Galusha Lucius Webster

*English fisherman*

Galusha at the Yorkshire Dales in 1875.

**Galusha Lucius Webster** (January 24, 1790 - October 23, 1883) was an English fisherman who lived most of the 19th century. Galusha Webster was a member of the Webster family, the eldest son of Thomas Lucius Webster and Amber Mary Walpole, who was a member of the Walpole family. Galusha was married to Nicola Mary Potter, he fathered seven children including George, and had many grandchildren. Galusha was the paternal grandfather of Chawosauria's 3rd Prime Minister, Garfield Lucas Webster. Galusha worked for the Yorkshire coast fishery from before 1840 to his retirement in the 1850s or 1860s.

## Biography

Galusha Lucius Webster was born on January 24, 1790, to Thomas Lucius Webster, and Amber Mary Walpole. Galusha's paternal family are the Websters, and his maternal family are the Walpoles. Galusha was born in Sheffield, where he was well-educated, and his parents had children after he was born. Galusha was the elder brother of Spencer Keir Webster (born 1791), Henry Addington Webster (born 1793), Joycelyn Elisa Webster (born 1796), Catherine Harriet Webster (born 1797), Leonard Ezra Webster (born 1799), and Gordon Lucius Webster (b. 1801). Henry Addington Webster was named after Prime Minister Henry Addington, 1st Vincent Sidmouth, therefore he was the special child.

His first love was Jedida Durkheim but broke up with her after discovering she was Jewish. Galusha was an anti-Semite. Galusha's father, Thomas, used discipline that was, in today's world, extremely cruel, Galusha stopped his father from killing a piglet for pleasure, but Thomas burns his son's face, which caused great permanent injury, this resulted in Galusha running away to King's Lynn in 1807.

Upon living in King's Lynn, he was a fisherman working for the Yorkshire coast fisheries, but Galusha's father tried to convince him to move to the Southern United States, and become a slave plantation owner to enrich the family, but Galusha refused. By 1836, Galusha's younger brother, Gordon, did move to the U.S., and successfully became a slave owner, owning around 15,000+ slaves until he had to free them following the American Civil War, and then joined the segregationist (at the time) U.S. Democratic Party.

In 1823, Galusha married Nicola Potter in London, with both the Websters and the Potters turned out in droves to attend the wedding. In 1830, their first child, Galusha Lucius Webster II, was born, then Carlisle Leolin Webster born in 1831, Amber Mary Webster (his first daughter) born in 1832, Cathleen Anna Webster born in 1836, George Lucas Webster was born in 1838, John David Webster born in 1840, and Phineas Davy Webster was born in 1841.

Galusha was a miserable father, while still loved his children, he thought life as a father was miserable, and his marriage with Nicola was starting to become boring and sexless, making Galusha even more miserable. Galusha's relationship with George was the most contentious, Galusha was mostly bothered by George's anti-slavery politics due to his father being an Atlantic slave trader and his brother becoming an American slave owner. George wanted to marry a Catholic from the Papal States, Elisabeth Maria D'Alesandro, which further bothered Galusha because he wanted to retain the Websters' protestant roots. Galusha had an up-and-down relationship with his youngest son Phineas, a normal relationship with Galusha II and Carlisle, and a complicated one with his daughters, whose rebellions were encouraged by their mother.

In 1860, George and Elisabeth gave birth to Garfield Lucas Webster in Russia, in a time when Russophobia was becoming common in the United Kingdom, Galusha and Nicola were furious over George having a son born in Russia, and they never truly forgave him for this. Galusha and Nicola viewed Garfield Webster, their own grandson, unfavorably but their reasons were different, Galusha viewed Garfield unfavorably for his Catholic faith, the fact that Garfield was born in Russia, and Garfield developing strong liberal views during his youth years. Nicola's reasons for having unfavorable opinions of Garfield were unknown.

In 1882, Galusha becomes ill, and on October 23, 1883, Galusha passed away in bed at his home in Grosmont with his family rallying around him. In Galusha's will and testament, he gives his home to his oldest son Galusha II, and told him to care for Nicola. Nicola died in 1893, a decade after Galusha's death. Galusha and Nicola are possibly buried together somewhere in North Yorkshire.

After Galusha's passing and before Nicola's own passing, Nicola's mourning for Galusha was so great that in 1884, she had a "spirit photographer" to try to capture a photograph of her with Galusha's ghost at her side, for Nicola to keep for comfort out of deep grief that tormented her for the rest of her final years.

In 1940, a Nazi pilot who crash-landed during the Battle of Britain found Galusha and Nicola's old home in Grosmont, where he found the spirit photograph of Nicola with Galusha's spirit next to her, and when the Nazi looked out the window in case of incoming British soldiers the Nazi looked back at the photograph, Galusha's spirit was starring directly at the Nazi with white glowing eyes in an evil gaze, which scared the Nazi out of Galusha's old home. The Nazi veteran was Garibald Karl Bechtholdt, and he told the story in 1977 to a Chawosauria magazine. Bechtholdt literally died the next day under mysterious circumstances after telling his story. In 1946, the spirit photograph was retrieved by the British Army, the same incident what happened to Bechtholdt happened to the British soldier who found the photograph, Galusha's ghost looked directly at the British soldier in the evilest gaze ever seen, that same British soldier died of smallpox eventhough the other soldiers and civilians never had a smallpox incident.

In 1967, it was realized that the Galusha-Nicola spirit photograph was cursed because anyone who looked at it died unexpectedly. The photograph was destroyed in 1969, and the man who destroyed the photograph died the next day he burned the picture.

## See also

* Garfield Lucas Webster - paternal grandson.
* George Lucas Webster - son and Garfield Webster's father.
* Nicola Mary Potter - wife and second cousin.