Alvin+H.

WEBSTER, ALVIN HYDE married **WOODWARD, LUCY ANN** daughter of John and Lucy Ann Woodward in Ogden, NY on March 14, 1833.

Alvin is the fifth child of Dr. John and Susan B. Webster. Alvin was born April 2, 1810 and died January 25, 1890. Lucy Ann was born July 10, 1815 and died October 28, 1839. "Alvin was one of the most substantial farmers of the Town."(4)

In 1802 a pioneer physician, Dr. John Webster, of Massachusetts bought land where now the Trimmer Road crosses the canal. When a small pox epidemic raged along the waterway he set up a hospital along the banks of the Ditch. One of his patients was a traveling evangelist, the Rev. Isaac Fister. On his recovery, the minister settled the doctor's bill by preaching for months without pay in Adams Basin Methodist Church. Later he became the regular pastor. The doctor's son, __//**Alvin,**//__ worked the farm after his father's death. A rabid Abolitionist, he maintained a station of the Underground Railway there. His son, the late Judson H., ran the farm for some years and during the winter, boarded the canal horses and mules, sometimes as many as 75 head. The place became known as Webster's Basin For nearly a decade after 1892, __//**Judson Webster**//__ was one of the operators of the Buffalo and Rochester Transit Company which ran steam freight packets on the Canal..(Taken from "The Towpath" by Arch Merrill, 1945, Part III)

They had the following child:


 * Lucy Ann** born August 1839 and died December 3, 1839. (1)

After Lucy’s death, Alvin married Cornelia Bailey,daughter of Simon and Prudence Bailey on September 21, 1840. They were married by Rev. I Fister. Cornelia was born in Lebanon, CT on January 23, 1817 and died September 26, 1900. (2) Simon Bailey settled in Ogden in 1835, his family coming from Hartford County, CN. Though he was a native of Windham County. He was the father of eight children.

They had the following children:
 * **Lucy A.** born in 1841. She married Dr. William S. Millener (4)
 * **Charles A.** born in 1844. He was living in Rochester in 1895. (4)
 * **Judson** born in 1849 and died on October 21, 1850. (3)
 * __//**Judson Hale.**//__ born July 19, 1852 in Ogden, NY and died August 14, 1945 in Albion, NY. He is buried in Garland Cemetery, Clarkson, NY. He married **Fannie** **Dell Gallo(u)p** on July 6, 1887 in The family home on Ridge Road, Clarkson, NY. Fannie was born on March 23, 1858 and died at home, 107 Adams St. Rochester in 1922.. She is also buried in Garland Cemetery, Clarkson, NY.
 * They had the following children as of the US Census 1920
 * Ruth Gale born December 3, 1889. She married Charles Willis Howard who was born June 15, 1896 and died May 1, 1966. They were married in Rochester, NY at 107 Adam St. on October 30, 1923 by Rev. O. P. Wildey, pastor of Kendall Mills Methodist Protestant Church. He is buried in Mt. Albion Cemetery, Albion, NY. Child of Ruth and Charles:
 * William Judson Howard born on March 7, 1927 at 2:45 am. in Albion, NY. He married in W. Lafayette, IN at the Methodist Church on June 1, 1952 to Margaret Carolyn O'Connor of Lafayette, IN. by the Rev. George Vance. Reception at Wenley Foundtion, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN.(5)
 * Gale Webster Howard born June 24, 1928 at 3:15 am in Albion, NY. She married Everett Dean Bergeman on June 25, 1955 at Methodist Church in Albion, NY by the Rev. Frank Quinn Beebe. A reception was held at the home of the bride. (5)
 * Zella Hale born in 1896 married Thomas D. Mcgaw of Toronto, Canada.

(1) Fairfield Cemetery, Spencerport, NY records and Lucy Ann’s birth, marriage and death from her Methodist Hymnal owned by Persis Reynolds Shook of Tacoma, Washington. (2) Fairfield Cemetery, Spencerport, NY records. (3) Ibid. (4) Landmarks of Monroe County, NY by William F. Peck (1895) Part III, p. 46 - 47 (5) Info. from G. H. Bergeman, 45 S. Cayuga Rd., Wmsville, NY 14221.