Wade & Webb Family History

Elizabeth Strong1809–?

Harrison · Cumming · Clark

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

Birth

  1. about 1809 Clarke, Georgia

Marriages

  1. 3 Jan 1837 Sherman 'Shamie' Willingham SR, at Coweta, Georgia 2, 6
  2. about 1825 Thomas Willingham, at Of, Clark, Georgia
  3. before 1835 Thomas Willingham
  4. 3 Jan 1837 Thomas Willingham, at Coweta, Georgia 2, 6
  5. 3 Jan 1837 Thomas Willingham, at Coweta, Georgia 2, 6

Death and burial

  1. Date unknown Death: Clark, Georgia

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Marriage 1, 3 Jan 1837
Sherman 'Shamie' Willingham SR 1815–1915
Children
Sherman Orwon Willingham 1846–1918
S H Willingham 1846–1946
Martha Ann Willingham 1845–?
Martha A C Willingham 1841–1890
C R Willingham 1841–1941
Mary Francis Willingham 1838–1900
Sherman Onice Willingham 1846–1916
Marriage 2, about 1825
Thomas Willingham 1805–?

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Elizabeth Strong
  2. Wife of Sherman 'Shamie' Willingham SR
  3. Martha Holland Willingham
  4. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  5. Lila Walden, daughter
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

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

Life

Elizabeth Strong was born about 1809 in Clarke County, Georgia, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for it.1 On 3 January 1837 she married Shimei Willingham, the eldest son of Alban W. Willingham and Bedia Herring, in a marriage the tree places in Coweta County, Georgia.2 The federal census of 1850 listed an E. M. Willingham in the household of S. Willingham, and the tree places her that year in Harrison County, Texas.3 The tree names seven children born between 1838 and 1846.4 It also gives her a residence at Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1880, and a death in Clarke County, Georgia, with no date, neither with a source.5 The tree records a second husband for her, Thomas Willingham, born in 1805, with marriage events of "about 1825" in Clarke County and "before 1835", and two more dated 3 January 1837 in Coweta County.6 Inference The 1837 events repeat the date and place of her marriage to Shimei Willingham and were probably copied to the wrong couple; if a marriage to Thomas Willingham took place, it was before 1837.6 Two images from the Georgia probate records are attached to her profile, one from the Clarke County estate files and one from the Coweta County book of wills and returns for 1828 to 1892; their citations do not say whose estates the pages concern.7

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Elizabeth Strong.

  1. 3 January 1837Elizabeth Strong, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  2. 3 January 1837Elizabeth Strong, "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967"
  3. 1850E M Willingham, "United States, Census, 1850"
  4. Clarke, Georgia, Estate records
  5. Elizabeth Strong will
  6. 3 January 1837Shimei Willingham, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MLRN-X2B: birth about 1809, Clarke, Georgia, no source attached back to the text
  2. "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Shimei Willingham and Elizabeth Strong, 3 January 1837. Record: Shimei Willingham and Elizabeth Strong, 3 January 1837 "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Strong in entry for Shimei Willingham, 3 January 1837. Record: Elizabeth Strong in entry for Shimei Willingham, 3 January 1837 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MLRN-X2B: marriage 3 Jan 1837, Coweta, Georgia FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVS6-QQK (their page): son of Alban W. Willingham and Bedia Herring back to the text
  3. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, E M Willingham in entry for S Willingham, 1850. Record: E M Willingham in entry for S Willingham, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MLRN-X2B: residence 1850, Harrison, Texas back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MLRN-X2B: children of Sherman Willingham and Elizabeth Strong, 1838–1846 back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MLRN-X2B: residence 1880, Cumming, Forsyth, Georgia; death Clark, Georgia, no date; no sources back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MLRN-X2B: marriage to Thomas Willingham (1805–?): about 1825, Of, Clark, Georgia; before 1835; 3 Jan 1837, Coweta, Georgia (twice) "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Shimei Willingham and Elizabeth Strong, 3 January 1837. Record: Shimei Willingham and Elizabeth Strong, 3 January 1837 back to the text
  7. "Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990," database with images, FamilySearch, Clarke > Estates 1797-1949 Spullic, Winiford-Tarpley, Joseph > image 785 of 1297; citing various county, district, and probate courts. Record: Georgia, Probate Records, Clarke > Estates 1797-1949 > image 785 of 1297 "Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990," database with images, FamilySearch, Coweta > Wills and returns 1828-1892 vol A-B > image 67 of 522; citing various county, district, and probate courts. Record: Georgia, Probate Records, Coweta > Wills and returns 1828-1892 vol A-B > image 67 of 522 back to the text