Martha's application for a widow's pension, below, tells quite a story. Although Martha was born into a family of means, she ended her life in apparently impoverished circumstances. Her husband, Robert Henry Westbrook, who was much older than she, was a Confederate soldier wounded at Gettysburg whose wounds never healed.
He froze to death in Nov. 1889 back in Woodsdale, North Carolina, leaving her a widow in Texas.
Martha's application for a widow's pension, below, tells quite a story. Although Martha was born into a family of means, she ended her life in apparently impoverished circumstances. Her husband, Robert Henry Westbrook, who was much older than she, was a Confederate soldier wounded at Gettysburg whose wounds never healed.
He froze to death in Nov. 1889 back in Woodsdale, North Carolina, leaving her a widow in Texas.
Family Members
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Sarah Elizabeth Westbrook Shotwell
1866–1892
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John Westbrook
1867–1893
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Robert James Westbrook
1867–1949
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Elizabeth Ann Westbrook O'Briant
1868–1958
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Cornelia Westbrook
1870 – unknown
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Deborah Alice Westbrook Walker
1872–1904
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Nancy Beulah "Nannie" Westbrook Miller
1873–1902
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Farris Westbrook
1874–1893
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William Henry "Will" Westbrook
1875–1968
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Infant Westbrook
1879–1879
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John Daniel Westbrook
1879–1951
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Cornelius Stanley Westbrook Sr
1881–1961
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Martha Sue Westbrook Leggett
1883–1972
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Julia May "Auntie May" Westbrook Simpson
1885–1978
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