As the number of DNA samples of Southern U.S. Webb lines grow, the chance that our line might be benefited by a submission of DNA to those samples is also growing.  The Webb Surname DNA Project is "agressively" recruiting samples from Southern Webb lines and several of the names they are particularly interested in occur in our lines (e.g., 1750-1850 Narcissa, Lucinda, Levi).  Rick Reed has been especially interested and is helping to organize a submission,. We have not been able to find out what line Hiram came from after more than 50 years of our cousins searching, but with new technology like this we may be able to associate our line much more closely with other Webb lines in North Carolina, and even more as the number of submissions increase.  Please email Dave and Rick if you are interested in this project!!! (Posted June 23, 2003)  Check out the latest updates below!!!

UPDATE (July 3, 2003):  A number of Webb descendants have expressed interest in the DNA test and Rick Reed has agreed to start us off with $20.  I'll match that $20 and Denise Gregory is donating $20!  Lynn Campbell and Joe Brannen have also agreed to put in $20 each, so we're now up to $100!  I'd also like to say thanks to Robyn Webb and Tracy Weatherby for agreeing to help.  Please email me if you are willing to donate a specific amount and I'll add it to the total (we need about $169).  Thanks again! 

UPDATE (Feb. 7, 2004):  I have just sent off for the 25 marker DNA test kit and we will start moving forward with the testing as soon as it arrives.  I don't know the timeline for getting results, but hopefully it will move quickly.  I'll keep everyone posted as soon as I hear anything new.

UPDATE (Feb. 29, 2004):  We have received word that the DNA sample was received by the testing company and that the normal wait for a 25 marker test is 5 weeks.  If anything else comes in before then, I'll be sure to update it here.  I'll start trying to collect some money for this current test, so if you have said that you'd be willing to help out, please email me about this now.  Also, I'd still be interested in getting a sample of another one of our Webb lines to verify the accuracy of the test--plus it might ensure 100% that some of our biggest branches are indeed related as we think they are (e.g., William Jefferson Webb was in fact a brother to John G. or Jacob K. Webb); I'd also be willing to put in a little to help pay for this second test, but first I'd like to collect some to help pay for the current test (which is from William Jefferson Webb's line). 

UPDATE (May 22, 2004):   Our first connection through the DNA project!!  Karen Webb Hachman's ancestor, Joseph Webb, is also from Lincoln County, Tennessee, and after 12 of her 25 markers have come in, we have a direct match.  We are still waiting on the other half of their sample to be returned, but it looks like in their Joseph (born about 1808), we have found either a much younger brother, a nephew, or a close cousin.  We don't have any similar names yet, but it seems as i

There are a few other Webb lines that were and are still located near our Webb family in Lamar, Marion, Itawamba, and Lee counties.  I hope that advances in DNA testing might be able to prove that we are connected to some of these, but as far as I know, they haven't been tested yet.  If anyone from these lines is interested, I would very much encourage them to test a male Webb in their family to see if a connection can be made.  The other families that I think might possibly (and I would emphasize "possibly" since there is no information that ties them in to ours currently) be related to ours are:

Wylie Pickney Webb (ca.1850-after 1910; buried in Greenbrier Cemetery (?), Monroe County, Mississippi)
     I thought Wylie Pickney Webb was the son of our Jacob K. Webb for quite some time, since Jacob had a son named Wiley D. Webb who was born in 1849 in MS.  But even though we don't have anything else for our Wiley Webb, I no longer consider Wylie Pickney to be part of our branch (though this would be a great line to test).  Wylie had a number of children who lived around Amory, and he was married to Nancy P. Barnes.

Joseph T. (or Henry) Webb (1822 AL - 1879; buried in Lamar County, Alabama)
     Josseph was right next to our Webb and Evans family in Lamar County, Alabama.  I first see him there in 1857, but he is reported elsewhere to be the son of a Jacob Webb.  I would really love to get a test for his family since his brothers Jacob and Thadeus (not proven by me, but listed as such elsewhere) might be more lines of kin, and certainly were living very close to ours. 

George Washington Webb (1819 TN - 1882; Mt. Pleasant Cemetery)
     George was in Lincoln County, TN apparently and came on down to Itawamba County, MS, making him a very good candidate to test.  Descendants have even postulated that he could be a brother to Hiram Webb.  His sons were Jonn Richard, Berry Sawyer, William S., and Lafayette Webb.  His daughters were Mary E., Rosanna, Martha J., Sophronia G., Sarah M., and Nancy Matilda Webb.

William Michael Webb (1826-1881; buried in Webb Cemetery, Marion County, Alabama)
     William Michael Webb was in the 1860 and 1870 Marion County, Alabama censuses, and has a number of descendants still around.  His sons were Benjamin H., Thomas Vincent, Joseph C., Charles Anderson, Willis Andrew, and William Henry Webb, while his daughters were Mary Melindie, Martha J., Anna Erilisa, and Rosa L. Webb.  I think this would be a great one to DNA test also.

William Webb (1793-after 1850; died in Alabama)
     This William Webb family is the one that was in Lamar County (then a different county though) in 1850, and who had the sons Joseph, Berry, Henry, and James, and daughters Ester, Nancy, and Mary.  Henry was buried in Itawamba County in the Keys Cemetery.  I don't know much about them, but the name Berry is interesting to me.

Silas S. Webb (1817 TN - 1898; died in Mississippi, buried in Weeks Cemetery)
     Silas and his family were in Lamar County (then Marion) in 1850 on the census.  He had sons John, Elisha, Charley M., William Franklin, Samuel, and Henry S.  He had daughters Mary M., Sarah Jane, Bettie, and Martha Ann.  I don't know much about the family.

S.L. Webb (abt 1875 Tuscaloosa, AL - 1945; died in Guntown, Lee County, Mississippi)
     S.L. Webb is the ancestor of a number of locals Webbs in Lee County.  I don't know about his ancestry, but he had boys J.A., Noel, Robert, Douglas, and G. Mack Webb.

William Douglas Webb (1813-1896; buried Hamilton, Alabama)
     I think this is less likely, but stranger things have happened.  William was said to have run away as a young teen and worked on ships on the East Coast.  As a young man, he worked on a ship that went in the Gulf of Mexico. He developed scurvy and  was put ashore in Alabama.  He married and settled in Marion County, Alabama.