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Red Velvet Album p11C. Elsa Webster Rudolphy. Bancroft (Ban) Webster's mother. Note from Steve Stumpp: Otto Heppenheimer (my great grandfather) married Mathilda E Rudolphy. Mathilda had three brothers: Gustave O, Emil, and Wm Francis. Emil never married and died at age 36. Gustave married Ada Steiger and had 2 children: Elsa (b. 1886) and Emil. Emil died as a toddler. Elsa married Huber Miller in 1907 - and then it gets a little sticky. Some records would appear to indicate that she and Huber divorced before 1915. In December of 1916, Elsa is found arriving from Trinidad-Tobago with David Webster. Recall that Ban was born in Trinidad-Tobago in Sept of 1916. There is no further mention of Ban's father in any of the records I have found. It is possible that given the fact that he was a citizen of the British Empire, he went off to the trenches in Europe and never returned. In any event, Huber Miller remarried and was divorced a second time. Then, later in life, Huber and Elsa remarried. The NY Times obit for Huber Miller (1959) identifies him as the husband of Elsa Rudolphy and the step-father of Bancroft Webster. I believe that the Rudolphies and the Heppenheimers were close friends before the marriage of my great grandparents due to the fact that both Jacob Rudolphy and Frederick Heppenheimer were from the area near Darmstadt.