Wade & Webb Family History

John Waggoner Webb1787–1870

Bulverde · Monticello · Monroe

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

Birth

  1. 8 Oct 1787 Bulverde, Comal County, Texas 1

Marriages

  1. 23 Sep 1810 Margaret Green, at Jasper, Georgia 3
  2. Date unknown spouse unknown

Death and burial

  1. 27 Jul 1870 Death: Monroe County, Georgia 8

Family

Parents
Charles C Webb 1767–1849
Sarah Waggoner 1757–1799
Marriage 1, 23 Sep 1810
Margaret Green 1790–1843
Children
Margaret Webb 1828–1844
Charles Green Webb 1812–1883
Sarah Frances Webb 1816–1852
George Washington Webb 1834–1925
Sarah Frances Webb 1832–1905
James Monroe Webb 1830–1899
Edmund Berry Webb 1819–1875
Francis Marion Webb 1813–1839
Nancy Webb 1821–1902
John Wilson Webb 1825–1864
William Henry Webb 1817–1849
Mary Jane Webb 1835–1924
Marriage 2
Spouse unknown
Children
Elizabeth Webb 1811–1849

Line of descent Webb line

  1. John Waggoner Webb
  2. Half-brother of Charles Hackett Webb
  3. Charles David Webb, son
  4. James Pleasant Webb, son
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Half-2nd great-granduncle of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

John Waggoner Webb was born on 8 October 1787, the eldest of the eight children the FamilySearch tree gives Charles C. Webb (1767–1849) and his first wife, Sarah Waggoner (1757–1799), who had married in Wilkes County, Georgia, in December 1786.1 The tree places his birth at "Bulverde, Comal County, Texas", which cannot be right for 1787, when his parents were in Georgia; no source is attached, and his true birthplace is not yet known.2 On 23 September 1810 John Webb married Margret Green in Jasper County, Georgia, the date recorded in the Georgia county marriage index.3 The federal census of 1820 lists a John Webb, whom the tree places at Monticello, Jasper County.4 The tree names twelve children of the marriage, born between 1812 and 1835, among them Charles Green Webb (1812–1883), Edmund Berry Webb (1819–1875), James Monroe Webb (1830–1899) and George Washington Webb (1834–1925), and a thirteenth, Elizabeth (1811–1849), whom it lists without a mother.5 Margaret died on 7 July 1843 in Monroe County, Georgia, and was buried in the Webb Cemetery there.6 The census of 1850 again lists John Webb in Monroe County.7 The tree records no second marriage, and he died in Monroe County on 27 July 1870.8 Searches of the Chronicling America newspaper collection for a death notice found none, and the John Webbs who do appear in it, among them a Methodist preacher of Laurens County who died in 1852 and a hotel-keeper at Thomaston whose wife was killed in 1867, are judged to be other men, the second only probably so.9

