Webb - Laura Wimmer
Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana June 13, 1924
Mrs. Harry Webb was found dead in bed on Thursday monring at the home about a mile east of town. Mr. Webb had gotten up and when he called her found that life was extinct. She had died without a struggle. Funeral services will be at Mt. Moriah Church Saturday morning. Mrs. Webb was the daughter of Isaac and Phoebe Wimmer and was born near Bellmore 63 years ago. She is survived by the husband and one daughter, Mrs. Pearl Mater of Bellmore and 4 grandchildren: Daniel, Jessie, Phoebe and Clarice Mater. Mrs. Webb was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church and was highly esteemed. -- kbz
Source: Waveland Independent July 4, 1924
Time is winging us away, one by one, and though we are within hearing of the rustling of the wings that are bearing us, we are clinging to the objects along the road of time's flight, in love with life and its environments when suddenly it is cut off and we are dead to all. Life is a cycle, which, when run takes us out as it brought us in; the children of the inevitable. Another's hand has formed us, another's will has been done, and we are no more. Amid all that has come and gone in the ages dead, are still vivid the signs of life and equally strong are the evidences that life is given and life is taken - how short it is. Life has its dwelling in man for an appointed time then leaves him as he was before. Man is like a flower; today he is, tomorrow he is not. As a shadow flees he continues not. As unexpected as the burning lightning's flash across the cloudless sky, so was the course of a good woman finished in this community in the early morning of June 12, 1924; who leaves behind her a splendid and enviable record, to which none can add and from which none can take. It is as it should be. She did what she could to make her relations with others fruitful and good. As a woman she stood above reproach, and built a citizenship upon the fundamental principles of honesty, industry, integrity and frugility. As a wife she walked to the nuptial altar with the man she loved and ever after through all the shiftings scenes of life she kept the solemn pact until her sun set forever. In the realm of motherhood she loved and watched and gave the best of her powers to the proper rearing of those she gave to the world and lived to see them good and upright which filled her heart with a happy and just pride for she loved her girls only as a mother can. Not only was she of goodly repute in the world, where by nature we owe service, one to another, but in the spiritual world she was a fruitful tree. A Christian woman, believed in the soverign grace of God through Christ in the salvation of sinners, she trusted Him for His mercy and obeyed His Law. With clear visitaton she surveyed the beautiful realm of spiritual things and lived the life of the Christian. Friends and brethren found her home, their home in the warm, welcome with which they wer received. Such was Laura M. Wimmer Webb daughter of Isaac and Phoebe Wimmer, born on 8 April 1860, near Bellmore. She was married on the 6 of Sept 1877 to John H. Webb. Maude, Edith and Mary the three daughters came to this union. Maude and Edith preceded her in death. Left behind are the husband, one daughter, Mary Mater, 4 grandchildren, Dan, Phoebe and Claris, children of Maude Mater, Jesse child of Edith Mater; four sisters and two brothers survive, two sisters and one brother are deceased. 64 years, two months and 4 days measured the time of her earthy pilgrimage -- CGA