Individual Details

According to a letter from his granddaughter, Augusta Ford Andrews, daughter of Augusta Ware Webb Ford. "Every year my mother's father Charles Henry Webb,Jr., M.D., went to visit his mother Polly Todd Ware, ( Mrs Charles Henry Webb, Sr.). In 1844 as per schedule, he took the trip leaving his wife who was expecting a child and the two youngest children at home. He left the two oldest girls in school in Lexington, Ky. On the way back there was an explosion on board the boat and a fire. Dr. Webb was seriously injured, and although gotten ashore he died before his wife could get there; also one of the daughters was drowned. The child of Charles Henry Webb, Jr who died by drowning after the explosion was the 10 year old daughter of Charles Henry Webb, Jr. and Cassandra Ford Webb. She was also named Cassandra Ford Webb. After the death of her husband, the new baby was then named Cassandra Ford Webb after her mother and dead sister. She lived with William Pitt Trimble and Cannie Ford Trimble until her death in 1924."

Birth	26 Nov 1834
Death	22 Oct 1844	Drowned

Father	Dr. Charles Henry Webb Jr.
Mother	Cassandra Ford (1807 - 1863)
Sibling	Mary Susan Webb (1827 - 1864)
Sibling	Frances Conn Webb (1829 - 1849)
Sibling	Dr. James Philip Webb (1832 - )
Sibling	Nancy Winnifred Webb (1833 - )
Sibling	Charles William Webb (1836 - 1861)
Sibling	Augusta Ware Webb (1840 - 1907)
Sibling	Charles H. Webb III (1843 - 1861)
Sibling	Cassandra Ford Webb (1845 - 1924)