FIRST Burial in Webb Chapel Cemetery - Dallas, TX
N 32° 55.077 W 096° 52.406
14S E 698857 N 3644196
A Texas Historical Marker near the front of Webb Chapel Cemetery indicates that the early churchyard here became a cemetery with the burial of Alice E. Webb in 1847.
Waymark Code: WMPE60
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/16/2015
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Alice's headstone is obviously a replacement marker of some kind, either for a weathered/damaged headstone, or for an old fieldstone, given the presence of contemporary headstones from the 1870s. Its inscription is simple:
Alice E. Webb
July 8, 1839
Jan. 27, 1847
The Texas Historical Marker provides some background:
Isaac B. (1802-1880) and Mary H. (1816-1887) Webb and their family came to this area of the Peters Colony in 1844. Within a year, the couple led in the formation of a Methodist society, the first church organized in Dallas County. A log structure, known as Webb Chapel, that also served as the first school of this growing settlement, was built in 1846. The churchyard became a cemetery when the Webbs' seven-year-old daughter, Alice, fell ill and died in 1847. The Webb family and many other North Texas pioneers and their descendants are buried at this site that today is administered by the Webb Chapel Cemetery Association.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 01/30/1847
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