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Historic Webster is a newsletter of the Webster Historical Society, Inc., created at the Society’s founding in 1974. The publication helped to serve the Society's mission of collecting and preserving the history of Webster, North Carolina. Webster, established in 1851, was the original county seat for Jackson County.VOLUME VI NUMBER 1 WEBSTER, NORTH CAROLINA WINTER, 1978 Mrs. Wild was PTA leader H)' Joe P. Rhinehart Services for Minnie Norton Wild. 95. formerly of Webster and Bryson City, North Caro­lina, who died March I, 1979, were held at two o'clock, Sat­urday afternoon , March 3, in the Webster United Methodist Church. The Reverends Clark Poole and Dale Troutman of­ficiated. Burial was in the Web­ster Cemetery. Minnie Norton Wild was born in Big Ridge, a mountain village in Jackson County. Later her family moved to Cullowhee where she grew lip near what is now Western Carolina Univer­sity. Mrs. Wild was one of the first gradua tes of the old Cullo­whee Normal School, receiving her diploma in 1899. She recei­ved a certificate to teach in any North Carolina public school. Her first school was on Weya­hutta, an isolated mountain community, in a one teacher school. Her salary was $t5.00 per month and board. On December 16, 1903, Minnie Norton and Julius Jacob Wild were married in the Webster Methodist Church. A local pa­per reported on the event: "Married at theM. E. church in Webster, on Wednesday, Dec. t6. 1903, by the Rev. Mr. Marsh, Mr. Jacob J. Wilde to Miss Minnie Norton ,...

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