Wade & Webb Family History

Mary S. Burleson1777–1827

North Carolina · Shady Dale

Known to her family as Polly, Mary Burleson was born in North Carolina in 1777 and married twice: first, according to the tree, Richard Hackett, and then, as the widowed Polly Hackett, Charles Webb, in Georgia on 25 December 1800. She raised a large family in Georgia and died in Jasper County in July 1827.

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Places
  4. Timeline
  5. Open questions
  6. Searches made
  7. Notes

Birth

  1. 18 May 1777 North Carolina 1

Marriages

  1. 25 Dec 1800 Charles C Webb, at Warren, Georgia 3, 4
  2. 1792 Richard Hackett, at South Carolina

Death and burial

  1. 1827 Burial: Shady Dale, Jasper, Georgia
  2. 23 Jul 1827 Death: Jasper, Georgia 8

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Marriage 1, 25 Dec 1800
Charles C Webb 1767–1849
Children
Martha Sutton Webb 1811–1885
Jonathan Daniel Webb 1814–1829
Edmund Jefferson Webb 1808–1878
Charles Hackett Webb 1802–1876
Aaron Burleson Webb 1806–1873
Marriage 2, 1792
Richard Hackett 1772–1800
Children
Salita Hackett 1795–?

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Mary S. Burleson
  2. Charles Hackett Webb, son
  3. Charles David Webb, son
  4. James Pleasant Webb, son
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

3rd great-grandmother of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Mary Burleson, known as Polly, was born in North Carolina on 18 May 1777, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives the date and place without an attached source; the tree records her as Mary S. Burleson, but no record in hand explains the initial.1 Polly was a common familiar form of Mary in her time.1

Two marriages

The tree records, without a source, that she married Richard Hackett in South Carolina in 1792, and it names two daughters of that marriage, Elizabeth Hackett, born in 1793, and Salita Hackett, born in 1795, both in South Carolina.2 It gives no date for Richard Hackett's death beyond "before 25 December 1800," the date of her second marriage.3

On 25 December 1800 "Charles Webb and Polly Hackett" were married in Georgia; the tree places the marriage in Warren County.4 Inference That she married under the name Hackett is the one documentary support for her earlier marriage, and it suggests that she was then a widow, though the record in hand does not say so.4 Charles Webb had been born at Halifax, Virginia, in 1767, according to the tree.5

The Webb children

The tree names six Webb children: Charles Hackett Webb, born on 13 January 1802 in Georgia; Aaron Burleson Webb, born on 10 April 1806 in Warren County; Edmund Jefferson Webb (1808); Martha Sutton Webb (1811); and David Christopher Webb and Jonathan Daniel Webb, both given as born in 1814.6 Inference Two of the sons bear the names Hackett and Burleson, which suggests that the family remembered both her own surname and her first husband's; this naming, together with the marriage record, supports the tree's account of her two marriages.6 Charles Hackett Webb married Malinda Bailey in Monroe County, Georgia, in 1828 and moved his family to Coosa County, Alabama, by 1860.7

Death

She died in Jasper County, Georgia, on 23 July 1827, and was buried at Shady Dale, in that county; her memorial in the Find a Grave index names her "Mrs Mary Hackett Burleson Webb."8 Her widower married Mary Easters on 24 December 1829 and died in Monroe County, Georgia, in May 1849.9

Places

  1. 1800Warren
  2. 1827Shady Dale
  3. 1827Jasper

Timeline

  1. 18 May 1777BirthNorth Carolina
  2. 1792Marriage, Richard HackettSouth Carolina
  3. 25 Dec 1800Marriage, Charles C WebbWarren, Georgia
  4. 1827BurialShady Dale, Jasper, Georgia
  5. 23 Jul 1827DeathJasper, Georgia

