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http://files.usgwarchives.org/sc/anderson/cemeteries/a140.txt
LEBANON BAPTIST CHURCH -- Anderson County, SC
According to the minutes of the Saluda Association, Lebanon Church was constituted in 1815.
Its first location was three miles east from Pendleton, on
the Anderson Road.
It united with the Saluda Association in 1816.
The only records of the Church's new extant prior to the year 1880 begins with March 6, 1824, and closes with June 7, 1834.
On April the 3rd, 1824, an advisory council was called in, consisting of Sanford Vandiver, James Morehead and Micajah Webb, to look over a settlement between A. Patterson and Jesse Lewis.
Instead of brother going to law with brother, which is positively forbidden in the scripture, this was their method of settling all their difficulties.
***Note: Micajah Webb was less than thirty years old here -- somewhere around 28. Son Robert B. Webb of later Attala Co., MS, was still an infant. My mothers grandfather, John B. Webb of later Attala Co., MS, and Yell County, AR, was yet to be born.
This reference shows the confidence and respect that Micajah Webb received. Sanford Vandiver was the pastor that married Micajah Webb and Harriet Benson. His Bible is on display in the historical room of the First Baptist Church at Anderson.
Micajah's father was Charles Webb of Deep Creek.
Out on the old John Gresham place on Deep Creek and the Seneca River, brothers Elijah Webb and Elisha Webb, twins, were teenagers of 16 years of age.
Baby brother Chnarles Baldwin Webb was just 12.
These were good times for the family. Micjah went into partnership with his wife's brother, John P. Benson, in the Benson House, one of the first -- some say THE first -- hotel in Anderson, S.C. Micajah or Micah Webb was appointed the first postmaster of Anderson.
Micajah's father-in-law was the long-serving state senator from Greenville Distict -- Major Thomas Benson -- a patriot of the American Revolution.
Benson's father-in-law was John Prince, for whom Ft. Prince was named near Spartanburg. John Prince served on the first state legislature of South Carolina in 1776.
Micajah Webb's grandparents on his deceased mother's side were Thomas Stribling and Nancy Ann Kincheloe. They moved with the Webbs from the Union District to the Pendleton area before Anderson was plotted as a town. Thomas Stribling had also been a patriot in the war. His mother was of the notable Taliaffero line of Virginia.
When the first lots for the new town of Anderson were sold, Micajah Webb bought several of them. The First Baptist Church of Anderson stands on one of them.
Micajah Webb's older brother Edmund Webb became the town's doctor and also served as the mayor.
Brother Clayton Webb ventured just acorss the nearby Georgia line to Hartwell and became a judge.
Brother William Webb married the daughter of patriot Aaron Guyton and prospered as a farmer.
Elijah Webb would excel and become the Clerk of the Court for 40 years.
Elisha would stay with farming, but like his brothers would serve in a Baptist church as a deacon.
Brother-in-law Henry Terry, Jr., would try to coax the wearing out soil to produce another crop.
Brother Warren Robinson Webb went into business and prospered way down in Charleston.
Brother-in-law, Major James G. Clark, son of patriot Matthew Clark, pressed the young men of the river farms to get an education and develop their minds. He noted that many families were moving westward. There was talk of forcibly removing the Indians from their lands to Oklahoma. There was talk of electing Andrew Jackson, the Indian fighter, as president. Letters came back from out west about the fertile soil and the need for wokers, and builders of schools and churches. The future was in the west.
Young Charles Baldwin Webb would stay put on the old family place after the death of his father in 1832. But he would be cut down in the prime of life by pneumonia, and a young wife with young children would do the best she could.
It was about 1832 that Micajah Webb and family headed west. Micajah's missionary-minded church at Anderson had a great revival that resulted in many conversions and baptisms. The Saluda Association had ostracized and shunned Pastor Cooper Bennett of Shockley Ferry for emphasizing missions and evangelism. Now they embraced it, except for those who became known as Hardshell or Primitive Baptists.
J.P. Benson would buy out Micajah's part of the Benson House in 1832. John would hope to do as well as his brother, Enoch Berry Benson.
So... with new baby John and a brood of children, Micajah and Harriet Webb struck out to the frontier -- first in Alabama, where they would stay until after 1840.
The Clarks had gone even further -- to Attala County, Ms, to a little community called Burkettsville out from Kosciusko.
This was part of the story for many people in America in the first half of the 1800s.
It's important for people to know the hopes and dreams, the good and the bad of their family histories. They left tracks behind for us to follow ... just like the beginning of this post. You will leave tracks behind too. I hope they will be good ones. You make the past now. The past lasts forever.
To find out more about what happened to these families, check my other posts.
Bobby Lamb
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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