Wade & Webb Family History

Edy Jane Willingham1826–1838

Georgia

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Notes

Birth

  1. 28 Jun 1826 Georgia 1

Marriages

Not recorded.

Death and burial

  1. 24 Sep 1838 Death: place not recorded 1, 2

Family

Parents
Alban W. Willingham 1791–1858
Bedia Herring 1800–1840

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Edy Jane Willingham
  2. Sister of Martha Holland Willingham
  3. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

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

Life

Edy Jane Willingham is known only from the FamilySearch tree, which attaches no source to her.1 It names her as a daughter of Alban W. Willingham and Bedia Herring, born in Georgia on 28 June 1826, and gives her death on 24 September 1838, without a place.1 Her younger sister Bedy Alvline is recorded as dying on the same day.2 Inference A shared death date may point to a common cause, but it may also be a copying error in the tree, and no record of either death has been found.2 The family had moved from Georgia to Coosa County, Alabama, by 1838, when the youngest child, Nancy Ann, was born there.3 The tree also gives the couple a daughter Eda J., born about 1825, who married William G. Herrin in 1843.4 Inference The names Eda J. and Edy Jane are so close that the two profiles may describe one woman, in which case the 1838 death date is wrong; the marriage and census records of Eda J. are the place to test this.4

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-M2V: birth 28 Jun 1826, Georgia; death 24 Sep 1838, no place; parents Alban W. Willingham and Bedia Herring; no sources back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-SYC (their page): Bedy Alvline Willingham, death 24 Sep 1838 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2YS-M2V: death 24 Sep 1838 back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LW62-MFZ (their page): born 1 May 1838, Coosa County, AL back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDYF-W82 (their page): Eda J Willingham, born about 1825, Georgia, married William G Herrin 8 Dec 1843 "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 back to the text