The town that was to become Webberville (sometimes incorrectly called ‘Webbersville’) was settled in 1837 by Ephraim Meech.
In 1840 a post office began operating under the name ‘Phelpstown’ named after townsman David Phelps. In 1850, the village was re-named LeRoy, after one of two things: either the town of LeRoy, New York, or Michigan’s first attorney general, Daniel LeRoy.
In 1862, LeRoy shut down its post office; five years later, the entire village was moved about a mile east and settled at the location we know as Webberville today. For a while, the area went under two names: ‘LeRoy’ and ‘Webberville Post Office’…..the name ‘LeRoy’ was dropped by 1914.
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There was a good number of families named Webber that settled there, and the town was again re-named after one of them: postmaster Hubert Webber, in 1867. Why? Because there was already a village in Michigan named Leroy…actually, there were a few of them: Calhoun County (1837, Genessee County (1837-1860), Lenawee County (1837), and Osceola County (1871)…