My Genealogy Hound

CYRUS A. WEBSTER, a thriving farmer of Blaine township, Kearney county, Nebr., was born in 1848 in Fulton county, Ill., and is a son of Elisha and Lovine (Pigsley) Webster. Elisha Webster is a native of Chautauqua county, N. Y., and was born in 1819, but in 1835 moved to Fulton county, Ill., and thence came to Nebraska in 1880. He is a farmer by vocation, in politics is a republican, and in religion a Methodist. Mrs. Webster is a daughter of Welcome and Thiza (Clark) Pigsley, and was born in the State of New York in 1830; from New York she went to Ohio, thence to Michigan, and thence to Fulton county, Ill., where her marriage took place in 1847. She has had three children, as follows — Cyrus A., Asel M. (who died in 1878, at the age of twenty-seven years) and Mrs. Louie Love. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Martin Webster, a native of Vermont, who married Susan Rogers, a native of New York.

Cyrus A. Webster was reared on a farm and received a good common-school education, and at the age of twenty years began his business life on his own account. In 1879 he came to Nebraska and for a year resided in Polk county, then for two years in Buffalo county, and then came to Kearney county, settling on section 24, township 7, range 16. Here he has a farm of six hundred and forty acres, of which four hundred acres are under cultivation. He keeps from fifty to one hundred and twenty-five head of cattle and about the same number of hogs and from twelve to fifteen horses.

Mr. Webster is a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church and has of late held large and successful revival meetings. Politically, he is a stanch republican.

In January, 1869, Mr. Webster married Miss Mary I. Barnes, who was born in 1851, in Ohio, from which state she was taken to Illinois by her parents. To this felicitous union have been born ten children, viz. — Otis Melvin, Stella, Etta Belle, Ada L. (who died December 10, 1887) Louis, Thomas (who died in 1882), Adolphus (who died also in 1882), Clyde, Laura and Fay. The parents and surviving children hold a very high place in the esteem of their neighbors and their walk through life is such as to merit this esteem.