Research and writing by:  Judith Cumbea Ware

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CHILDREN OF:

MARY TODD WARE          AND       CHARLES HENRY WEBB

(CALLED POLLY)

B. Sept. 04, 1772                         +                              B.  Feb. 06, 1755

D. Dec 29, 1854                        Feb. 24,1791               D.  1806
    of paralysis 

In a letter written to Sally Stribling by her Aunt Lucy Webb (sister of Polly), she writes:

 “Your Aunt Webb (Mary Todd Ware Webb) looks well; though thinner than usual.”  The letter was written sometime after 1820. 

 

(1) Frances (Fanny) Webb            +                               William Conn

       B. Dec. 20, 1791                                                          B.

       D.                                                                                D.

 

 

(2)  James Webb 

     B. Nov. 28, 1793

     D.

 

(3)  Charles Webb

       B.  Sept. 26, 1795

       D.

 

(4)   Charles H. Webb

       B. July 03, 1797

 

 

 

(5)   Dr. Charles Henry Webb Jr.      +                         Cassandra Ford

       B. July 02, 1798             Feb. 15, 1827         B. Aug. 07, 1807

       D. Oct. 30, 1844 (at 55)                                    D. Dec. 06, 1863 (10 a.m.)

 

 

(6)  John  W. Webb                                  +                                    

       B. Oct. 23, 1799

       D.

 

 

(7)  Nancy Webb                          +                              Dr. Harry E. Innis

     B.  1801                                                                   B. 1786

     D.  1884                                                                   D. June 18, 1833

 

 

(8)  Winifred (Winny) Webb        +                              George W. Williams

      B. Feb. 29, 1804               1824                                 B. Oct. 07, 1801

      D.                                                                              D.

 

 

 

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CHILDREN OF MARY (POLLY) TODD WARE & CHARLES WEBB

 

(1) Frances Webb was called (Fanny) and was born on December 20, 1791.  In records that are on file in the Rutherford B. Hayes Library, there are papers that say: “Mrs. Nancy Innis, the oldest living representation of the family in this part of the state tells me that she often heard her mother, Mrs. Charles Webb, say that her oldest child (Fanny) (born Dec. 1791) was but three months old when they came to Kentucky.  They descended the Ohio in flat boats in momentary apprehension of being attacked by the Indians.”  As an adult, Fanny married William Conn.  She had one daughter that I know of.  Her name was Catherine and she married a Unitarian minister named Mr. Ganoe.  In the letter from Lucy Webb to Sally, she writes”

“Your Uncle Thompson Ware (and all his family), and your Aunt Webb, Winny Williams, Catharine Ganoe - Fanny’s daughter (are) all Unitarians.  Mr. Ganoe is a Unitarian preacher – no great thing.  He’s a smart man enough if he would let preaching alone.  Catherine has a son – calls him William Conn (after her father).  If her mother (Fanny) had lived, she would have never married Ganoe; her Grandmama (Mary Polly Todd Ware) very much opposed to it, but likes him very well now.  He is a sickly man, worth nothing, but her father (William Conn) has bought James Conn’s place adjoining him.  They live there (if he ever pays for it) though the payments are quite easy. 

This is from the same letter that goes on to say that James Conn had moved near the blue licks- etc.  See * by Kitty’s name.

 

Fanny obviously had died before Catherine got married, and Lucy even refers to this death in the same letter.  She wrote that “your aunt (Mary Polly Webb) observed to me, with tears in her eyes, ‘O, if he {Dr. Scott} could have only seen Fanny, I think she would have got well.’ (as Sally Russell did.)”

