I’d Like to Meet

 Week 1 of 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks.

I’d Like to Meet

...my mother's grandmother, Annie Elizabeth Williams Webb. Her birth was recorded in Columbus MO, but she was probably born on a farm on June 20, 1862.

By the time she was 15 she had migrated with some family and friends to Texas, where she married 20 year old Leroy, (Larry, L.F.) Francis Webb, who had been born in Texas to a family from Maryland.

Their marriage on August 7, 1877 was recorded in the Goliad County records (microfilms now.) 

The Census for Goliad County in 1880 has L. F. Webb as a Retail Grocerer, and A. E. (Annie) at 18 is running the house for their first 2 sons, and L. F.'s 2 brothers and 2 sisters. 

The Grocery business had been handed down from L. F.'s father, Samuel James Webb, who had raised his little family in Goliad TX. L. F.'s mother had immigrated from New York, and his father had come from Maryland, and they also married in Goliad County, TX (1856).

Annie E. was born to William T. Williams who had come to Middleton, Missouri from Kentucky, and Dorcas White Williams also came from Kentucky. They had all their 8 children in Missouri. The 1870 census finds Dorcas working as a domestic and living in a boarding house under her maiden name, Dorcas White. Her husband may have already left for Texas where he bought land at least by 1877, then the family reunited by the 1880 census where William T. Williams was a farmer with the 3 youngest of their children still living with them. The Census has 3 other Williams' families listed next to them.  

Annie E. Williams Webb was living with L. F. Webb in 1880 in Goliad County. There's a photograph of the  Grocery/Feed Store, dated 1894, as if they are leaving Weesatchee, Goliad County TX. (That's the Anglicized version of the Spanish word, Huisache which is one of the trees in that area.)

By 1894 Annie had had 7 of her 8 children. The youngest to be born in Weesatchee was Albert James (Bud) Webb, in 1891, to become my mother's father.

They moved to Bexar County, which is where San Antonio is located! Her last son was born there in 1905.

I've already blogged about their life in San Antonio. See Here.

But I'll just mention in summary that my grandfather, Bud Webb, (at 24 years old) met and married 17 year old Mozelle Miller. Their daughter, Mataley Mozelle Webb was born in 1917, who grew up to be my mother.

But Bud didn't live to see his grandchildren. He was accidentally electrocuted in 1919 at 28 years of age. 

My mother apparently was raised by her other grandmother, and her mother's 3 sisters. She never mentioned seeing her grandmother Annie Elizabeth Williams Webb. Annie lived until July 8, 1942.

I've enjoyed finding out some details of this great grandmother's life, but am sorry that she had no contact with my mother. I don't know why that happened. Family histories often have these dangling situations. They knew why, but we'll never know.