Wade & Webb Family History

Bedia Herring1800–1840

Oglethorpe · Coosa

Bedia Herring married Alban Willingham in Georgia in 1815, and the tree gives the couple eleven children, born in Georgia and, by 1838, in Coosa County, Alabama. She died in 1840, and a Find a Grave memorial records her as Bedia Herring Willingham.

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

Birth

  1. 26 Apr 1800 Oglethorpe, Georgia 1, 4

Marriages

  1. 28 Mar 1815 Alban W. Willingham, at Oglethorpe, Macon, Georgia 2, 3

Death and burial

  1. 1840 Burial: place not recorded
  2. 20 Aug 1840 Death: Coosa, Talladega, Alabama 11

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 28 Mar 1815
Alban W. Willingham 1791–1858
Children
Nancy Ann Willingham 1838–1900
Robberson Willingham 1817–1896
Eda J Willingham 1825–1874
Edy Jane Willingham 1826–1838

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Bedia Herring
  2. Martha Holland Willingham, daughter
  3. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  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

Bedia Herring was born on 26 April 1800 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for the date or the place.1 On 28 March 1815 she married Alban Willingham, in a Georgia marriage record indexed under the name "Bedea Herring".2 The tree places the marriage at "Oglethorpe, Macon, Georgia", while the index citation gives no place.3 Inference Oglethorpe is also the county the tree gives for her birth, so Oglethorpe County is the likelier reading, but the record itself would settle it.3 Inference If the tree's birth date is right she was not yet fifteen when she married; since the date has no source, it may be a few years too late.4 Her husband, born on 8 June 1791, appears in the index to service records of the War of 1812.5

The tree gives the couple eleven children, born over twenty-three years: Sherman (18 December 1815), Robberson (6 November 1817, in Columbia County, Georgia), Frances (1822), Martha Holland and Martha Dollin (both 15 June 1824), Eda J. (about 1825), Edy Jane (28 June 1826), Bedy Alvline (20 June 1828), Mary Elizabeth (16 November 1830), Alban William (1 March 1835, in Coweta County, Georgia) and Nancy Ann (1 May 1838, in Coosa County, Alabama).6 Inference Two of these entries look doubtful.7 Martha Holland and Martha Dollin share a given name and a birth date, and Martha Dollin has no sources at all, so the two profiles probably describe one daughter; Eda J., who married in 1843, and Edy Jane, whom the tree has dying in 1838, have nearly the same name and may also be one person.7 The daughter Bedy Alvline bore a form of her mother's name, and the tree records her death and Edy Jane's on the same day, 24 September 1838.8

The children's birthplaces, as the tree gives them, place the family in Coweta County, Georgia, in 1835 and in Coosa County, Alabama, by 1838.9 Several of the children married in Chambers County, Alabama, between 1838 and 1848: Frances to John C. Barker, Eda J. to William G. Herrin in 1843, Martha Holland to Harris McKinney in 1844, in a record that names her father, Albon Willingham, and Robberson to Sarah E. Veasy in 1848.10

Bedia Willingham died on 20 August 1840, according to the tree, which gives the place as "Coosa, Talladega, Alabama" and records her burial in 1840 without a place.11 A Find a Grave memorial to Bedia Herring Willingham is indexed under the year 1840.11 Inference The tree's death place joins the names of two Alabama counties, Coosa and Talladega, and needs the memorial or another record to resolve it.11 Her widower married Susan Bennett in Chambers County on 9 April 1846.12 In 1850 he was in Coosa County, in the household indexed under Susan's name, and he was listed that year in the slave schedule, the separate part of the census that listed enslaved people, by age and sex rather than by name, under the name of the person who held them.13 He died at Rockford, Coosa County, on 16 October 1858, and is buried in the Willingham Cemetery at Hissop, in the same county.14

Documents

  1. 15 August 2016 Find a Grave memorial: Bedia Herring Willingham Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1800Oglethorpe
  2. 1815Oglethorpe
  3. 1840Coosa

Timeline

  1. 26 Apr 1800BirthOglethorpe, Georgia
  2. 28 Mar 1815Marriage, Alban W. WillinghamOglethorpe, Macon, Georgia
  3. 1840Burial
  4. 20 Aug 1840DeathCoosa, Talladega, Alabama
  5. 7 Aug 2000Record Change

