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Mrs. Helen W. Sewall, 65, past national president of the Daughters of the United States Army, today at her home in Beverly Hills, Va., after an illness of several months. She was the daughter of the late Maj. Gen. Erasmus Morgan Weaver, former Coast Artillery chief.
Mrs. Sewall was the wife of Benjamin B. Sewall, who is connected with the Transportation Corps of the War Department. He was at her bedside when she died, as were her daughter, Mrs. Bruce Rowland of Toronto, Canada, and her two granddaughters, Miss Persus Rowland, a student at Marjorie Webster School, and Miss Joyce Rowland, who accompanied her mother from Canada two weeks ago.
Reared on Army posts throughout the country, Mrs. Sewall was intimately acquainted with many of America's most famous military men, close friends of her father, who was one of the Army's leading ballistic experts.
Mrs. Sewall also is survived by a brother, Maj. Gen. Walter Reed Weaver, retired, former chief of the technical training command of the Army Air Forces, and a sister, Mrs. Duncan Stewart, both of New York. The Evening Star, 4 April 1944.⁸

Died Saturday Night at Buena, Pa.
Funeral from H. & T.C. Train
Wednesday at 12:40 P.M.

Bryan friends are deeply grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. E.W. Sewall on Saturday, September 6, at 11 p. m. at Buena, Pa.
Mrs. Sewall, with her son, Ben Calhoun, was enjoying a summer trip through the North and East, and when taken ill her daughter, Mrs. David Vinson of Houston, left immediately for her bedside, and both her children were with her when the end came at the hour stated. The funeral services will be held at the late home of Mrs. Sewall in Houston on Wednesday morning. The remains will reach Bryan on the 12:40 p.m. train Wednesday, and the funeral will be held directly from the train, and the services, begun in Houston that morning, will be concluded at the cemetery.
Mrs. Sewall was a resident of Bryan for many years, and large circle of sincere and loving friends in this city who deeply mourn her sad death.
She was a sister of Mrs. J.W. Howell, Mrs. M.H. James and Messrs. Robert S. and J.H. Webb of this city. To the grief-stricken relatives and her beloved children, Mrs. David Vinson and Mr. Ben Calhoun, a host of friends in this city extend loving sympathy.¹¹

Stuart Webb was a banker and business executive. He was a vice president of the Old Colony Trust Company and, during his career, served as president of Pathé Films, Gorton-Pew Fisheries of Gloucester, and the Eastern Manufacturing Company.