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Annual Meeting Webb2002 Reunion HERITAGE Isaac B. Webb The Oldest Church Webb Chapel Cemetery A New Look Memorials Membership Annual Contributions GENEALOGY DESCENDANT DATABASE HOW TO CONTACT US HOME |
Isaac B. and Mary Webb were devout Methodists and established the first Methodist Church in what is now Dallas County, Texas, in or about 1844 and held the first meeting of the Church in the home of Isaac B. and Mary Webb near the present site of the Webb Chapel Cemetery. Nancy Jane Cochran, wife of William M. Cochran and sister of Mary Webb, along with Isaac B. and Mary Webb were the first three members of the Church. In the spring of 1846, Isaac B. Webb and other members of the Church decided to build a separate church building approximately 200 yards from the existing family home of Isaac B. and Mary Webb. The church building was formally named Webb's Chapel. A cemetery tract was laid out adjacent to the church building and was maintained as a separate cemetery tract since on or about the dedication of the church building in 1846. No exact description or deed was ever prepared, given, or recorded for either the church building or the cemetery tract. Allise Webb, a daughter of Isaac B. and Mary Webb died in January, 1847, and was the first person buried in the Webb Chapel Cemetery. On or about the 6th day of July 1876, Isaac B. and Mary Webb conveyed approximately one-half acre of land adjoining the then existing cemetery tract to William Caruth, William Harris, J. N. Douglas, D. R. McCullock, William P. Cochran and John S. Dickason, as Trustees, for the use and benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Said deed was filed for record February 26, 1881, with the County Clerk of Dallas County, Texas and recorded in the Official Records of Dallas County, Texas, in Volume 51, Pages 139-140 on March 3, 1881. Excerpted from "AFFIDAVIT OF FACTS CONCERNING THE WEBB CHAPEL CEMETERY AND THE LAND CLAIMED BY THE WEBB CHAPEL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION FOR CEMETERY PURPOSE" prepared and signed by Howard J. Cox. This affidavit was executed on April 23, 2001 and filed for record on April 24, 2001. It is recorded in Volume 80 pages 6503 through 6508 of the Deed Records of Dallas County, Texas. Used by permission of Howard J. Cox Great grandson of Isaac Webb and Mary Hughes Trustee, Webb Chapel Cemetery Association
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IN PETERS COLONY ORGANIZED IN CABIN OF I. B. WEBB MAY 1845 FIRST SERMON PREACHED MAR. 19, 1844 ROM. 1:16
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If you would like to discuss
the Webb Chapel Cemetery Association
or the people interred at Webb Chapel Cemetery and their descendants,
please E-Mail Jan Jones at:
jjbead@prodigy.net
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