If you have an interest in WEBSTER research you are invited to join a new list by sending a message to WEBSTER-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe and nothing else. The information on JONATHAN WEBSTER below (copy and paste) from my FTM represents my "brick wall". Much help is needed. Jonathan married Mary Ann Kinkade 18 Nov 1843 in Clay Co Il 'with father's consent'. Vol 1 Pg 107 Robert Fields JP In Hancock Co Il 11 Nov 1859 he married her sister Nancy Jane. Vol 3 pg 252 John Stinson MG 1850 Adams Co. Il, Keene Twp Census; Jonathan Webster 30 Ky # 84 Mary A 23 " ............. George W's dau Noah 6 Il Moses 1 " George W Kincaid 50 Ky # 85 James M 20 " John W 12 Il Mary J 3 " Isaac Porterfield 12 " Lorenzo D Kincaid 26 Ky ...... # 86 George W's son Harriett 24 Ia Sarah J 5 Il George W 3 " Nancy J 29 Ky ...... " " dau 1860 Adams Co Il Keene Twp Census; Johnathan Webster 37 Ky #914 Nancy J " 36 " Noah " 16 Il Moses " 11 " Franklin " 9 " Caroline " 7 " George H " 5 " William " 2 1870 Hancock Co Il, St Albans Twp Census Webster, George is in the household of James and Sarah Short #163, He is 14 and from Il and working as a farm laborer. # 165 Webster, Nancy J 50 Ky John J 9 Il # 166 Webster, Cynthia A 21 Ind Rolla M 4 Il Mary C 2 " In 1870 William is working for his uncle, J W Carr The Webster School, District 228, was built about 1854 on land belonging to Michael Newell. The school was named for Johnathan Webster,a man with a large family who lived in the neighborhood. The school served the community as a school and a church until 1884. The first building, a log structure, burned in 1876, and was replaced by a frame building the same year. William Howes and John Baker had the contract to build it. On 20 June 1949, the school board met and voted to close the school and made that district a part of the Bowen Community District. !The Webster family was living in the Webster community before 1850. It is thought the community was named for him as he was influential is getting the Webster school built--- from Pioneers of the Prairie, Wilma Brunenn If this is true, then how wonderful, for he could not read or write. The Webster School was located about 10 miles East of Nauvoo and about 5 miles North of Ferris which is about 5 miles North of Carthage. The community of Webster was about 8 miles due East of Ferris. The Webster Cemetery is just South of St Albans Who was the Noah Webster who purchased land next to Jonathan in Hancock Co on the same day, 12 Feb 1855? Father? Brother? It was not 'our' Noah since in 1855 he was only 12 years old. In Hancock County, a deed in book 80 page 48, gives the residence of Jonathan and Nancy J on 26 Jul 1865 as Jersey County Il. Since he is not with her in the 1870 Hancock County census perhaps he died in Jersey County or in the Civil War. Johnathan may have been from Frankfort, Franklin County Ky. In one record his name was John