Joseph Wilburn Webb, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Joseph Wilburn Webb is principal of the school at Lula it Dc Soto Parish.  
He took charge of that school in 1921.  He was not yet of age, giving him 
probably the distinction of being the youngest principal of an eight-room 
school in the state. 

Mr. Webb was born at Vowells Mill, in Natchitoches Parish, January 23, 
1902, son of J. E. and Lulu (Matthews) Webb.  His mother died in 1914.  
She was through all her life an active member of the Baptist Church.  
J. E. Webb still lives at Vowells Mill and is a railroad team contractor 
and farmer.  He has been a member of the local school board and is a 
member of the Masonic Lodge at Provencal.  His second wife was Maud Forbis, 
of Fort Jessup.  There were ten children by the first marriage and two by 
the second.  The oldest son, C. H.. is teacher of mathematics in the 
Demonstration High School at Baton Rouge, and holds degrees from the 
Louisiana State Normal College and the B. A. degree from the Louisiana 
State University.  He was in the navy transport service during the World 
war.  Another son, Jesse, is in the second year of his law course in the 
Louisiana State University, and Jewell Webb, who finished his high school 
education at Pelican, Louisiana, is now located at Monroe.

Joseph Wilburn Webb acquired his early advantages at Vowells Mill and 
prepared for the teaching profession in the Louisiana State Normal College 
at Natchitoches.  He taught his first school at Bethel, being teacher of 
the fourth and fifth grades.  This was in 1920, and the following year he 
came to the principalship of the schools at Lula.  He has also attended 
Louisiana State University and with the class of 1925 took the B. E. degree 
from that institution.  He is a member of the Sigma Delta Tau fraternity of 
the State Normal School and belongs to the Mansfield Masonic Lodge.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 370-371, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.