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Fidelia Webb
Full name : Fidelia Webb
Alternate spellings, aliases : Fidelia Ruggles
Notes : Image of Fidelia in
the 1860’s.
Parents :
Father : David Webb
Mother : Lydia Parmele
Date of Birth : 25 September 1808
Place of Birth : Oneida County, New York
Spouse :
Name : Martin S. Ruggles
Date of Marriage : 16 September 1827
Place of Marriage : Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio
Died :
Notes :Service by Lebediah Morse, JP
Date of Death :
Place of Death :
Burial Information :
Notes :
Military Service : unknown
Occupation(s) : farmer
Location of Residences, record of movement,
migration, etc.
Property :
Condensed from the Firelands Pioneer…, Jan 1920,
pp. 2358 - 2363 :
Immigrated from near Riga, New York to the 'Firelands' area of Ohio, later
known as Huron County in 1821/1822, with his father and family. Originally
settled just across the Vermillion river west of the David Underhill
place.
In 1822 her father, David Webb, Sr. and her brother
Harvey purchased from the Executors of Jonas Cook two hundred acres approximately
three miles north-west of Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio in Ridgefield Township,
which formed the nucleus of the Webb Settlement. Harvey paid $250 dollars for one hundred acres on the north
side and David, Sr. was left with 109 acres. They both built log houses; Harvey’s burned in 1854.
1850 Federal Census - Ridgefield Township, Huron
County, Ohio; 12 August 1850
Last Name
First Name Age Sex
Occupation
Value
Birthplace In
School
Production of Agriculture, Ridgefield Township,
Huron County, Ohio; Summer/Fall 1850
Name of Owner : Martin L. Ruggles
Acres (Total – Improved and Unimproved) : 35 / 23
Cash Value of farm : $1800.00
Cash value of farming implements and machinery : $100.00
Horses : 1 Mules & Asses :
0 Milk Cows : 7 Working Oxen :
2
Other Cattle : 18
Sheep : 10 Swine : 5 Value of Livestock :
$409.00
Wheat - spring :
Oats :
Wool : 20 lbs.
Indian corn : 300 bushels Potatoes - Irish : 25 bushels Orchard Fruit : 25
bushels
Butter : 750 lbs.
Cheese : 100 lbs. Hay : 25 tons Grass seed : 2 bushels
Value of Home-made Manufacture : $74.00 Value of Animals Slaughtered : $47.00
Family :
Daughter : Edward
Date of Birth : 1828
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married : no
Died : 15 July 1832, Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio
Notes : Buried in Webb Cemetery; probably cholera victim
Son : Lester
Date of Birth: 1831
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married : no
Died : 16 October 1832, Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio
Notes : Buried in Webb Cemetery; probably cholera victim
Son : Chester L.
Date of Birth: 1833
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married :
Died :
Notes :
Son : Moses
Date of Birth: 1835
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married :
Died :
Notes : At age 30, enlisted 23 March 1865 and mustered in 1 April 1865 into
Company C, 197th Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers. He mustered out 31 July 1865 at Camp Bradford, Baltimore.
Son : Carlton
Date of Birth: 1838
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married :
Died :
Notes : Civil War veteran. Image of Carlton
Ruggles from the 1860’s.
Son : Comfort
Date of Birth: 1842
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married :
Died :
Notes : At age 20, enlisted and mustered in 23 November 1861 to Company K, 67th
Regiment Ohio Infantry and promoted to Corporal 18 January 1863 and wounded 10 May 1864 at Chester Station,
Virginia. He was again promoted,
to Sergeant, 27 March 1865, then transferred to Company E, 1 September 1865,
and was subsequently mustered out 7 December 1865 at City Point, Virginia.
Daughter : Emily
Date of Birth: 1843
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married :
Died :
Notes :
Daughter : Isabella
Date of Birth: 1847
Place of Birth : Webb Settlement, Ridgefield Township, Huron County, Ohio
Married :
Died :
Notes :
Huron County Marriage Record Abstracts.
Comments, sources, various additional :
Harvey Hayes Webb family bible transcript, typed
transcript, drafted in the 1950's; courtesy Hazel Skelly Webb
Webb, Loren. 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, Huron County, Ohio, January 2001- ongoing. Images
of Webb gravestones courtesy of Elizabeth and Vinton Philips.
Odd cemetery inscriptions
(search on Webb) : Dix
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