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P00058 – Municipal Council in 1912. D. C. Webber was municipal clerk and is in this picture but we don’t know which one he is.
P04303 – The three youngest in this picture are Webber boys.
Webber
The Webber family moved to Canada from Maine in 1775, settling in Nova Scotia.
Anthony Vaughn Webber was born c.1800, and married his widow cousin, Elizabeth Vaughn Crandall (nee Lordly) in Nova Scotia.
Their son David C. Webber was born on May 24th of 1846 in Nova Scotia.
In 1875, David Webber decided to try his fortune at prospecting and went to California. After spending 3 years in the mining camps, he returned to Nova Scotia. He continued working in the lumber industry until 1881, when he moved to B.C. and came to Maple Ridge.
David married Eileen Shenkle in 1873, but she died 18 months later. David then married Ellen Rumery Carter on April 13th, 1880. Ellen played the piano very well and had a beautiful singing voice. One of their sons, Tom, also had a very beautiful tenor voice and played the mouth organ very well. Their youngest daughter, Dolly, was a dancer in her early 20s and danced professionally in San Francisco in the early 1920s. David and Ellen had 12 children.
David died in Haney on December 11th, 1920, and Ellen died on May 10th, 1938.
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