Person:Lavina Bradway (1)

Lavina Bradway, daughter of Abel Bradway and Naomi Seamans, was born on 1 April 1799 in Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut. She married Richard Webber, son of Joseph Webber and Polly Carpenter on 27 March 1821 in Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut. He was a methodist preacher in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

In 1838 they took their family with them from Palmer, Hampden, Massachusetts to Medina County, Ohio.

According to Lucy Washburn's book, Richard was a "circuit preacher" in the family's new home in Ohio. This meant he was the only preacher within a large area and would travel between towns as his services were required. Richard was well known as a preacher all over Northern Ohio, and was known as "Elder Webber."

Tragedy came to the family in March of 1837 when a daughter was born to live for only thirteen days. It came again later in 1854 when one of the youngest children, Joseph, who was twenty years old at the time, came down with typhoid fever and died. Elder Webber gave the sermon at his son's funeral, just as he had done at many other funerals. That same fall Elder Webber also contracted typhoid fever and passed away on 17 October 1854. He was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Brunswick, Medina, Ohio.

Ten years later, the youngest son, John Barton Webber, died from illness contracted during his service in the Civil War. He was 25 at the time. The widowed Lavina was taken care of by her surviving children and lived to the good age of 78. She died on 8 October 1877 in Hinckley, Medina, Ohio and was buried next to her husband in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1
   accessed; 4 February 2011; 7.

   Lucy Adelia Washburn, The Richard Webber Family: a genealogy from the first settlement in America (Medina, Ohio: The A. I. Root Co., 1909), 7; pdf, The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/richardwebberfam00wash : accessed 4 February 2011.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find A Grave.

   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GSvcid=95924&GRid=45303382& accessed: 9 April 2011.

3.   1840 U.S. Census.

   1840 U S Census, Medina County, Ohio, population schedule, Hinckley, p. 207, , Richard Webber.

4.   1850 U.S. Census.

   1850 U S Census, Medina County, Ohio, population schedule, Hinckley, p. 347A, family 509, Lovina Webber; digital
   images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 February 2011); citing NARA microfilm M432_709.

5.   1860 U S Census.

   1860 U S Census, Medina County, Ohio, population schedule, Hinckley, p. 261 (stamped), dwelling 482, Lavina Webber; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 February 2011); citing NARA microfilm M653_1007.

6.   1870 U S Census.

   1870 U S Census, Medina County, Ohio, population schedule, Hinckley, p. 7 (penned), dwelling 59, Lovina Webber; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 February 2011); citing NARA microfilm M593_1241.