Frank Jay WEBB Family

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HUSBAND WIFE
Husband: Frank Jay WEBB
Birth Date: 26 Oct 1868
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 15 Mar 1931
Death Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Burial Place: Wildey Cemetery, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Father: Anderson Cone WEBB (1839-1887)
Mother: Laura Melvina RHODES (1843-1927)
Wife: Bertha WOODMAN
Birth Date: 6 Sep 1869 
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 5 Oct 1953
Death Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Burial Place: Wildey Cemetery, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Father: Edson WOODMAN (1847-1916)
Mother: Ella Grace HALL (1846-1892)
Marriage Date: 31 May 1893 Marriage Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan [

CHILDREN


Child No. 1: Ruth Mary WEBB
Sex: F
Birth Date: 4 Apr 1894 
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 17 Dec 1982
Death Place: Troy, Oakland, Michigan
Burial Place: 
Marriage Date: 
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: 
Child No. 2: Archie Clair WEBB
Sex: M
Birth Date: 9 Jul 1895
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 12 Jul 1965
Death Place: Fulton, Fulton Indiana
Burial Place: Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery 24
Marriage Date: 
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: 
Child No. 3: Edwin Francis WEBB
Sex: M
Birth Date: 16 Jul 1897
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 3 Jan 1944 
Death Place: Yardley, Pennsylvania
Burial Place: Wildey Cemetery, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1918
Marriage Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Spouse's Name: Alice Eva Virginia WIGGINTON (1896-1952)
Child No. 4: Ella Grace WEBB
Sex: F
Birth Date: 20 Jul 1899
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 11 Feb 1991
Death Place: Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
Burial Place: Wildey Cemetery, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Marriage Date: 
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: Never Married
Child No. 5: Dorothy Thornton WEBB
Sex: F
Birth Date: 5 Apr 1901
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 24 Jul 1987
Death Place: Mt. Pleasant, Isabella, Michigan
Burial Place: Albee Township Cemetery, Saginaw Co., Michigan
Marriage Date: 
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: 
Child No. 6: Robert Theodore WEBB
Sex: M
Birth Date: 26 Nov 1902
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 24 May 1980
Death Place: Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Burial Place: 
Marriage Date: 
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: Nellie E. (Warner) PECKHAM-[94] (1902-1955) 
Child No. 7: Fredrick Richard WEBB
Sex: M
Birth Date: 1907
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 1907
Death Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Burial Place: 
Marriage Date: 
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: 
Child No. 8: Harry John WEBB
Sex: M
Birth Date: 23 Sep 1909
Birth Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Death Date: 17 Aug 1977
Death Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Burial Place: 
Marriage Date: 
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: Astrid Albertine NELSON (1910-1977)

Sources
1. Webb Genealogy, Ella Webb, Dorothy Robinson, Nancy Robinson, Webb Genealogy (Ella G. Webb, Woodman Family Tree 12/18/1968;
Dorothy Robinson, Woodman-Webb Family History Dec 1972; Nancy Robinson, Webb Descendants, July 1995).
2. Photograph Frank Webb Family, Unknown, Photograph Frank Webb Family (Early 1900's, repro of original).
3. Letter and Photo to Edwin Webb, Jane Reynolds, Letter and Photo to Edwin Webb (June 1, 1955).
4. Michigan Birth Records, Van Buren County, State of Michigan, Michigan Birth Records, Van Buren County (Found at
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mivanbur/BirthsBookA.htm), Book A, Page 62.
5. Transcription of Will for Edson Woodman, Transcription of Will for Edson Woodman, with transcriber comments (Paw Paw, Van Buren,
Michigan, 12 Jan 1910, transcription by Nancy Robinson nerundia@verison.net, from email received 6 Aug 2003.)
