Webster, Bishop: Nova Scotia to South Dedham

Sarah A. Godfrey Webster (1801-1889)

Sarah A. Godfrey was born on February 20, 1801 in Nova Scotia, Canada. She was the daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth Godfrey.

In June of 1821, Sarah Godfrey married Daniel Webster who was also born in Nova Scotia. The couple had eleven children: Elisha, Edwin, Daniel, Mary, Matthew, John, Lawson, Godfrey, Mary Elizabeth, Henry and Clara, all born in Canada.

Typical ship list of passengers Halifax to Boston. At some point, Sarah Webster made her way to South Dedham, later Norwood, as part of a continuing migration from Nova Scotia to Norwood. A nephew, Charles A. Bishop, lived with her. Charles Adrian Bishop had been born in Nova Scotia in 1859. Bishop was a tannery worker. Bishop later married and moved to Hill Street and later boarded with a family on Washington Street.

Sarah A. Webster died on July 19, 1889 in Norwood. The cause of death was listed as Old Age.

She was interred in Old Parish Cemetery in lot 13. The gravestone also bears the name of Bishop. Her nephew Charles A. Bishop, who died in 1929, and his son, Frank Bishop, who passed away in 1890, are also buried here.

The Webster gravestone in Old Parish Cemetery before and after volunteers cleaned and straightened.