Brief Life History of Lewis Franklin
When Lewis Franklin Webb was born on 16 January 1848, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, Henry Webb, was 46 and his mother, Amelia L. Ashworth, was 33. He married Nancy Elizabeth Mullen on 18 February 1869, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Laurel Fork, Carroll, Virginia, United States for about 40 years. He died on 14 March 1912, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Lewis F Webb Cemetery, Carroll, Virginia, United States.
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- Lewis F Webb, "United States Census, 1870"
- L. F., "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Lewis F. Webb, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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