Isabel Mater (maiden name: Webster) was born on September 18, 1858, in Bridgeton, Parke County, Indiana, to Walter Samuel and Belvina Mitchell Webster. She married widower Jacob D. Mater on November 19, 1876, in Bridgeton. Together they had a son, Bruce, who died when he was only ten months old. As her husband travelled around the region offering medical lectures, Mater accompanied him. Following her husband’s death from myocarditis on April 14, 1914, in Bridgeton, she began receiving a pension. Mater died at her home in Bridgeton on September 2, 1917. She is buried in Bridgeton alongside her husband.
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Pension records for Jacob D. Mater, RG 15, National Archives and Records Administration; United States Federal Census, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930; Indiana Marriages, 1810-2001, accessed through Ancestry.com; Parke County INGenWeb, http://www.ingenweb.org/inparke/; Hiram Williams Beckwith, History of Vigo and Parke Counties, Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley (1880); "Isabel Webster Mater," FindAGrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43087122/isabel-mater).