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Bedia Herring, b. 1800 ±3, d. 1840 ±3: 0 results; Bedia Willingham, b. 1800 ±3, d. 1840 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [Bedia Herring Willingham (26 Apr 1800 – 20 Aug 1840), Burial Details Unknown, ](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168472518/bedia-willingham); score 15 (high, before review)
  2. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 168472518](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168472518), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/168472518-bedia-herring-willingham.md); 0 headstone photo(s)
  3. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Bedia Herring", Georgiano matches
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Herring", inside housingofogletho0000rodgnot searchable: housingofogletho0000rodg (The housing of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1790-1860 ) is a lending-library book: borrow it on archive.org and search it in a browser
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Herring", inside northernalabamah00birm1 page; first: [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 648](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n648/mode/1up?q=Herring); 0 with the given name (Bedia)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Herring", inside historyofalabama02chicno matches; 0 with the given name (Bedia)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Herring", inside alabamaherhistor00brewno matches; 0 with the given name (Bedia)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Bedia Herring", Georgia; "Herring" inside Brewer 1872, Owen vol. 2, *Northern Alabama*, Oglethorpe housing surveyNo hits for her name; the one *Northern Alabama* "Herring" hit is an unrelated town ordinance; the Oglethorpe County survey is a lending-library book (to-do).
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 5 searchesNo match.
  10. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Bedia Herring"no matches
  11. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 1 searchNo hits; nothing to assess.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YF1: birth 26 Apr 1800, Oglethorpe, Georgia, no source attached back to the text
  2. "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, Bedea Herring in entry for Alban Willingham, 28 March 1815. Record: Bedea Herring in entry for Alban Willingham, 28 March 1815 "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, Alban Willingham, 28 March 1815. Record: Alban Willingham, 28 March 1815 back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YF1: marriage 28 Mar 1815, Oglethorpe, Macon, Georgia; birth Oglethorpe, Georgia "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, Bedea Herring in entry for Alban Willingham, 28 March 1815. Record: no place in the citation back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YF1: birth 26 Apr 1800, no source attached "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, Bedea Herring in entry for Alban Willingham, 28 March 1815. Record: 28 March 1815 back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YX7 (their page): birth 8 Jun 1791 "United States, War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815", FamilySearch, Alban Willingham, 1812-1815. Record: Alban Willingham, United States, War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815 back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YF1: children of Alban W. Willingham and Bedia Herring FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVS6-QQK (their page): born 18 Dec 1815 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M4F9-WPF (their page): born 6 Nov 1817, Columbia, Georgia FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KPQR-21J (their page): born 1822 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW (their page): born 15 Jun 1824, Oglethorpe, Georgia FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2Y9-YDM (their page): born 15 Jun 1824, Georgia FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDYF-W82 (their page): born about 1825 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-M2V (their page): born 28 Jun 1826 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-SYC (their page): born 20 Jun 1828 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-9T3 (their page): born 16 Nov 1830 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNCR-Q7F (their page): born 1 Mar 1835, Coweta, Georgia FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LW62-MFZ (their page): born 1 May 1838, Coosa County, AL back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2Y9-YDM (their page): born 15 Jun 1824, no sources attached FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW (their page): born 15 Jun 1824 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDYF-W82 (their page): Eda J, born about 1825, married 1843 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-M2V (their page): Edy Jane, born 28 Jun 1826, died 24 Sep 1838 back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-SYC (their page): Bedy Alvline Willingham, death 24 Sep 1838 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-M2V (their page): death 24 Sep 1838 back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNCR-Q7F (their page): born 1 Mar 1835, Coweta, Georgia FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LW62-MFZ (their page): born 1 May 1838, Coosa County, AL back to the text
  10. "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Frances Willingham in entry for John C. Barker, 8 Jan 1839. Record: Frances Willingham in entry for John C. Barker, 8 Jan 1839 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, William G Herrin and Eda J Willingham, 11 Dec 1843. Record: William G Herrin and Eda J Willingham, 11 Dec 1843 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Albon Willingham in entry for Harris Mc Kinney and Martha H Willingham, 11 Sep 1844. Record: Albon Willingham in entry for Harris Mc Kinney and Martha H Willingham, 11 Sep 1844 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Roberson Willingham and Sarah E. Veasey, 26 Dec 1848. Record: Roberson Willingham and Sarah E. Veasey, 26 Dec 1848 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KPQR-21J (their page): marriage in Chambers, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M4F9-WPF (their page): marriage in Chambers, Alabama back to the text
  11. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YF1: death 20 Aug 1840, Coosa, Talladega, Alabama; burial 1840, no place "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Bedia Herring Willingham, 1840. Record: Bedia Herring Willingham, 1840, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  12. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Albin Willingham and Susan Bennett, 09 Apr 1846. Record: Albin Willingham and Susan Bennett, 09 Apr 1846 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YX7 (their page): marriage 9 Apr 1846, Chambers, Alabama back to the text
  13. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Alban Willingham in entry for Susan Wellingham, 1850. Record: Alban Willingham in entry for Susan Wellingham, 1850 "United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ", FamilySearch, Alban Willingham in entry for <Unknown>, 1850. Record: Alban Willingham, United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YX7 (their page): residence 1850, Coosa county back to the text
  14. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KV2X-YX7 (their page): death 16 Oct 1858, Rockford, Coosa, Alabama; burial Oct 1858, Willingham Cemetery Hissop, Coosa County "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Alban Willingham. Record: Alban Willingham, Find a Grave Index back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Bedia Herring (2)
  1. 28 March 1815Bedea Herring, "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967"
  2. 1840Bedia Herring Willingham, "Find A Grave Index"