JOHN FERDINAND WEBBER ARCHIVE
A descendant-led educational narrative archive exploring early Texas and borderlands history.
The Story My Family Carried:
John and Silvia Webber
✦ A Descendant’s Poem in History ✦
I did not choose this story.
It arrived in my hands—
fragile, insistent—
and asked to be spoken.
The town on the map says Webberville.
But that word is not the whole story.
It is only a chapter—
a beginning that was never an ending.
Law and Love: Defiance Across Three Rivers
A continuous online historical work.
This ongoing online non-downloadable historical narrative examines the life of John Ferdinand Webber across three geographic and legal landscapes: the Mississippi, the Colorado, and the Rio Grande.
The work traces moral choice, exile, frontier resistance, and borderlands survival within documented historical context.
Love & Resistance: The Webber Journey
A chronological exploration of law, migration, exile, and sanctuary across three rivers.
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Vermont to the Mississippi
Origins, military service, and early migration south.
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1853–1892
The Rio Grande
Borderlands sanctuary, ferry operations, Civil War exile, and legacy.
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The Colorado Mexican Texas settlement, emancipation bond, and early Webberville
1839–1853
Expulsion & Transition
Community hostility and forced relocation.