 

 

(2) James Webb   B. Nov. 28, 1793

(3)  Charles Webb  B.Sept. 26, 1795

(4) Charles Webb   B.  July 03, 1797

 

Since all three of these names are listed in a family bible kept by Charles Webb (information courtesy of Sandra Walker), but no further data has been found on them, I think it might be safe to assume that these children died either in infancy or very young.  As was the custom at the time, when a child died young but the parents wished for the name to be carried on, they would simply name another child (born at a later date) the same name.  In this incidence, the facts are further substantiated by the fact that another Charles Webb H. was born later who did live long enough to marry and have children. (5) Charles Henry Webb Jr. was born on July 02, 1798 in Kentucky.  He later became a doctor and practiced medicine in that state.  He married Cassandra Ford on February 15, 1827 and they had several children; (approximately seven) – (1) Augusta Ware Webb (who later married Francis Ford), (2) Cassandra Ford Webb (who drowned in a steamboat accident with her father), (3) Nancy Winifred Webb, and another

(4) Cassandra Ford Webb (born after the accident that killed her sister).  We know there were four other children because they were mentioned in a letter, but the names were not given.

In a letter written by Cornelia Ware Anker in 1945, she wrote: “Among Father’s letters, I find one written in 1917 from Augusta Ware Webb Ford.  She was a descendant of Mary Todd Ware and Charles Webb.  She seemed to be a very lovely person, sent her photograph.  Her address was 69 W. 11^th St., Louisville, Kentucky.”

 

The following information is given by courtesy of Sandra Walker – a descendant of Augusta Ware Webb and also [obviously] Mary Todd Webb and Charles Webb.

According to a letter written by Augusta Ford Andrews, daughter of Augusta Ware Webb Ford –

  “Every year my mother’s father, Charles Henry Webb Jr. M.D., went to visit his mother Polly Todd Ware.  In 1844, as per schedule, he took the trip leaving his wife (Cassandra) who was expecting a child and the two youngest children at home.  He left the two oldest girls in school in Lexington, Kentucky.  On the way back there was an explosion on board the boat and a fire.  Dr. Webb was seriously injured and although gotten ashore, he died before his wife could get there; also one of the daughters was drowned.”

The children that were with Dr. Webb aboard the steamboat “Lucy Walker” were his daughters Cassandra (called Cannie) and Nancy Winifred (called Nannie).  Cannie was eleven at the time and Nannie was twelve.  Both daughters came close to death, but Cassandra was the one that died.  Consequently, (out of love and memory of her) the baby that Charles’s wife was carrying was named Cassandra once she was born.

(courtesy of Sandra Walker)          

 

(6)  John Webb was born on October 23, 1799 in Kentucky.  In Hayden’s genealogy book, he writes that “Mary Todd Webb’s son, John, lives in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.” 

 

   

 

 

(7) Nancy Webb was born on December 18, 1801.  She later married Dr. Harry (Henry) Eggleston Innis in Paris, Kentucky.  They had four children: (a) Charles,

(b) Mary,  (c) Frances, and (d) Robert.  Nancy died in 1884.  In a letter to Sally Stribling (written sometime after 1820) her Aunt Lucy Webb writes:

    “Nancy Innis has 4 children: Charles, Mary, Frances, and Robert.  The doctor is a very clever, rich man.”

 

 

(8) Winifred Webb was called Winny, and she was born on  Feb. 29, 1804.  In 1824, she married George W. Williams.  She had four children: (a) Mary, (b) Franklin, (c) Frances Webb, and (d) George.  In this same letter from Lucy Webb, it is written:

        “Winny Williams has four children; Mary, Franklin, Frances Webb, and I think the youngest named George.  She is in very bad health ever since her confinement about 4 months ago.  Mr. Williams is a sensible, clever man.  I suppose he will be rich at the death of his father – should he outlive him.  But Winny is very independent herself.  With the assistance of her mother, they are all doing well.”

 

      In a different letter (written on January 21, 1827) George Williams wrote to Josiah William Ware that:

“There was but one object on earth whose idea was enthroned in the center of my soul.  The possession of that object was the culmination of all my hopes, of all my desires.  You know that Heaven gave it to me and in it, my wife.  Since that time, the delirium (of young love) has subsided, the fever has abated, but in its place there has come a calm, a sensible, a reasonable knowledge of the worth of woman and the blessings of matrimony.  I hope, after this, you will be unwilling to entertain any more thoughts about my want of affection for your cousin, Winny.  What I have said, I assure you, is religiously true.”