Wade & Webb Family History

William Graggs1801–1866

Georgia · Milltown Cemetery

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

Birth

  1. 2 Mar 1801 Georgia 1, 5

Marriages

  1. 1822 Malinda Carlisle, at Georgia
  2. 2 Mar 1826 Elizabeth P. Thompson, at Morgan, Georgia 1, 3

Death and burial

  1. 1866 Burial: Milltown Cemetery, Chambers, Alabama
  2. 13 Feb 1866 Death: Chambers, Alabama 7

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Marriage 1, 1822
Malinda Carlisle 1804–1828
Children
Joseph Post Griggs 1822–1865
Marriage 2, 2 Mar 1826
Elizabeth P. Thompson 1803–1884

Line of descent Webb line

  1. William Graggs
  2. Husband of Malinda Carlisle
  3. Robert Whatley Carlisle
  4. Clarrissa Jane Carlisle, daughter
  5. James Pleasant Webb, son
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

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

Life

William Graggs was born in Georgia on 2 March 1801, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date; his surname is also written Gragge and Griggs in the records.1 The tree records his first marriage, in 1822 in Georgia, to Malinda Carlisle, a daughter of Edmund Carlile and Elizabeth Ann Whatley, and names a son of that marriage, Joseph Post Griggs (1822–1865).2 On 2 March 1826 a William Gragge married Elizabeth P. Thompson in Morgan County, Georgia, a marriage the tree attaches to him as his second.3 Inference The tree gives Malinda's death as 1828, which cannot stand beside a remarriage in 1826; her burial year of 1824 in the tree and the Find a Grave index is the likelier date.4 Inference That the marriage of 1826 falls on the same day and month as the tree's date for his birth may mean that one date was copied into the other.5 By 1850 he had moved west to Chambers County, Alabama, where the federal census of that year listed William Graggs, and in 1860 the census listed "Wm Griggs" in the Northern Division of the same county.6 He died in Chambers County on 13 February 1866 and was buried in the Milltown Cemetery there, according to the tree and the Find a Grave index.7

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to William Graggs.

  1. 2 March 1826William Gragge, "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967"
  2. 1850William Graggs, "United States, Census, 1850"
  3. 1860Wm Griggs, "United States, Census, 1860"
  4. Georgia Marriages 1808-1965
  5. William Graggs, "Find a Grave Index"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD5B-P89: birth 2 Mar 1801, Georgia, no source attached "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, William Gragge, 2 March 1826. Record: William Gragge "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Wm Griggs, 1860. Record: Wm Griggs, 1860 back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD5B-P89: marriage 1822, Georgia, to Malinda Carlisle FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K8RQ-8PL (their page): parents Edmund Carlile and Elizabeth Ann Whatley; child Joseph Post Griggs (1822–1865) back to the text
  3. "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, William Gragge, 2 March 1826. Record: William Gragge, 2 March 1826, Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967 Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 29 September 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City. Record: Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD5B-P89: marriage 2 Mar 1826, Morgan, Georgia, to Elizabeth P. Thompson back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K8RQ-8PL (their page): death 1828; burial 1824 "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Malinda Augusta Carlisle Graggs, 1824. Record: Malinda Augusta Carlisle Graggs, 1824 back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD5B-P89: birth 2 Mar 1801; marriage 2 Mar 1826 back to the text
  6. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, William Graggs, 1850. Record: William Graggs, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Wm Griggs, 1860. Record: Wm Griggs, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD5B-P89: residence 1850, Chambers, Alabama; 1860, Northern Division, Chambers, Alabama back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD5B-P89: death 13 Feb 1866, Chambers, Alabama; burial 1866, Milltown Cemetery, Chambers "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, William Graggs. Record: William Graggs, Find a Grave Index back to the text