Biography of Hazzard Webster, pages 795 / 796.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Hazzard Webster, deceased, was a native of Rhode Island, born Jan. 31, 1805, 
and when a small boy accompanied his parents to Trumbull County, Ohio, where 
he live till eighteen years old, when he started for the West and traveled 
over thirteen States and Territories, spending three years in the Galen, 
Ill., lead mines.  He was married March 18, 1831, to Laura Ackley, and to 
them were born seven children, but three of whom are living---Betsey, Mary 
and Lucretia.  Sarah, Hannah, Asel and John are deceased.  The latter was 
killed at the battle of Stone River when fighting in defense of his country.  
Mr. Webster came to De Kalb County in the fall of 1836 with a colony of 
fifteen wagons.  His first house in the county was made of poles covered 
with bark, with a puncheon floor, 14x16 feet in size.  The first night in 
the county fifteen persons staid in his house.  They were obliged to undergo 
many hardships, as life in a new country was not all sunshine; neither was 
it all shade, and they had many hours of pleasure.  Mr. Webster was a 
doctress, and was often called from home and obliged to cross the St. 
Joseph River when her horse nearly swam.  Twice she has been carried 
across on the a man’s back.  In 1849 Mr. Webster crossed the plains  to 
California, stopping two days in Salt Lake City.  He died in California 
Feb. 6, 1850.  Mrs. Webster is living with her daughter, Mrs. N.T. Fuller, 
and is in the seventy-sixth year of her age.

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