Ellen Ann Delamater Webb 1842-1876

Ellen Ann Delamater Webb, daughter of William B. Delamater and Sarah J. Lester Delamater was born on 25 Jan 1842 in New York City, New York.

She married on the 21 Feb. 1856, in DeWitt County, Texas to Samuel James Webb. She was 14 years old, and he was 29. He had come from Maryland, perhaps in Vienna, Dorchester County, or in Baltimore MD.

The big question in my mind is "How did these two both get to Texas by 1856?"

And I've checked various siblings, when I could find them. There are unfortunately not many Delamaters to be found. And even more unfortunate is that there are actually a lot of Webbs, and most of them have the same names.

So for now we'll just assume some groups brought each of these great great grands to Texas where they met and married, and then stayed and raised their family. I considered an uncle of Ellen Ann Delamater. Her mother was named Sarah J. Lester, who had a brother Edward Lester...who was in the Delamater household in NY in 1850 (when Ellen Ann Delamater was listed as Ann E. at 9 years old.) His occupation was as a silver chaser, in various manufacturing industries (that's what the census says.) But he stayed in New York City apparently in the next census reports.

Ellen and Samuel Webb had 8 children. Sam'l was a farmer for the 1860 census of Gonzalez County TX with their first 2 children, Larry F. (1857-1921) (who went by L.F.), and Laura Mae (1859-1865).

By May 18, 1859 when Laura Mae was born, they had moved to DeWitt County TX. By the 1870 Census Samuel was now a merchant. But there had been a Civil War during the preceding years. He served for the Confederacy at the seige of Vicksburg, MS in 1863. (Though he was from Maryland, the people living in Texas were very much for the Confederacy.) See my post about his (and Ellen's) lives HERE, and some information about his serving with Waul's Texas Legion Here.

Ellen had other children, whether her husband was at war or back running a mercantile and/or farming, and their birthdates tell us how much he had been at home in Texas. Fannie Webb was born Aug 31, 1864, but died May 15, 1865. Their six year old daughter, Laura Mae, died on her birthday in 1865. Another daughter, Bobbie Webb, was born in Sept. 1866 and died Oct. 26, 1866. 

The war years were hard on the family, but the eldest son L.F managed to hang on with his mother and father. By June 6, 1868, they had a daughter named Phinnie Floree Webb (1868-1902). On 23 Nov. 1870 they had another son, Joe Friend Webb, (1870-1928) who would grow up to become a preacher. 

On 23 April 1873 or 74, Daisy Ellen Webb (1874-1941) was born. And on 28 Feb. 1876 Samuel James Webb Jr. (1876-1892) was born. He was only 4 months old when his mother died on 15 Jul 1876 in Clinton, Dewitt, Texas, age 34 years.

She was buried in Clinton Cemetery, where her daughter Laura Mae had been buried in 1865. Within a year her husband wrote his will, (July 10, 1877) leaving his estate and guardianship of their younger children to their eldest son L. F. Webb. The young children were Phinnie, Joe, D.E. and Sam Webb. 

L. F. actually got married on Aug 7, 1877, and then his father died on Aug. 15, 1877. The 1880 Census shows L. F. and his wife did have his 2 brothers and 2 sisters living with them. And incidentally, L. F. is my great grandfather.

Samuel J. Webb was buried next to his wife in Clinton Cemetery.

Clinton Cemetery, Texas

To the Memory of S. J. Webb, Born Jan 28, 1827, Died Aug. 15, 1877

To the memory of Ellen A. wife of S. J. Webb born Jan 26, 1842 died Jul 15, 1876

This post belongs to the Barbara Booth Rogers Family Tree. Photo shows Mataley Mozelle Rogers, and her mother Mozelle Booth Miller, and my sister Mary Beth Rogers.