6. AC Webb Bible, AC Webb Bible (National Publishing Co.'s Superfine Edition, New Devotional and Practical Pictorial FAMILY BIBLE,
National Publishing Co., Philadelphia, PA, Chicago, IL, St. Louis, MO, and Dayton, OH, Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year of
1875, by J.R. Jones in the Office of the Librarian at Washington; in possession of Nancy Robinson <nerundia@verizon.net>, color copies of
pages from Nancy Robinson.)
7. James & Anna Scott Webb Family, Wilford J. Webb, The James & Anna Scott Webb Family (Search by Wilford J. Webb - 1951 to
1954, incl. Compiled in July 1961 for Iowa cousins), Page 5. A son Anderson, was a farmer at Paw Paw, Mich. and had 4 children, all living at
that place in 1903. Text is direct reference to David Webb's children.
8. Cone Family, Compiled by William Whitney Cone, Brandsville, Missouri, Some Account of the Cone Family in America, principally of the
descendants of Daniel Cone, who settled in Haddam, Connecticut, in 1662 (1903, Topeka, Kansas, Printed by Crane & Company), page 247.
9. History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan, History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign &
Co., 1880), Page 508a, 515. P. 508a Illus. A. C. Webb Farm. Excerpt found at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mivanbur/Woodman.htm
10. Ibid, Page 516.
11. Marriage Record, Frank and Bertha Webb, Marriage Record, Frank J. Webb and Bertha Woodman (State of Michigan, County of Van
Buren, Record of Marriages, Book C, Page 104, Record 1549).
12. CENSUS (1870): Michigan, Van Buren County, 1870 U.S. Census, population schedule. Microfilm series M593, roll 706. (Washington,
D.C.: National Archives), Page 453. Computer graphic from microfilm of original records.
13. CENSUS (1880): Michigan, Van Buren County, 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule. Microfilm series T9, roll 608. (Washington,
D.C.: National Archives), Page 6, ED 217, Family 62. Computer graphic from microfilm of original records.
14. CENSUS (1900): Michigan, Van Buren County, 1900 U.S. Census, population schedule. Microfilm series T623, roll 745. (Washington,
D.C.: National Archives), Page 238, Sheet 3A, Family 52. Computer graphic from microfilm of original records.
15. CENSUS (1910): Michigan, Van Buren County, 1910 U.S. Census, population schedule. Microfilm series T624, roll 677. (Washington,
D.C.: National Archives), Page 71, ED # 167, Sheet 9A, Family 221. Computer graphic from microfilm of original records.
16. CENSUS (1920): Michigan, Van Buren County, 1920 U.S. Census, population schedule. Microfilm series T625, roll 799. (Washington,
D.C.: National Archives), Page 222. Computer graphic from microfilm of original records.
17. CENSUS (1930): Michigan, Van Buren County, 1930 U.S. Census, population schedule. Microfilm series T626, roll 1028.
(Washington, D.C.: National Archives), Page 11A, ED 24. Computer graphic from microfilm of original records.
18. The Genealogy and History of the Descendants of Mr. Edward Woodman, Mr. John A Woodman, The Genealogy and History of the
Descendants of Mr. Edward Woodman (5365 SW 83rd Place, Ocala, FL 34476).
19. Raven Genealogy, Alice Raven, Raven Genealogy (Internet Resource).
20. Michigan in the Civil War, Michigan in the Civil War: Military Collections (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Michigan
Historical Collections, Butler, Charles. The papers of this resident of Paw Paw, Mich., include typescripts and handwritten transcripts of letters
received from a number of men serving in the military, most of them from Paw Paw.), Letters. Edson Woodman. Four letters (1864-65) in
which he tells of a march from Chattanooga to Lookout Mountain, his promotion to orderly, and his wound and hospital life. He enlisted in
Company H, 13th Michigan Infantry in 1864, and was discharged after being wounded in action at Bentonville, N. C.
