--part1_b0.e0e018.25c8e198_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_b0.e0e018.25c8e198_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: Purvisweb Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:15:10 EST Subject: Re: [HARPER] RE: Harpers in Monongalia Co, WV To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 44 Troy: Saw your information on the Harpers. Would like to provide the following information: Mary Frances HARPER daughter of Robert HARPER from what I've been told and what is in the "Pioneers of Tuscaloosa County" did indeed marry James WEBB. However, the information on the death of James WEBB is based on the fact that "a" James WEBB died and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Tuscaloosa. This is probably not the James WEBB who was the spouse of Mary Frances HARPER. I realize that the approximate birth dates of the two - and the ages are within the 2 year range which genealogists recognize as being sacrosanct. My husband James Robert WEBB is a direct descendent of James WEBB, husband of Mary Frances HARPER. James WEBB and family are in Tuscaloosa County in 1830. James WEBB and family are in Choctaw County, MS in 1840. A land transaction between a William Thieary on or before 19 October 1840 (date recorded) is recorded in an archived (retrieved from a storehouse and donated to the State Archives) document. James WEBB and Mary are in Choctaw County, MS in 1850 with children: Permelia, Celina, James and Cedenia (some of these are apparently grandchildren). Adult children William Harper WEBB and Robert Clark WEBB live nearby. James WEBB and Mary are in Winston County in 1860 and listed on the Census. In the 1870 cenus Mary WEBB is listed as living in the household of her son-in-law William Massey. Mary WEBB is buried at Camp Ground Cemetery in Winston County. (The family in recent years (the last 20 or so) placed a marker at her grave site). The family relates that James WEBB during the Civil War returned "home" because of the illness or death of a relative and either did not return and was buried back "home" or is in an unmarked grave next to the "unmarked" (marked with a large stone) grave of his wife who lived many years past his demise. Although my husband's line left MS in about 1859, the William Harper WEBB line has remained and is still strongly entrenched in Winston County. We have visited with them and been provided information on the family by them. I have no doubt (unless Mary Frances lost one James WEBB as a husband and married another James WEBB - farfetched - but still possible) that the James WEBB who is in the Greenwood Cemetery is not the James WEBB who was the husband of Mary Frances HARPER. Would love to have your thoughts. Barbara Webb [email protected] --part1_b0.e0e018.25c8e198_boundary--