1.  Daniel P. Forney, of Jacksonville, Alabama.

2.  Joseph B. Forney married Mary Whitaker, of Alabama.

3.  William H. Forney married Eliza Woodward, of Alabama.

4.  Barbara Ann Forney married P. Rowan, Esq., of Alabama.

5.  Gen. John H. Forney married Septima Rutledge, grand-daughter of Edward Rutledge, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

6.  Emma E. Forney married 1st, Col.  Rice, 2nd, Rev. Thomas A. Morris.

7.  Col.  George H. Forney, (killed at Spotsylvania Court House, Va.)

8.  Catharine Amelia Forney, married J.M.  Wylie, Esq., of Alabama.

9.  Mariah Louisa Forney, ("Ida”) married R.D.  Williams, Esq., of Alabama.

The sons of Jacob Forney won military distinction and renown in the late Confederate war.  Our prescribed limits forbid a more extended notice of their gallant services.  Their chivalric courage and “deeds of noble daring” will justly claim the careful study of some future historian.

4. Eliza Forney married 1st, Henry Y. Webb, Esq., of Granville county, N.C.  He was educated at the University of North Carolina, was a member of the Legislature in 1817; appointed by President Monroe, Territorial Judge of Alabama; elected to the same position by the State Convention of 1819, and died in September, 1823.

Eliza Forney, by first marriage with Henry Y. Webb, Esq., had five children.

1.  Frances Ann Webb married Col.  John R. Hampton formerly of Charlotte, N.C., now a worthy and highly respected citizen of Bradley county, Ark.  His wife Frances, died in 1842, leaving three children, of whom only one, (Susan) widow of Dr. Greene Newton, at present survives.

2.  William P. Webb, Esq., married Martha Bell, of Alabama.  His children are: 

1.  James E. Webb, of Hale county, Alabama, married Zemma Creswell.

2.  Frances E. Webb married Robert Crawford, of St. Louis, Mo.

3.  Judge William H. Webb married “Donna Louise Abrigo,” of Monterey, Mexico.

4.  Rev. Frank Bell Webb, pastor of the Presbyterian church, at Union Springs, Ala.

5.  Wert Webb, commission merchant of St. Louis, Mo., and two daughters, now in their minority.

3.  Col.  James D. Webb, of the 51st Alabama Regiment, married Jessie Walton.  He was frequently a member of the Legislature of Alabama, and was highly esteemed for his purity of character.  He died of wounds received in battle, July 3rd, 1863, near Winchester, Tenn., where he is buried.  He left a widow and six children.

4.  Susan E. Webb died in 1832, at the age of twelve years.

5.  Dr. Henry Y. Webb, married Elizabeth S. Alexander, a great-grand daughter of Abraham Alexander, Chairman of the Mecklenburg Convention of the 20th of May, 1775.  Most of the Alexanders in the United States have descended from seven brothers who fled from Scotland to the North of Ireland on account of civil and religious persecutions.  From 1725 to 1740, many of their descendants emigrated to America, one of whom was William Alexander, who inherited an estate and earldom in Scotland, and became Lord Stirling, a distinguished General in the Revolutionary war.  After a short sojourn in Pennsylvania, many of the Alexander families and their descendants emigrated south, and formed numerous settlements in Mecklenburg and adjoining counties.