Brief Life History of Frances Cornelia
When Frances Cornelia Webb was born in 1815, in Hudson, Columbia, New York, United States, her father, General Henry Livingston Webb, was 20 and her mother, Mary Ann Edmonds, was 19. She married Willis Willard on 18 November 1835, in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Dongola, Union, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 25 June 1883, at the age of 68, and was buried in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois, United States.
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- F E Willard in household of Willis Willard, "United States Census, 1860"
- Frances Cornelia Webb Willard, "Find A Grave Index"
- Francie B Webb in entry for Simon Willard and Sara Brewster, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1823
Historical Boundaries: 1823: Union, Illinois, United States
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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