Life History

Notes

• In their marriage record Rachel's husband is named Jiles.
  
  Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850
  Jiles Webb
  Spouse Name Rachel Horton
  Marriage 10 May 1807 Patrick County, Virginia
  
  Another record spells his name as Giles, the conventional way to spell the name.
  
  Family Data Collection - Individual Records
  Rachel Horton
  Spouse Giles Webb
  Parents (Mother) Anna
  Birth 1785 Surry County, NC
  Marriage 15 May 1807 Patrick County, VA
  Death 1870  Raleigh County, WV [Was VA until 1863]
  
  In 1850 and 1860 Giles and Rachel were living in Raleigh County, Virginia.  This census record reports that Rachel was born in Virginia, while the family data collection above said it was Surry, North Carolina, where her family lived and her parents were married.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Raleigh County, Virginia, 30 August, District 59, page Hse/Fam #268
  Giles Weeb [Webb] 60 M Farmer b North Carolina
  Racheal [sic] Weeb 69 F b Virginia
  
  1860 Federal Census, Raleigh County, Virginia, 18 July, Peach Tree, PO Coal River Marshes, page 6, Hse/Fam #48
  Giles Webb 65 M Laborer $0 Real Estate $50 Personal born VA Cannot read or write [b abt 1790]
  Rachel Webb 75 F born VA Cannot read or write [b abt 1785]
  Andrew Webb 45 M Laborer born VA Cannot read or write [b abt 1815]
  
  During the Civil War, in 1863, Raleigh County was among the western Virginia counties that were annexed by the United States as West Virginia.  West Virginia was the only state to secede from a Confederate State, and one of only two new states admitted to the United States during the Civil War, the other being Nevada.
  
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  Records in the same name seem to refer to an ancestor, report birth in 1613, residence in James City County, Virginia, and death in 1692 in Richmond.
  
  Family Data Collection - Deaths
  Giles Webb
  Death 1692 Richmond, VA (independent city) USA
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  A record of death in the name of James Webb appeared to represent him, but this James Webb matches a Find a Grave set of records matching the husband of a Sarah Rachel Goad.  They were in Carroll County, Virginia, which is just west of Patrick County, Virginia, and just north of Surry County, North Carolina.  So this is likely part of the same Webb family.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Carroll County, Virginia, Mortality Schedule, Laurel Fork Township, p 1, Line 14, Fam #300
  Webb, James A  88 M W  Married Farmer [Estimated birth year abt 1782] born Virginia  Death May 1870 of Dropsy
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  Another short story statement relates our Giles Webb to Carroll County, reporting that he sold land there and moved with other Webb family members to Indiana then finally settled in Drews Creek, where he is reported to have died.  The following story was posted on a genealogy on Ancestry.com, but no source was given and the genealogist is anonymous.  The information correlates with our 1850 and 1860 census records of Giles and his wife Rachel Horton being in Raleigh County, Virginia, which in 1863 became part of the new state of West Virginia..
  
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  In the 1830s Giles Webb and other members of his family sold out in Carroll County, Virginia and moved to Indiana.  They settled about thirty miles from Indianapolis where they lived for about three years, but fever and chills were so bad they removed to Highland County, Ohio, where they lived for about one year; then moved again to a point on the Kanawha River near Malden.  After living there for a while they moved to Big Coal River, and moved again in 1848/50 to Drews Creek in Raleigh County.  They both died in the 1860s.  There is record of nine children.
  --  Posted on an anonymous genealogy in Ancestry.com; no source given for the information
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  I saw you posted your info to worldconnect a couple days ago - just a brief thank you.
  
  I descend from Sarah Webb b. ca. 1812 who married William Kirk.  She fits into the 1820 census listing of Giles household.  Someone related oral tradition that she was born in Giles County, which might refer instead to her father.  Anyway I doubt I will find any other evidence, but she clearly was married to William as his second wife in the vicinity of Coal River between 1830 and 1832.
  
  I went through all the other Sarah Webbs from Giles County vicinity and they each married other men.
  
  I also read the story about travel to Indiana - incredible if true - but it seems strange to move back with land more available to the west.  In earlier times some settlers moved back east due to the Indian threat.  I have a few other ancestors (David King Perdue, Samson Robinette, etc) that moved about a lot as Giles Webb did.
  --  Curt Milton, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 31 December 2016
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Sources

• 1. 1850 Federal Census, Raleigh County, Virginia
  • 30 August, District 59, page Hse/Fam #268
• 2. 1860 Federal Census, Raleigh County, Virginia
  • 18 July, Peach Tree, PO Coal River Marshes, page 6, Hse/Fam #48
• 3. Ancestry Stories
• 4. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850
• 5. Family Data Collection - Individual Records
• 6. Curt Milton
• 7. 1880 Federal Census, Kanawha County, West Virginia
  • 11 June, Cabin Creek District, District 48, page 28, Hse/Fam #238
• 8. Ancestry Trees