Memorial Record of Alabama: John F. Vardaman sketch (Maggie M., wife of T. J. Webb)
1893 · Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. 1 (Madison, Wisconsin: Brant & Fuller, 1893), Personal Memoirs, Coosa County
Named here: Margaret Mae Vardaman, Thomas J Webb, John F. Vardaman (born 19 May 1835, Meriwether County, Georgia), Julia Flynn Vardaman, E. L. Vardaman (died 1878) and Lucinda K. Mauk (died 1862), Marshall E., John W. A. and Ada B. Vardaman
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Transcription
From the archive.org text layer, pp. 743–744. The sketch opens "John P. Vardaman, planter, of Good Water, Ala."; the index ("Vardaman, J. F 743") and the body ("John F. Vardaman was born …") give the initial F.
John P. Vardaman, planter, of Good Water, Ala., is a son of E. L. and Lucinda K. (Mauk) Vardaman. […] E. L. Vardaman was born in Newberry district, South Carolina, and was married in Putnam county, Ga., to Lucinda K. Mauk, on the 6th day of January, 1824, settling three years thereafter in Meriwether county, Ga., where he lived until the winter of 1848–9. He then came to Alabama. […] when he moved to Alabama located first in the northwestern part of Tallapoosa county, and afterward moved to Coosa county, and still later to Clay county, where he died in July, 1878. […] John F. Vardaman was born May 19, 1835, in Meriwether county, Ga. He had poor opportunities for securing an education in his minority, but at twenty, and afterward, he attended school a portion of each year, for four years. He began to teach school in 1859, and in 1861 he left the school room to enter the army, enlisting first as a twelve months' man, and afterward joined company C, in the cavalry battalion of Hilliard's Alabama legion. […] Returning home from war he became engaged in farming and teaching, and has been thus engaged ever since. He was married December 21, 1865, to Miss Julia Flynn, of Coosa county, Ala., by whom he has four children, viz.: Marshall E., married and living near his parents; John W. A., at home; Maggie M., wife of T. J. Webb, of Kellyton, Ala.; and Ada B., single and at home. Mr. Vardaman was elected county superintendent of education for Coosa county in 1890. He had previously served nine years as magistrate of his beat. […] He is a prosperous farmer living two and a half miles east of Good Water.
Citation: "John F. Vardaman," in Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the State's Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together with the Personal Memoirs of Many of Its People, vol. 1 (Madison, Wis.: Brant & Fuller, 1893), 743–744; Internet Archive item memorialrecordof00tayl, scans n740–n741, https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n741/mode/1up?q=Webb.
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| Person | Fact | Document says | Tree says | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Mae Vardaman | Parents | Daughter of John F. Vardaman (born 19 May 1835, Meriwether County, Ga.) and Julia Flynn of Coosa County, married 21 December 1865 | No parents | new |
| Margaret Mae Vardaman | Name | "Maggie M." | Margaret Mae | agrees |
| Margaret Mae Vardaman | Siblings | Marshall E., John W. A., Ada B. | — | new |
| Margaret Mae Vardaman | Family home | Her father's farm two and a half miles east of Goodwater | Born 1871, Goodwater; Goodwater in 1880 | agrees |
| Margaret Mae Vardaman | Marriage, residence 1893 | "wife of T. J. Webb, of Kellyton, Ala." | Wife of Thomas J Webb; no marriage date | agrees; new (married by 1893, living at Kellyton) |
| Thomas J Webb | Wife, residence 1893 | T. J. Webb of Kellyton, husband of Maggie M. Vardaman | Husband of Margaret Mae Vardaman; Soccopatoy (Kellyton) in 1880 | agrees |
| Margaret Mae Vardaman | Father's offices | County superintendent of education for Coosa, elected 1890; nine years a magistrate | — | context |