JOHN FERDINAND WEBBER (1794-1884)
Born in Vermont. Also known as "Juan Fernando." During the War of 1812, he was in Captain S. Dickinson's Company, 31st U.S. Infantry from May 23, 1813, to May 31, 1814. Fought at the Battle of Shadage Woods.
After the war, he eventually ended up at Austin's colony in Texas in 1824. He married a slave, whom he freed and had eight children with her. He did not fight in the Texas Revolution.
Later, he was the first settler in Webber's Prairie in Travis County, Texas, but in the 1840s, with more settlers moving into the area from the South, he found that they did not approve of his mixed marriage and he moved his family in 1853 to land near Hidalgo, Texas, on the Rio Grande River where he established Webber's Ranch.
Webber was a staunch Unionist and felt forced to move to Mexico during the Civil War, but returned in 1865. He is buried in Webber cemetery in Hildalgi, Texas.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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