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Helen Adelle Webster (1838-1855)

Helen Adelle Webster

BIRTH

Adelle was born on October 5, 1838, in Dryden, Tompkins County, New York.

 

PARENTS

Constant Webster III was born in 1792 in Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York. In 1826 he married Ann Dusenberry, who was born in 1794 in Nassau, Rennselaer County, New York.  Constant died in 1842 and several years later Ann married Peter Putnam Jr.

 

SIBLINGS

The following are the children of Constant Webster and Ann Dusenberry.

  • Alfred Constant Webster (1828-1863) married Amanda Eunice Powers (1822-1865)
  • Oren Stimson Webster (1831-1891) married Harriet E. Van Mater (1841-?)
  • Aaron Bogart Webster (1833-1903) married Emily Bryan (1838-abt 1908)
  • Mary Dusenberry Webster (1840-1841)

 

HALF-SIBLINGS

The following are the children of Constant Webster and Fanny Spring.

  • James Henry Webster (1820-1897) married Olive Caroline Hawley (1827-1905)
  • John Melanction Webster (1822-1894) married Sarah Jane Smith (1823-1874)
  • Almira Webster (1823-1858) married William C. Smith (1821-abt 1891)
  • Ebenezer Webster (1824-1899) married Lucinda Butler Higgins (1826-1907)

 

STEP-SIBLINGS

The following are the children of step-father Peter Putnam Jr. and his first wife Prudence Johnson.

  • Orrin Putnam (1810-1894) married Sophia Huntington (1820-1905)
  • Warren Putnam (1811-1901) married Sarah Quance (1814-1865)
  • David Putnam
  • Philathetta Putnam (1816-1839)
  • Osgood Putnam (1819-?) married Malvina E. Bryan (1829-1878)
  • Seymour Putnam (1821-1854) married Mary Ann Avery (1824-1854)
  • Emeline O. Putnam (1824-1919) married Calvin Strong (1817-1895)

 

DEATH

Helen Adelle Webster died on October 17, 1855.

 

BURIAL

She was buried in Putnam Cemetery, Bethany, New York.

 

NOTES

She was known as Adel.

In 1850, when Adel was 11, she lived on the Putnam Settlement with her mother and Peter Putnam Jr. and two other of Ann's children, Orrin Webster 19 and Aaron Bogart Webster 17.

 

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