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Annie Webster (Moffett)

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Birthplace: Saint Louis, MO, United States
Death: 1950 (97-98)
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Daughter of William Anderson Moffett and Permelia Ann Moffett
Wife of Charles Luther Webster
Mother of Jean Webster; William Luther Webster and Samuel Charles Webster
Sister of Samuel Erasmus Moffett

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About Annie Webster

Annie Moffett was the daughter William A. Moffett and Pamela Clemens whose brother Samuel Langhorne Clemens was the famous author known by his pen name Mark Twain. During Samuel's years as a Mississippi River apprentice and pilot (1857–61), he lodged at the Moffett house in St. Louis, where young Annie was his special favorite. Prospecting in Nevada in 1862, he named a silver mine claim after her (the “Annie Moffett” ledge); having turned to journalism, he quoted from her letters to him in the 1866 sketch “An Open Letter to the American People.” After the death of William Moffett in 1865 the family lived with Pamela and Samuel's mother, Jane Lampton Clemens, in St. Louis, and later in Fredonia, New York. In 1875 Annie married Charles L. Webster, soon to be the manager of Samuel’s publishing company. Their children were Alice, William, and Samuel. Annie retailed her memories of him in chapter five of Mark Twain, Businessman by her son Samuel Charles Webster (1946).

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Annie Webster's Timeline

1852
July 1, 1852
Saint Louis, MO, United States
1876
June 24, 1876

Alice Jane WEBSTER daut of Chas. L. & Annie M. WEBSTER at Fredonia Chaut. Co. N.Y. July 24th 1876 at 6 p. m.

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1878
October 15, 1878
Fredonia, NY, United States

William Luther WEBSTER son of Chas. L. & Annie M. WEBSTER at Fredonia Chaut. Co. N.Y. Oct. 15th 1878 at 12 M.
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1884
July 8, 1884
New York, NY, United States

Samuel Charles WEBSTER, son of Chas. L. & Annie M. WEBSTER at 214 W. 125 St. New York City - Tuesday - July 8th 1884 at 3:25 a.m.

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1950
1950
Age 97