Mabelle Lorena Webb

Full name : Mabelle Lorena Webb
Alternate spellings, aliases : Mabel Webb, Mabel Hester

Parents :
Father : Loren Webb
Mother : Francis Hannah Holmes
Notes : after the death of their mother (1877) and father (1880), Loren's daughters stayed permanently with Loren's first cousin, Charles Herrick, in Bronson Township, Huron County, Ohio.  Charles was the son of Ephrahim Herrick and Loren's aunt Electa Webb, who married in Huron County in 1825.  Electa is sister to Loren's father, Oliver.

Date of Birth : 27 November 1867
Place of Birth : Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut

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Name : Finlay Hester
Date of Marriage : 22 November 1892
Place of Marriage : Danbury, Connecticut
Died : 15 July 1936
notes : Finlay Hester (born 1 July 1857), son of Martin M. Hester, whose father came to Huron Co. in 1827.

Date of Death : 26 December 1940
Place of Death, and or Burial : Huron County, Ohio
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Military Service : none
Pension data : Loren Webb, Mabel’s father, applied for an Invalid's Pension on 15 May 1879 (Appl # 286543, Cert # 856585) and was rejected for failure to complete the application process.  Mabel and her sister successfully applied for Minor's Pensions, 3 February 1888 (Appl # 367065, Cert # 367284), filed in Connecticut and Ohio after his death. Loren's affidavit from the pension file is the single document which expresses most clearly Loren’s early life and tragic experiences in the war (available as PDF).

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Son : Webb Hester
Date of Birth : 15 October 1893
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Died : 5 October 1963
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Son : Loren Hester
Date of Birth : 9 July 1896
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Died : 18 December 1978
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Comments, sources, various additional :

Harvey Hayes Webb family bible transcript, typed transcript, drafted in the 1950's; courtesy Hazel Skelly Webb

Diary of Captain Loren Webb, 1861 - 1863, Firelands Historical Society, 1995. Transcribed by Matthew L. Burr. 

Written communication with Vinton Phillips and David L. Hester, New London, Huron County, Ohio, January 2001- ongoing.  Images of Webb gravestones courtesy of Elizabeth and Vinton Philips.

Service record of Captain Loren Webb, Company F, 9th Reg't Illinois Infantry, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Compiled 1891, viewed December 2000

Service record of Captain Loren Webb, Company D, 11th Reg't Minnesota Infantry, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Compiled 1891-94, viewed December 2000.

Pension File of Loren Webb, Mabel Webb, Clara Webb, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.

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