Webber - Laura Kerr
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly, April 1, 1904
At 9 o'clock Sunday morning at her home 113 Simpson street, Mrs. Laura Eliza Webber, the wife of Dr. William Weber, died of pneumonia, with which she had been suffering for some time. The deceased was born in this county on July 5, 1851, but has lived in Greencastle for some time until recently. She leaves beside her husband, two grown children, Mrs. Charles Long and George Anderson.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home. Interment will be at ____ - thanks to Kim H
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal, April 12, 1904
Dr. Weber Writes of the Life and Virtues of His Late Wife.
Laura E. Webber was born at her father's farm at Cherry Grove, Montgomery county, Indiana, on July 5, 1851, and died at her home, 113 Simpson street, Crawfordsville, on March 27, 1904, at 9:15 a.m., of pleural pneumonia, after an illness of only seven days, aged fifty-three years, eight months, and twenty-two days. She leaves behind to mourn her loss a husband, Dr. W. C. Webber, a son, George T. Anderson, a daughter, Nettie M. Long, a brother, Frank M. Kerr and a grandchild, Jeanette A. Long. The departed was twice married her first marriage was while yet quite young to Austin B. Anderson, by whom she had two children who survive her. Her first husband lived only five years. She remained a widow twenty-two years, then married Dr. W. C. Webber, a widower, with whom she became acquainted some eight years previously by introduction. This husband, after a very happy life with her of nearly ten years survives her and sincerely mourns her loss. She was a woman of rare attainments, loved by everyone that knew her. She was a good manager and housekeeper. She with her husband's assistance managed her farm to good advantage and with success. She was a great friend of children and well loved by them. She was better known all over the county as Aunt Laura. There are many young men and women who are now married and have children of their own, who on meeting her would always address her as Aunt Laura. She was a good and true mother to her children, ever ready at all hours day or night to respond to their call when sick or in distress. She had nothing but a kind word for any and all of her neighbors, and was always eager and ready to nurse the sick succor the distressed and give to those in need, though not a robust and strong woman, yet always cheerful and of a very happy disposition, always ready to enter into and take part in the innocent games and amusements of the young people of the neighborhood whom all came to her for advice and council when in trouble, which she knew well how to give and was ever ready to listen to. She did not affiliate with any church, creed, or sect, but attended church where ever and whenever the opportunity offered, and was a good true christian woman in every sense the word implies. Her husband, Dr. Webber, being a member of that ancient craft of Free Masons, she with him joined and became a member of Oriental Chapter, No. 244, O.E.S., of Linden, and was proud of being one of them. We all miss her, but humbly bow to the will of the great ruler and guide of us all. By her husband. Dr. Webber -- thanks to Kim H