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Données personnelles Margaret Webb 

• Elle est née en l'an 1794 dans Newberry Township, York County, Pennsylvania.Source 3
• Résidant en l'an 1850: Conemaugh Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.Source 3
• Elle est décédée en l'an 1876 dans Cook Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, elle avait 82 ans.
• Un enfant de John Webb et Rose

Famille de Margaret Webb

Elle est mariée avec Jacob William Eppley.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1816, elle avait 22 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Jacob William Eppley  1822-1887 
2. James Eppley  1825-1900 

Notes par Margaret Webb

Webb is the maiden name of Margaret Eppley, wife of Jacob of Somerset
Co., according to the obituary of son David Eppley.(1) Since Margaret
married Jacob Eppley of Fairview Twp., York Co., Pa., and since the
couple made their home in that community for the first ten years of
their marriage, it seems logical to begin the search for Margaret's
parents in that area.
   Margaret was age 56 on the 1850 census and 65 on the 1860 census,
so it  appears that she was probably born about 1794.(2) This would
make her 5-6  years old in 1800, and 15-16 in 1810. There are only two
Webb families  with a daughter or daughters in this age range in
Fairview Twp. These  were the families of John and Joseph Webb,(3)
brothers, who were sons of  John Webb "Sr.," pioneer settler of
Newberry Twp., York Co.(4)
   John seems a better candidate for Margaret's father than Joseph.
John's  dwelling was located closer to the Eppleys than that of his
brother.  Joseph Webb's wife was Mary Harris, daughter of George
Harris,(5) and  Margaret Webb Eppley did not name either of her
daughters Mary, nor were any of her four sons named Joseph. Margaret's
eldest son was named John,  but this was probably in honor of his
paternal grandfather, John Eppley.  A James Webb, who came of age on
the Fairview Twp. tax list in 1821, was  very possibly a brother of
Margaret, since Margaret named a son James  Eppley, and the name James
does not occur anywhere in her husband's  family. Since James Webb
came of age in Fairview, he is likely a son of  John, as Joseph Webb
had already removed to neighboring Newberry Twp. in  1816.(6)
   All of Margaret's children seemed to be given traditional Eppley
family  names, with the exception of her son James, and her second
daughter, who  was named Rosanna. I suspected that the name "Rosanna"
might somehow  hold a clue to Margaret's ancestry.
   In 1994, Mrs. Alice Getman of Michigan, a descendant of Joseph
Webb's  son John, put me in touch with Pauline Ritchie of Ohio.
Pauline's Webb  ancestor, a John Webb born in 1813, resided in
Richland Twp., Cambria  Co., Pa. He married twice, his first wife
being Frana Thomas, daughter of George and Eve Thomas of Conemaugh
Twp., Somerset Co. His second wife  was a cousin of his first, Frances
Thomas Wiland, daughter of Benjamin  Thomas, and the widow of Abraham
Wiland.
   Since the Eppleys were traditionally said to have settled on the
Thomas  farm,(7) and since Margaret Webb Eppley was located in
Conemaugh Twp.  after her husband's death, this John Webb seemed a
good candidate for a relative. John and his second wife named their
eldest daughter Rosanna.
   On John's marriage application to Frances Wiland in 1853, he stated
that  he was born in York Co., and that his parents were John and Rose
Webb.(8)  At first glance it seemed unlikely that John and Margaret
could be  siblings, as John was 19 years younger than Margaret.
However, a look at  the 1810 and 1820 censuses for York Co., before
and after John's birth,  show only two John Webbs in York Co., and
both are in Fairview Twp.
   The younger John was a son of Joseph Webb. He married Elizabeth
Grubb  and had a son John b. 1827, who later moved to Blair Co., Pa.,
and then  to Illinois.(9) Thus this John could not be the father of
John Webb of  Cambria.
   The other John Webb in Fairview Twp. was Joseph's brother, the man
who  was the prime nominee for Margaret Webb Eppley's father. The 1820
census  shows that this John did indeed have a male child in his
household under  the age of 10 years.(10) (John Webb "of Cambria"
would have been 7 at this  time). The formerly unknown wife of John
Webb of Fairview could now be  identified as Rose. Her real name was
likely Rosanna, since two of her  granddaughters were named after her.
   John Webb of Cambria Co. is first located on the tax list of
Conemaugh  Twp., Somerset Co., Pa. as a single freeman in 1836. He
appears for two  years and then vanishes, showing up on the 1840
census of Richland Twp., Cambria Co. with a wife and one female child.
He probably married his  first wife Frana in Conemaugh, as her
parents, George and Eve Thomas,  resided there.
   Since the Eppleys were said to have settled on the Thomas farm, and
John  Webb came of age in Conemaugh and married a Thomas girl, one
wonders if  other members of the Webb family may have migrated to that
area. Did 13-year-old John Webb come to Somerset with his sister and
brother-in-law after the death of his parents, or might the entire
Webb  family have relocated in Somerset Co.?
   John Webb the father, disappears from the tax lists of Fairview
Twp.,  York Co., in 1824, one year before the Eppleys removed to
Somerset. No  widow of John appears in Fairview.
   If John and Rose went to Somerset with the Eppleys, they may not
have  lived long afterward. Neither appear on the tax lists of
Somerset,  although it is possible that they owned no taxable property
(John is  taxed for only a single cow from 1817-1823 in Fairview).
John does not  appear on the census for Somerset, but he and his wife
may have been enumerated with another family.
   James Web, single man, appears on the tax list for Jenner Twp.,
Somerset  Co. in 1826, the same year that Jacob "Aply," husband of
Margaret, is  first listed. This is just after the James Webb, single
freeman from  Fairview Twp., York Co., and probable son of John Webb,
disappears from  the tax lists there. It would seem that James Webb
also lived in  Somerset, perhaps briefly (One James Webb reappears as
a distiller in  Fairview about five years later), and Margaret may
have named her son  James Eppley (b. 1827) in honor of her brother.
[Copyright 1998 by Kathie Weigel, Reseda, California ]

Some time after Jacob's death, Margaret moved to Westmoreland County,
where she died in 1876.  Margaret is buried near Latrobe.

1. Ligonier (PA) Echo, 9 March 1904, obituary of David Eppley.

2. U.S. Census 1850, Conemaugh Twp., Somerset Co.,  Pa., p. 66,
Margaret  Eppley.  U.S. Census 1860, Cook Twp., Westmoreland Co., Pa.,
p. 41,  Margaret Eply.

3. U.S. Census 1800, Newberry Twp., York Co., Pa., p. 218, Joseph
Webb,  (2 females under 10); and John Webb Jr., (1 female under 10).
U.S.  Census 1810, Fairview Twp., York Co., Pa., p. 1076, Joseph Webb,
(3  females 10-16); p. 1078, John Webb, (1 female 10-16).

4. York Co., Pa., Orphan's Court, M-413, petition on the estate of
John  Webb, 1819.

5. Information provided by Alice Getman, South Haven, Michigan, a
descendant of Joseph and Mary (Harris) Webb, 1994.

6. Fairview Twp., York Co., Pa., tax assessments, 1803-1834.

7. Johnstown (PA) Tribune, 23 August 1915, Eppleys Hold Annual
Reunion.

8. Betty Mulhollen, Births Marriages and Death Certificates, Cambria
Co., Pa., 1850-1855, transcribed October 1972, published by the
author,  p. 24.

9. Information provided by Alice Getman, 1994.

10. U.S. Census 1820, Fairview Twp., York Co., Pa., p. 74, John Webb
Sr.

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