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Mary Burleson, b. 1777 ±3, d. 1827 ±3: 0 results; Mary Webb, b. 1777 ±3, d. 1827 ±3: 0 results; Mary Hackett, b. 1777 ±3, d. 1827 ±3: 0 resultsno matches
  2. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Mary Burleson", Georgia182 pages; first: [1958 McCallum High School Yearbook, 1958, p. ](https://archive.org/details/classmates-yearbook-56707-1958-mccallum-high-school?q=%22Mary%20Burleson%22); [Olla Podrida, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/ollapodrida43unse_0?q=%22Mary%20Burleson%22); [1959 McCallum High School Yearbook, 1959, p. ](https://archive.org/details/classmates-yearbook-11191-1959-mccallum-high-school?q=%22Mary%20Burleson%22)
  3. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Polly burleson", Georgia6 pages; first: [Dillinghams of Big Ivy, Buncombe County, N.C. and related families, 1979, p. ](https://archive.org/details/dillinghamsofbig00hail?q=%22Polly%20burleson%22); [Dillinghams of Big Ivy, Buncombe County, N.C. and related families, 1979, p. ](https://archive.org/details/dillinghamsofbig00hail_0?q=%22Polly%20burleson%22); [Taps, 2002, p. ](https://archive.org/details/taps20clem_1?q=%22Polly%20burleson%22)
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Burleson", inside historyofwarrenc0000mrswnot searchable: historyofwarrenc0000mrsw (HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY, GEORGIA, 1793-1974.) is a lending-library book: borrow it on archive.org and search it in a browser
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Burleson", inside dardensofwilliam00dardno matches; 0 with the given name (Mary)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Mary Burleson", "Polly burleson", GeorgiaNot her: modern yearbooks and a Burleson family file index; "Polly Burleson" married Richard Priest in Madison County in 1815 (she married Charles C. Webb in 1800).
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Burleson" inside Dardens (none); Warren County history (lending library)No hits; the Warren County history is a to-do (she married in Warren County in 1800).
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 4 searchesNo match.
  9. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Mary Burleson"1 page; first: [Burleson, William (Mitchell County) (North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources), n.d., p. ](https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/1755500)
  10. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Polly burleson", Georgiano matches
  11. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: "Mary Burleson" (1 item)Not her: [a Confederate widow's pension application](https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/1755500) by Mary Burleson, widow of William Burleson, Mitchell County, North Carolina (State Archives of North Carolina). She died in Jasper County, Georgia, in 1827.
  12. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 2 searchesNo match.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KD1J-6TY: birth 18 May 1777, North Carolina, no source attached; also Polly Burleson, and Mary Burleson with the nickname Polly back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KD1J-6TY: marriage to Richard Hackett, 1792, South Carolina, no source attached FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCP7-ND3 (their page): Elizabeth Hackett, born 1793, South Carolina FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH6G-W6K (their page): Salita Hackett, born 1795, South Carolina back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KFRX-5F5 (their page): death before 25 Dec 1800, Warren, Georgia, no source attached back to the text
  4. "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Charles Webb and Polly Hackett, 25 Dec 1800. Record: Charles Webb and Polly Hackett, 25 Dec 1800 "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, Polly Hackett in entry for Charles Webb, 25 December 1800. Record: Polly Hackett in entry for Charles Webb, 25 December 1800 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KD1J-6TY: marriage 25 Dec 1800, Warren, Georgia back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4QJ-WC3 (their page): Charles C Webb, born 17 Apr 1767, Halifax, Virginia back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KD1J-6TY: children with Charles C Webb: Charles Hackett (1802), Aaron Burleson (1806), Edmund Jefferson (1808), Martha Sutton (1811), David Christopher (1814), Jonathan Daniel (1814) FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K64Q-FQQ (their page): born 13 Jan 1802, Georgia FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M1Y8-Y3R (their page): born 10 Apr 1806, Warren, Georgia back to the text
  7. "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Charles H. Wibb and Malinda Bailey, 1 Jan 1828. Record: Charles H. Wibb and Malinda Bailey, 1 Jan 1828 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Charles H Webb, 1860. Record: Charles H Webb, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K64Q-FQQ (their page): marriage 1 Jan 1828, Monroe, Georgia; residence 1860, 2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KD1J-6TY: death 23 Jul 1827, Jasper, Georgia; burial 1827, Shady Dale, Jasper, Georgia "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Mrs Mary Hackett Burleson Webb, 1827. Record: Mrs Mary Hackett Burleson Webb, Find a Grave Index, 1827 back to the text
  9. "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Charls Webb and Mary Easters, 24 Dec 1829. Record: Charls Webb and Mary Easters, 24 Dec 1829 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4QJ-WC3 (their page): death 23 May 1849, Blount, Monroe, Georgia back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Mary S. Burleson (3)
  1. 25 Dec 1800Polly Hackett, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  2. 25 December 1800Polly Hackett, "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967"
  3. 1827Mrs Mary Hackett Burleson Webb, "Find a Grave Index"