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Mrs. Helen W. Sewall, 65, past national president of the Daughters of the United States Army, today at her home in Beverly Hills, Va., after an illness of several months. She was the daughter of the late Maj. Gen. Erasmus Morgan Weaver, former Coast Artillery chief.
Mrs. Sewall was the wife of Benjamin B. Sewall, who is connected with the Transportation Corps of the War Department. He was at her bedside when she died, as were her daughter, Mrs. Bruce Rowland of Toronto, Canada, and her two granddaughters, Miss Persus Rowland, a student at Marjorie Webster School, and Miss Joyce Rowland, who accompanied her mother from Canada two weeks ago.
Reared on Army posts throughout the country, Mrs. Sewall was intimately acquainted with many of America's most famous military men, close friends of her father, who was one of the Army's leading ballistic experts.
Mrs. Sewall also is survived by a brother, Maj. Gen. Walter Reed Weaver, retired, former chief of the technical training command of the Army Air Forces, and a sister, Mrs. Duncan Stewart, both of New York. The Evening Star, 4 April 1944.⁸

Died Saturday Night at Buena, Pa.
Funeral from H. & T.C. Train
Wednesday at 12:40 P.M.

Bryan friends are deeply grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. E.W. Sewall on Saturday, September 6, at 11 p. m. at Buena, Pa.
Mrs. Sewall, with her son, Ben Calhoun, was enjoying a summer trip through the North and East, and when taken ill her daughter, Mrs. David Vinson of Houston, left immediately for her bedside, and both her children were with her when the end came at the hour stated. The funeral services will be held at the late home of Mrs. Sewall in Houston on Wednesday morning. The remains will reach Bryan on the 12:40 p.m. train Wednesday, and the funeral will be held directly from the train, and the services, begun in Houston that morning, will be concluded at the cemetery.
Mrs. Sewall was a resident of Bryan for many years, and large circle of sincere and loving friends in this city who deeply mourn her sad death.
She was a sister of Mrs. J.W. Howell, Mrs. M.H. James and Messrs. Robert S. and J.H. Webb of this city. To the grief-stricken relatives and her beloved children, Mrs. David Vinson and Mr. Ben Calhoun, a host of friends in this city extend loving sympathy.¹¹

Stuart Webb was a banker and business executive. He was a vice president of the Old Colony Trust Company and, during his career, served as president of Pathé Films, Gorton-Pew Fisheries of Gloucester, and the Eastern Manufacturing Company.

9 September 1783 admitted to Westminster School, from which he proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, in October, 1789. He graduated B.A. on the 31st May, 1791, M.A. on the 6th April, 1796, B.D. on the 16th May, 1807, and D.D. on the 14th May, 1827. At Christ Church he became tutor and censor, and was presented to the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford, 25th January, 1803. On 28th June, 1810, he was presented to the church of Torrington and the chapel of St. Giles in the county of Devon at a stipend of £34 a year, but he was to pay the curate of St. Giles. He was appointed chaplain to Lord Robert Fitzgerald's Embassy at Copenhagen 1795, prebendary of York 1812, and vicar of Sutton-in-the-Forest 1812, chaplain House of Commons 1812, rector of Kirkham, Lancashire, 1813, sub-dean Westminster, prebendary 1816, rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster, 1827-35, dean of Ripon from 1828 until his death.

Will of the late Dean of Ripon.
This is the last will and testament of me, the very Reverend James Webber D D., of Dean's-yard, Westminster, Dean of Ripon, and one of the Prebendaries of the Collegiate Church of St, Peter, Westminster. I give, devise, and bequeath to my wife, Caroline Frances Webber, all my real and personal estate, of whatsoever kind or nature, and wheresoever situate, and all that may be due and coming to me as master of the hospitals of St. Mary Magdalen, and St. John the Evangelist, Ripon; to hold the same unto my said wife, her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns absolutely, and appoint her sole executrix of this, my will.- Witness my hand this eighteenth day of June, 1847." This venerable dignitary died on the 3d of September last, and besides his estates and property in the province of York, was possessed of personal and funded property within the province of Canterbury, amounting to nearly £4,000. He had held the vicarage of Kirkham, in Lancashire, from the year 1813, the annual value is returned as exceeding £900 with the patronage of seven benefices. He was appointed a Prebendary of Westminster in 1816, and was occupying a prebendary house at Dean's-yard, to which three of the Prebendaries are entitled; from this appointment there is a participation in a large revenue of about £20,000 annually divided among the clergy comprising the Chapter, consisting of the Dean and twelve Prebendaries. In 1828 he was raised to the dignity of Dean of Ripon: attached to this office there is an income of between £300 and £400.^7,3,8