Biography of Andrew Webb, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 183

Andrew Webb, an enterprising tiller of the soil, of Greene County, Ark., and
postmaster of Bethel, was born in the State of Tennessee, in 1824, and is the fourth
of nine children born to James and Monnima (Crisp) Webb, who were natives of North
and South Carolina, respectively. The father followed farming on an extensive scale,
and was a soldier in the War of 1812, being with Jackson at the battle of New
Orleans. He died in Tennessee, where he had made his home for many years, in 1866, at
the age of seventy-six years, followed by his wife in 1867. Andrew Webb resided on a
farm in Tennessee, and when twenty-one years of age purchased a farm, and began doing
for himself. He was married about this time to Miss Winnie C. Coburn. a native of
Alabama, and remained in the State of Tennessee engaged in improving his farm. until
1858, when he sold out and came to Greene County, Ark., where he bought a tract of
eighty acres of wild land. He cleared about forty acres of this farm, set out
orchards, and put his property under fence, but some three years later traded it for
a tract containing 160 acres, on which is now situated the station of Bethel. Here he
opened up about sixty acres, erected good buildings, set out orchards, etc., and when
the railroad was established he sold a considerable amount of his property for
business purposes. In 1883 he received a commission as first postmaster of Bethel,
and has held this office up to the present time. His wife, who died in October, 1887,
bore him five children: Lucinda E., wife of W. A. J. Wood; James W., John William,
who died at the age of nineteen years; Pamelis E., wife of W. O. Lane, and Sarah
Ella, who died at the age of six years. May 3, 1889, he was married to Mrs. Mary C.
Yepp, a native of Georgia. James W. Webb, the only living son of Andrew Webb, is at
present thirty-seven years of age, and is tilling the soil on a portion of his
father's farm, [p.183] and on 120 acres which he had purchased. Mr. Webb has one of
the best farms in his section, about sixty acres being under cultivation and fence.
He takes considerable interest in politics, and is a Democrat, having been elected on
that ticket, in 1880, to the office of justice of the peace, which position he has
since held, with the exception of two years. He was married in 1869 to Miss Mary R.
Wood, a native of Mississippi, and a daughter of James R. Wood, who came to Arkansas
in 1859, being one of the early settlers of Greene County. To them have been born
five children: Calador W. J., Sarah Ella, James A., who died at the age of four years
and one month, and Mary Lelor. One child died in infancy, unnamed. Mr. Webb has a
pleasant home in Bethel, his lot consisting of two acres. He has always been a patron
of education, and all worthy public enterprises, and his business as justice of the
peace is quite extensive. He has served as school director for six years.