Charles Young Webb
Full name : Charles Young
Webb
Alternate spellings, aliases : Charles G. Webb, Charles Y. Webb, Y. Charles
Webb
Parents :
Father : Samuel Webb
Mother : Polly Crawford
note :
Date of Birth : Saturday, 8 May
1819
Place of Birth : Bellmont, Franklin County, New York
Notes :
Spouse1 :
Name : Laura Smith
Date of Marriage :
Place of Marriage :
Died :
Notes :
Spouse2 : (plural)
Name : Margaret Allen
Date of Marriage :
Place of Marriage :
Died :
Notes :
Spouse3 : (plural)
Name : Adeline Freeman
Date of Marriage :
Place of Marriage :
Died :
Notes :
Date of Death :
Place of Death :
Burial Information :
Notes :
Religion : Probably baptized as a Congregationalist or a Freewill Baptist. Although likely raised as a protestant
Christian, he first heard word of the Mormon movement in 1843, and apparently
was attracted to it by what he heard and saw after traveling to Ohio to hear the
Prophets. He was ordained (Seventy in
the 27th Quorum) in June 1845 after moving with his wife and child to Nauvoo, Illinois. He moved west with the group until it reached
Utah.
Military Service : Captain Jefferson Hunt’s Company (A),
Mormon Battalion, Iowa Volunteers. The
Battalion was recruited and enlisted by President Brigham Young of the Latter
Day Saints, and Captain James Allen of the First
Regiment United States Dragoons in late June & early July 1846 at Council Bluffs, Iowa. The entire company, including Charles, was
composed of members of the Church of Latter Day Saints, who enlisted for a term of one
year in the War with Mexico. They left Council Bluffs,
20 July 1846 and marched to Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas,
arriving on 1 August 1846, where they were issued supplies and equipment. They left there on 12 August and reached Sante Fe, New Mexico on 9 October after crossing
hundreds of miles of desert in a miserable but disciplined fashion. They finally reached San Diego, California
on 29 January 1847. While in California the Battalion saw little service except
garrison duty and Webb’s company was stationed at Los Angeles.
He was discharged 16 July 1847 at Fort
Moore, Los Angeles, California.
At the time of his discharge, he volunteered and was assigned as one of Kearney’s Escorts to accompany Fremont
back to Washington, DC for ‘Court Martial’ proceedings. The thirteen man escort was to accompany the
party on horseback, as far as Fort
Leavenworth, where they
would be discharged and paid for the extra duty. They reached Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
on 24 August 1847 and were discharged, when Charles received $75 in severance
pay and $8.60 in addition to standard pay and clothing allowance received for
the previous year’s service. After
having to give up his horse to the government, he walked home 200 miles; he
marched in his term of service a total of nearly 4000 miles. As testament to his hard service, upon his
return home a compatriot, Matthew Caldwell described his appearance by writing,
“Webb... had the raggedest (sic) pants that I had ever
seen.”
He applied for a pension on 19 December 1876 (ic260939/48047), and made a claim
for his Mexican War service on 18 February 1887 in Utah, (s6793). He is the son of Samuel & Polly Webb of Bellmont, New York and the grandson of Ebenezer Webb,
Jr., a Patriot of the Revolutionary War.
His great-uncle was Sergeant Christopher Webb.
Occupation(s) : Farmer
Location of Residences, record of movement, migration, etc.
Property :
There was only one Charles Webb in Iowa
in 1850 -
1850 Federal Census. District 21, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
1142/1142, Charles Webb, 30, Male,
White, farmer, na, Kentucky
1142/1142, Margaret Webb, 23,
Female, White, na, na, New Jersey
1142/1142, Willis Webb, 6, Male,
White, na, na, Iowa
1142/1142, Jeanette Webb, 2,
Female, White, na, na, Iowa
1142/1142, Lydia Webb, 1,
Female, White. na, na, Iowa
He moved within the year to Utah...
1850 Federal
Census. ..., Iron County, Utah
Territory (12 May 1851)
81/81, Charles Y. Webb, 32, Male,
White, Farmer, 700, New York
81/81, Margaret Webb, 26, Female,
White, na, na, New York
81/81, Willis Webb, 8, Male,
White, na, na, New York, in
school
81/81, Jennette Webb, 5, Female, White, na, na, Iowa, in school
Family : (all children bear surname Webb)
Son : Willis
Date of Birth : 1842/43
Place of Birth : New York
Married :
Died :
Notes : mother – Laura Smith
Daughter : Jeanette
Date of Birth : 24 October 1845
Place of Birth : Iowa
Married :
Died : 1865
Notes : mother – Margaret Allen
Daughter :
Lydia
Date of Birth : 1847 (1849)
Place of Birth
: Iowa
Married :
Died :
1848 ‘on the trail’ (1850)
Notes :
mother – Margaret Allen. She is
enumerated in the 1850 Iowa enumeration, but
not in 1851 Utah
enumeration, so she probably was born in 1849, died in 1850 (see census extract
above).
Son :
Charles Young, Jr.
Date of Birth : 1851
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1939
Notes :
mother – Margaret Allen
Son :
James Dickerson
Date of Birth : 1853
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1927
Notes :
mother – Margaret Allen
Son :
Joseph
Date of Birth : 1855
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1873
Notes :
mother – Margaret Allen
Son :
John Freeman
Date of Birth : 1853
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1914
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Daughter :
Nancy Beal
Date of Birth : 1855
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1890
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Daughter :
Adeline
Date of Birth : 1857
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1924
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Son :
Abraham Owen Smoot
Date of Birth : 1859
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1920
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Son :
Charles Tault
Date of Birth : 1861
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1884
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Son :
Christopher Columbus
Date of Birth : 1862
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1914
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Son :
Hyrum Horton
Date of Birth : 1865
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1919
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Son : George Washington
Date of Birth : 1866
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1926
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Son :
Marvin (twin)
Date of Birth : 1871
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1871 ‘at birth’
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Son : Melvin (twin)
Date of Birth : 1871
Place of Birth
:
Married :
Died :
1925
Notes :
mother – Adeline Freeman
Comments, sources, various additional :
Vinton, John Adams. The Giles Memorial – Genealogical Memoirs of
the Families Bearing the Names Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison,
Leonard, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Ribinson, Sampson, and Webb; also Genealogical Sketches of
the Pool, Very, Carr and other Families with a history of Pemaquid,
ancient and modern; some account of early settlements in Maine; and some
details of Indian warfare. Printed for the author, by Henry W. Dutton & Son, Washington Street, Boston. 1864. pp 496 – 532.
Pension File of (brothers) Christopher Webb and Ebenezer Webb (abstracts) :
M804 Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Files 1800 – 1900 Webb, Abner – Webb, Isacc.
Roll2514. National Archives
and Records Administration. Washington,
DC. Viewed 14
July 2001. (both pension files are on the same
roll)
Massachusetts
Vital Records : Huntington;
Vital Records : 1764-1805, Town Records 1790-1795 (microfilm)
Family Record of
Ebenezer Webb... in family bile of (his son) Samuel Webb and in family bible of
(his son) Oliver Webb.
New York
Adjutant General's Office Index of Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of the War
of 1812. Albany:
- , 1860. Found on Ancestry.com –
www.ancestry.com
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