go down. Every effort was made which skill could devise to bring back the fleeting life, but it had gone to that bourne whence no traveller returns.
Dr. Webster was a yound man and had not been many years a resident of our town. He came
among us an entire stranger, with no friends to aid and bring him forward, nothing but himself to rely upon for success. His unobtrusive deportment was not calculated to win for him immediate favor, but favor when once won the more lasting. His retreating manner , his kind heart, his gentlemanly intercourse with all who approached him, had gradually but surely attracted around him a large circle of friends, who now bemourn his loss. We never heard him say a word in detraction of any one's character, and we never heard from any one a word in detraction of his own. He was a kind Father,
a faithful friend, a good citizen and an up- right man. We share deeply in the sympathy, which our citizens everywhere feel with the bereaved widow. May the consciousness that he
was appreciated and beloved prove as the oil of joy in her mourning, and the belief that he was fully prepared for his departure give her the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
..................................................................
Date of birth:
Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian
by William T. Davis
Copyrighted 1906 [p. 310]
Find A Grave contributor Allison Ferris Pierce (47066078) has made a suggestion to you regarding your Find A Grave memorial for Ervin Webster.
Their suggestion:
Mother: Lucy (Sterling) Webster
(Jun 8, 1776, Woodstock, VT-Aug 26, 1859)
(source: "Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Weston, Vermont, Second Edition", orig. compiled by Raymond A. Taylor, p. 414)
He married on Sept. 2, 1851, Harriet W. Learned in Boston, Suffolk, MA.
Old Colony Memorial Newspaper
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Saturday, Aug. 30, 1856
Plymouth Public Library Microfilm
It is our melancholy duty to make a record of the sad accident which occurred yesterday on Billington Sea. Dr. Erving Webster, of this town, in company with his father, brother, and son, a boy of four years of age, had gone to the pond for the purpose of enjoying a sail. It was a windy day, and the place is notorious for the treacherous squalls which sweep across it. In coming round the island, when opposite Hathaway's point, a sudden flaw upset the small boat they were in, and left them clinging to its bottom, which they had all succeeded in reaching. They were slowly drifting with the wind towards
the shore, when the little boy lost his hold. Dr. Webster succeeded in reaching his child, and then attempted to swim with it towards the land. In this attempt he failed, and both father and child were drowned. Dr. W.'s father and brother worked the boat towards the shore, and were finally rescued by some of our citizens, who were on the spot as soon after the alarm was given as possible. The body of the child was found floating near the shore; that of the father was recovered an hour or two after by dragging on the bottom, near the spot where he was seen to go down. Every effort was made which skill could devise to bring back the fleeting life, but it had gone to that bourne whence no traveller returns.
Dr. Webster was a yound man and had not been many years a resident of our town. He came
among us an entire stranger, with no friends to aid and bring him forward, nothing but himself to rely upon for success. His unobtrusive deportment was not calculated to win for him immediate favor, but favor when once won the more lasting. His retreating manner , his kind heart, his gentlemanly intercourse with all who approached him, had gradually but surely attracted around him a large circle of friends, who now bemourn his loss. We never heard him say a word in detraction of any one's character, and we never heard from any one a word in detraction of his own. He was a kind Father,
a faithful friend, a good citizen and an up- right man. We share deeply in the sympathy, which our citizens everywhere feel with the bereaved widow. May the consciousness that he
was appreciated and beloved prove as the oil of joy in her mourning, and the belief that he was fully prepared for his departure give her the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
..................................................................
Date of birth:
Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian
by William T. Davis
Copyrighted 1906 [p. 310]
Find A Grave contributor Allison Ferris Pierce (47066078) has made a suggestion to you regarding your Find A Grave memorial for Ervin Webster.
Their suggestion:
Mother: Lucy (Sterling) Webster
(Jun 8, 1776, Woodstock, VT-Aug 26, 1859)
(source: "Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Weston, Vermont, Second Edition", orig. compiled by Raymond A. Taylor, p. 414)
Inscription
ERVIN WEBSTER, M. D.
PASSED ONWARD
Aug. 28, 1856;
aged
28 years, 2 months &
28 days.
Epitaphs from Burial Hill
by Bradford Kingman
Published 1892
Epitaph #1792
Gravesite Details
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