Mary Ann Webb

Brief Life History of Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Webb was born in July 1863, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Theophilus Webb, was 25 and her mother, Leah Minerva Webb, was 20. She married Jesse Osburn in 1887. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in White River Township, Washington, Arkansas, United States in 1880. She was buried in Harmony Cemetery, Harmony, Johnson, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jesse Osburn
1861–1906
Mary Ann Webb
1863–
Marriage: 1887
Mary Minerva Osburn
1896–1947
Henry Osburn
1902–
Lillie E. Osburn
1899–

Sources (4)

  • Mary Ann Webb in household of T W Webb, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Mary Ann Osburn, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
  • Mary A Campbell in household of Jackson L Campbell, "United States Census, 1910"

World Events (8)

1864 · Skirmish at Benton

Confederate forces in Arkansas began an invasion of Missouri, while other Confederate sources probed the line around Little Rock. On July  6, 1864 the fourth Arkansas Cavalry tried to break the line around Little Rock one soldier was killed, eight were wounded, three went missing from the Union side and four were killed and six wounded from the Confederate side.

1865 · Sultana Tragedy

In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a weaver, from early Middle English webbe (Old English webba (masculine) or webbe (feminine), probably used of both male and female weavers). This word survived into Middle English long enough to give rise to the surname, but was already obsolescent as an agent noun; hence the secondary forms with the agent suffixes -er and -ster (see Webster , Webber and compare Weaver ).

Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, cognates of 1, including Weber and Weberman.

History: Richard Webb, a Lowland Scot, was an admitted freeman of Boston in 1632, and in 1635 was one of the first settlers of Hartford, CT.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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