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Note: N186 Spent the final years with Charles in a retirement home south of Portland Oregon. They were seriously injured in a car accident and died as a result a few days apart from each other.
in 1955 living at 262 Roosevelt Way, San Francisco, CA - from passenger list
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1910 Census - Rachel (18), born in Japan, is living in North Lebanon, Lebanon Co., PA, with her grandparents, William V. Light (77) and Mary E. Light (68). Rachel’s father was born in Canada, her mother in Illinois. The year of immigration to the USA was 1893 for Rachel. William Light, born in PA, is a superintendant for a Water Co. ( the birth place for her mother (IL) is consistent with census records for Katherine B L Haight).
1911 - Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, December 18, 1911, Image 11
Miss Rachel Webb Haight. of Philadelphia, has been appointed continuation's assistant in the library at the Oregon Agricultural College. She will assume her duties January 1. Miss Haight is a graduate of - the Drexel Institute Li brary School of Philadelphia. She comes to Corvallis from the Iowa State Teachers' College, where she was assistant In the reference department.
1917 - Lebanon Daily News; Lebanon, PA; Tuesday Aug 14, 1917 ; pg 4
Many Lebanon friends will be interested to learn of the marriage, at
Newmarket, Canada, of Miss Rachel Webb Haight, a former resident of this city some years ago. She lived with her grandmother, Mrs. William V. Light, at 917 Maple street, and attended the city schools. She graduated later from the Lebanon High school. Afterward she removed to the State of Washington, and with her mother became an Instructor in one of the leading education Institutions of that state. A Canadian newspaper published the following account Of her marriage: A very quiet marriage took place at St. Paul's Church, Newmarket, at 8 a. m., Aug. 7th, 1917, when Rachel Webb Height, only child of the late Milton Haight and Mrs. Katharine B. L. Haight, of Corvallls, Oregon, became the wife of Charles Stockton Brewster of, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles E. Brewster, of Minneapolis.. Minnesota. The bride wore her traveling dress, was unattended and only immediate relatives were present, the bride being given In marriage by her uncle, James O. Haight, of Waterloo, Ontario. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served at the residence of her aunts, the Misses Haight, "Maplecroft," Niagara St. with whom the bride bad been spending a few weeks. The bride and groom left on the 9:45, train for the north to spend their honeymoon In a canoeing trip on some of the lakes and rivers of Northern Ontario, after which they will return to West Lafayette, Indiana, and be at home at 504 Walden Street after October 1st.
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