Brief Life History of Phoebe Arabella
When Phoebe Arabella Webb was born on 22 February 1848, in Harris Grove, Harrison, Iowa, United States, her father, John Webb, was 39 and her mother, Catherine Naramore, was 38. She died on 17 July 1850, in Utah, United States, at the age of 2.
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- Phoebe Arabella Webb, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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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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Phoebe Arabella Webb
Phoebe Arabella Webb, born 22 February 1848 in Harris Grove, Harrison, Iowa; died 17 July 1850 in Wyoming on the Mormon Trail. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial; Stone 1 (left side) Phoe …
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