Cynthia Williams

1827-1895

Born 1827, Ohio

Died 1895

Father: Rev. Jeremiah S. Williams

Mother: Nancy Montgomery

Children include Lucinda

Cynthia Ann Williams was born in Ohio on 23 June 1827, a daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah S. Williams and Nancy Montgomery, who had married in Gallia County in 1819. Her father was a preacher, and the family moved west into Illinois, to Mason County by the middle 1840s.

At eighteen she married Isaac Shuart Webster at Mason City, on 7 December 1845. The clerk wrote her name Scinthea. Their first son, Edwin, was born the next year. When Isaac went to the California gold fields she took the children back to her father's house in Jersey County, and the census of 1850 found them there with her young brother Jeremiah and her sister Cecilia.

Isaac came home in 1851, and the family moved on: to Washington Township in Ringgold County, Iowa, by 1857, and back to Newburg Township in Pike County, Illinois, by 1864. She had fifteen children between 1846 and 1870, two sets of them twins. Eleven were at home in 1870. Her daughter Lucinda Frances, born in Iowa in 1861, married Walton Geer at Pittsfield in 1879.

In old age she sat for a photographer at Plymouth, a few miles from Augusta, between two younger women in dark dresses with watch chains. She died at Augusta on 10 February 1895, aged sixty-seven. Isaac followed her in December 1897, and they lie under one stone in Augusta Cemetery.

Parents

Nancy Montgomery (b. 1800)

Rev. Jeremiah S. Williams (1799-1864)

Children

Lucinda Frances Webster (1861-1945)

Sources

Edward Chester Dunbar, died 2 October 1930 at West Point, Hancock, Illinois; born 27 April 1885 at "Spillwell, Ill."; buried 5 October 1930 at Augusta. Parents James Dunbar and Mary L. Printess. Wife Georgia Dunbar.

Find a Grave memorial 11399307, Cynthia Ann Williams Webster, Augusta Cemetery, photograph contributed by a descendant from the family's cabinet card.

Find a Grave memorial 11399266 and 11399307, Augusta Cemetery, Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois, photograph.

Marriage licence, Mason County, Illinois, 1845; federal censuses 1850 to 1880; marriage licence and death certificate of her daughter Lucinda Frances Webster; Find a Grave memorial 11399307, with the family's photograph and the stone.

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