Marsha, I have been watching the corrospondance regarding Webb's in WV... I have a Webb who may have come from that area though he regularly reports he was born in KY. My gggrandfather is Addison R. Webb. Here is what I have on him to date, I have spent endless hours, weeks, months, and years researching this fellow...and I suspect that part of his family went to Ohio or Ill... for that is where I find simular names that he uses in his family.. such as Christopher Columbus, and Addison and of course the indominable JOHN.... 1. ADDISON R1 WEBB was born Abt. 1798 in Kentucky/Virgini, and died November 1873 in Aberdeen, Monroe Co. Miss. He married NANCY DILLON 1827. Notes for ADDISON R WEBB: While census reports regualrly recite that Addison R. and Nancy Dillon Webb were born in Kentucky, family tradition holds that both were born in Virginia, he about 1798 and she, at a place called Dillon's Run , about 1810. The family story relates that he, as a big boy, was apprenticed to a large firm of blacksmiths in New York City and, upon becoming a journeyman, returned to Virginia to be employed on the plantation of Nancy's father. Addison and Nancy fell in love but her family objected to the match, possibly because of her youth( she was only eighteen when her first child was born). They eloped, apparentley coming immediately to Hunstville, Alab where their first child was born, and never had contact with either one's family again. We do not know the names of their parents. We know little of the Webb's life in Huntsville. Addison was a Mason. There is a picture of him which shows him in what is said to be a Master's Apron. He was never Master of the Aberdene lodge so it must have been in Huntsville lodge that he so served. An extant demit was issued Addison by the Huntsville Lodge November5ht, 1842, establishing when the family moved to Aberdeen. Six children were born to the family in Alab. Jerome, Paloma, Obediana Jefferson, Ruth R., Christopher Columbus, and Mary benton. Three more were born in Mississippi, Alabama, Goregia, Robert, William Edward, and Nancy. There are a number of type o's in this.. but maybe you can make it out... I can send my FTM webste if that will help. If this information rings any bells with anyone please let me know... I have spent 21 years on this family and am no farther along that I was way back then... Louise Kay Horton