Open questions

  • Birthplace in the tree is "Bulverde, Comal County, Texas" in 1787, which is impossible (Texas was Spanish, Bulverde was founded in the 1850s); his parents are placed in Virginia and Warren County, Georgia. For Matt to check in FamilySearch.
  • Did he remarry after Margaret Green died in 1843? The tree has nothing between 1843 and his death in 1870. The Southern Christian Advocate of 1867-06-21 (p.4) has the obituary of Mrs. Amanda B. Webb, aged 46, wife of a John Webb who kept the hotel at Thomaston, Upson County (adjoining Monroe), leaving step-daughters. Probably another man (ours was 79 and a farmer), but his 1850 and 1860 census households would settle it.
  • Georgia Historic Newspapers (429 today): no Forsyth paper survives for 1870, so his death notice or estate citation would be in the Macon papers; Milledgeville papers for Jasper County land and estate notices 1810–1850.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "John Webb", Georgia, 1870–1871no matches
  2. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "John Webb", Georgia, 1809–1811no matches
  3. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "John Webb", Georgia, 1802–187112 pages; first: [The Chattanooga Daily Rebel (Chattanooga, Tenn.), 1863-05-16, p. 2](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015209/1863-05-16/ed-1/?sp=2); [Southern Christian advocate (Charleston, S.C.), 1839-12-20, p. 3](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87065702/1839-12-20/ed-1/?sp=3); [Southern Christian advocate (Charleston, S.C.), 1838-07-20, p. 3](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87065702/1838-07-20/ed-1/?sp=3)
  4. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "John W Webb", Georgia, 1802–18714 pages; first: [Southern Christian advocate (Charleston, S.C.), 1866-12-14, p. 4](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87065702/1866-12-14/ed-1/?sp=4); [Southern Christian advocate (Charleston, S.C.), 1853-01-07, p. 1](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87065702/1853-01-07/ed-1/?sp=1); [Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), 1860-11-17, p. 2](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045160/1860-11-17/ed-1/?sp=2)
  5. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "J W Webb", Georgia, 1802–18712880 pages; first: [Southern Christian advocate (Charleston, S.C.), 1864-05-19, p. 3](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87065702/1864-05-19/ed-1/?sp=3); [The Chattanooga Daily Rebel (Chattanooga, Tenn.), 1863-03-12, p. 1](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015209/1863-03-12/ed-1/?sp=1); [Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), 1861-11-02, p. 2](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045160/1861-11-02/ed-1/?sp=2)
  6. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "John webb", Georgia, 1802–187112 pages; first: [The Chattanooga Daily Rebel (Chattanooga, Tenn.), 1863-05-16, p. 2](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015209/1863-05-16/ed-1/?sp=2); [Southern Christian advocate (Charleston, S.C.), 1839-12-20, p. 3](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87065702/1839-12-20/ed-1/?sp=3); [Southern Christian advocate (Charleston, S.C.), 1838-07-20, p. 3](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87065702/1838-07-20/ed-1/?sp=3)
  7. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "John Webb", Georgia, 1802–1871 (12 pages; the "John webb" search returned the same 12)All 12 pages read. None is John Waggoner Webb. (1) Chattanooga Daily Rebel 1863-05-16 p.2: a Confederate deserter list, "John Webb, about 23 years old", Alabama Cavalry; ours was 75. (2) Southern Christian Advocate 1837-08-26, 1838-07-20, 1839-12-20, 1841-02-19 and 1843-02-03, all p.3: subscription receipts for "Rev. John Webb, Buck Eye, Laurens co., Ga." (Buckeye, Laurens/Washington County, a Methodist local preacher), and 1852-05-14 p.4 his obituary: "Died, in Washington co., Ga., February 29, Rev. John Webb, more than 70 years old... a faithful minister in the M. E. Church for upwards of 40 years" — a different man, dead in 1852 while ours lived to 1870 in Monroe County. (3) 1837-09-03 p.3: a John Webb among subscribers forwarded by Rev. S. W. Capers of Fairfield circuit (South Carolina) — not him. (4) 1867-06-21 p.4: obituary of Mrs. Amanda B. Webb, wife of John Webb who "kept the hotel" at Thomaston, Ga. (Upson County), killed 3 June 1867 when thrown from a buggy, in her 47th year, leaving a husband and step-daughters. Upson adjoins Monroe, but the tree has our John aged 79, a farmer, widowed since 1843 with no second marriage; a hotel-keeper husband of a woman of 46 is most likely another John Webb. Not this person (low probability); see Open questions. (5) Memphis Daily Appeal 1867-06-29 p.1: Masonic history, "Webb, in 1800" (Thomas Smith Webb), not a person. Tool note: the Georgia state facet returned only papers that were published in Georgia for part of their run (Southern Christian Advocate at Macon/Augusta, Memphis Appeal and Chattanooga Rebel in exile); no Georgia-based title appears, and Georgia content proper is on Georgia Historic Newspapers (429 today).
  8. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "John W Webb", Georgia, 1802–1871 (4 pages)All four read; none is him, and none actually prints "John W Webb" (loc.gov matched other middle initials). Southern Christian Advocate 1866-12-14 p.4, Georgia Conference: "John C. Webb" among local preachers ordained deacon; 1853-01-07 p.1, Memphis Conference appointments: "John T. Webb", Troy (Tenn.); Memphis Daily Appeal 1860-11-17 p.2, conference appointments: "John P. Webb", Iuka circuit (Miss.); 1860-09-27 p.1, advertisements: "John L. Webb" of Webb & Rawlings, cotton factors, Memphis. Not this person in every case.
  9. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "J W Webb", Georgia, 1802–1871 (2,880 pages)Not assessed: loc.gov drops one-letter words, so this was effectively a search for "Webb" and the count is uninformative. The two pilot passages that do show "J W Webb" (Southern Christian Advocate 1864-05-19 p.3, subscriber no. 2630 in a receipts list; Chattanooga Daily Rebel 1863-03-12 p.1, an unclaimed-letters list) carry no place or relative and cannot be identified from initials alone.

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to John Waggoner Webb.

  1. 23 September 1810John Webb, "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967"
  2. 23 Sep 1810John Webb, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  3. 1820John Webb, "United States, Census, 1820"
  4. 1850John Webb, "United States, Census, 1850"
  5. 17 Aug 1914John Webb, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  6. John Waggoner Webb, 'Geni World Family Tree' on MyHeritage
  7. 23 Sep 1810Entry for John Webb and Margret Green, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNQL-PHN: birth 8 Oct 1787, parents Charles C Webb and Sarah Waggoner FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4QJ-WC3 (their page): marriage to Sarah Waggoner 21 Dec 1786, Wilkes County, Georgia; eight children of that marriage, 1787–1799 back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNQL-PHN: birthplace Bulverde, Comal County, Texas, no source Research log, searches made: open question: the Texas birthplace is impossible; his parents are placed in Virginia and Warren County, Georgia back to the text
  3. "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, John Webb and Margret Green, 23 Sep 1810. Record: John Webb and Margret Green, Georgia, County Marriages, 23 Sep 1810 "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, John Webb, 23 September 1810. Record: John Webb, Georgia, Marriages, 23 September 1810 "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, John Webb and Margret Green, 23 Sep 1810. Record FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNQL-PHN: marriage 23 Sep 1810, Jasper, Georgia back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1820", FamilySearch, John Webb, 1820. Record: John Webb, 1820 census FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNQL-PHN: residence 1820, Monticello, Jasper, Georgia back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNQL-PHN: twelve children with Margaret Green, 1812–1835, and Elizabeth Webb (1811–1849) in a family with no mother recorded back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L25R-M6S (their page): death 7 Jul 1843, Monroe, Georgia; burial Webb Cemetery, Monroe, Georgia back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, John Webb, 1850. Record: John Webb, 1850 census FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNQL-PHN: residence 1850, Monroe, Georgia back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNQL-PHN: death 27 Jul 1870, Monroe County, Georgia; no later marriage recorded back to the text
  9. Research log, searches made: Chronicling America, John Webb, Georgia, 1802–1871: all 12 pages read, none is him; Rev. John Webb of Buck Eye, Laurens co., died 1852; Mrs. Amanda B. Webb, wife of John Webb who kept the hotel at Thomaston, 1867, most likely another John Webb back to the text