Biography of Wade Webb, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 14 Nov 2008
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Transcribed by Lisa Hamilton from 
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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Wade Webb, a farmer by occupation, owes his nativity to the State of North
Carolina, his birth occurring in Edgecombe County in 1841. John and Esther Webb,
his parents, were natives of the same State. The ancestors came from England
before the Revolutionary War, settling near Jones River in Virginia. Wade Webb
passed his youthful days in the schools of North Carolina, and upon coming to
St. Francis County, Ark., in 1853, began farming. He now owns 200 acres, with
120 under a successful state of cultivation. He was married in July, 1866, to
Matilda V., daughter of Absalom and Matilda Barker, and to their union seven
children were given, five living: John Lee, Remington P., Willie W., James R.
and Filbert. Mr. Webb enlisted during the war in the Confederate army, in
Company B of the Fifth Arkansas Regiment, serving until the final surrender. He
participated in the battles of Murfreesboro, Jonesboro, Stone River, Perryville,
Missionary Ridge and Cumberland Gap. At the battle of Murfreesboro he received a
severe wound. Mr. Webb is an enterprising, energetic farmer and citizen, and
contributes liberally to those movements which betoken the good or growth of the
county.