<http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/bhl/mhchome/cw/cwcoll-b.htm>. <http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/bhl/mhchome/cw/cwcoll-b.htm>
21. Will of Mary M. Hall, Will of Mary M. Hall (29 Dec 1892, Lyons, Clinton, Iowa).
22. Social Security Death Index, US Government, Social Security Death Index.
23. Fulton County Indiana Obituaries 1965, Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh, Fulton County Indiana Obituaries 1965 The News
Sentinel (TOMBAUGH HOUSE, 700 Pontiac Street, Rochester, Indiana 46975-1538, 2002. On the web at
<http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1965.htm>). Archie C. WEBB, 70, Fulton, died of a heart attack at his home at 8:30
p.m. Monday. Mr. Webb, a retired farmer, lived in Fulton county 37 years, coming here from Michigan.
Born July 9, 1885, in Paw Paw, Mich., he was the son of Frank and Bertha WOODMAN WEBB. He was married Jan. 8, 1921, in Decatur,
Mich., to Henrietta Van DENBERG.
Mr. Webb was a member of the Olive Branch E.U.B. church, Kewanna American Legion and World War I Barracks 479 at Rochester.
Surviving are the wife; two sons, Robert [WEBB], Honolulu, Hawaii, and Richard [WEBB], Mentone; a daughter, Mrs. Wayne BLACKMAN,
LaPaz; seven grandchildren; two brothers, Harry [WEBB], Paw Paw, Mich., and Robert [WEBB], Richmond, Mich.; four sisters, Mrs. Dorothy
ROBINSON, Saginaw, Mich.; Mrs. Ruth JAMES, Detroit; Mrs. Donna MORAN, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Miss Ella WEBB, New York City. A son,
Franklin [WEBB], preceded in death.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Ditmire-Davidson funeral home in Fulton with the Rev. Lloyd OVERMYER officiating. Burial
will be in the Rochestr I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
24. Ibid.
25. Birth Certificate, Edwin Webb, Certified Copy of Record of Birth, Edwin Webb (State of Michigan, County of Van Buren, Paw
Paw, Michigan, issued 24 Aug 1942, Record No. 4722, Local File No. D-96, record dated 10 Aug 1898, by Rex Martin, Clerk, Charles B.
Lawton, Deputy Clerk), Record No. 4722, Local File No. D-96, record dated 10 Aug 1898. Edwin Francis Webb, born 16 Jul 1897, male,
white, legitimate birth. Parents Frank & Bertha Webb, both born and reside in Paw Paw, Mich., occupation of father is farmer.
26. Obituary Edwin Webb, Unknown, Edwin Webb Obituary Notice (1944 Newspaper Clipping, Unknown).
27. History of the Descendants of John Hottel, Rev. W.D. Huddle and Lulu May Huddle, History of the Descendants of John Hottel
(Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1930.) Genealogy of Hottel, Oyer, Wigginton.
28. Marriage Certificate Edwin Webb & Alice Wigginton, Marriage License & Certificate, Edwin Webb & Alice Wigginton (Paw Paw, Van
Buren, Michigan, 1918. License issued 14 Jan 1918, certificate 17 Jan 1918.), Original License and Certificate, 1918. Edwin Francis Webb,
age 20, white, residence and birthplace Paw Paw, Mich., father Frank J. Webb; mother Bertha Woodman. Alice Eva Virginia Wigginton, age
21, white, residence Kalamazoo, Mich., birthplace Pittsburth, Pa., father Charles E. Wigginton, mother Alice Stockdale. License date 14 Jan
1918, certificate 17 Jan 1918. Witnessed by Elmer G. Wigginton and Ella G. Webb. Clergyman C. H. Heaton, Baptist Minister.
29. CENSUS (1920): Michigan, Van Buren County, 1920 U.S. Census, population schedule. Microfilm series T625, roll 799. (Washington,
D.C.: National Archives), Page 10B, ED 199.
30. CENSUS (1930): Michigan, Van Buren County, 1930 U.S. Census, population schedule. Microfilm series T626, roll 1028.
(Washington, D.C.: National Archives), Page 11A, ED 24, Family 271.
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