Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Jane D. Haight Webster (1808-1877)
1860-1877
Maker not marked
USA: Indiana
Photograph on paper
overall: 10"h x 8"w
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library Collection
UN2000.0057

Oval shaped photograph of woman (Jane Haight Webster) with hair pulled back. She wears a dark cap with ribbon ties left hanging down below her shoulders; white lace collar, striped collar; written on back in pencil "I[?]el's great grandmother / Jane Webster."

Jane D. Haight was born on April 28, 1808, in Westchester County, New York, the daughter of John Haight and Phebe Williamson. Her parents were Quakers and she also joined the Society of Friends. Her family moved to the Rochester, New York, area in 1824 when she was 16. On September 7, 1825, she married Harry Croswell Webster in Pittsford, New York. The couple moved to Indiana in 1835, eventually settling in the South Bend area. Harry was a farmer. The couple had thirteen children. Around 1850, Jane Webster became a convert to spiritualism, eventually becoming a "writing medium." Jane D. Haight Webster died on March 26, 1877.