WEBB, (Rev.) Thomas F., ENG., then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
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REV. THOMAS F. WEBB, LAFAYETTE.--Rev. Thomas F. Webb is a native of England,
born 1823.  His father, Thomas A. Webb, was a prosperous merchant on the east
coast of England; early in life he married Miss Susan Grinsby, and they became
the parents of seventeen children, only two of whom are now living, our
subjects and his elder brother, the Rev. Edward Webb, who resides at Oxford,
Pennsylvania.  Thomas A. Webb died in 1836; his widow survived him until 1855. 
They were both members of the Congregational church.

Rev. Thomas F. Webb was principally educated in Massachusetts.  He married in
St. Louis, Missouri, in 1848, Miss Sophia Stephens, of New York, daughter of
Gideon Stephens.  Rev. Webb was ordained a minister in the Methodist church in
1872, and has been engaged in the performance of his ministerial duties since
that time.  He removed to Louisiana from St. Louis in 1869 and located where
he now resides.  He has a beautiful and fertile plantation consisting of four
hundred acres of land near Lafayette.  Rev. Webb has prospered as regards
worldly goods and his plantation is one of the most successfully operated in
this section.  He is a member of the Masonic order, Hope Lodge 23.  He and
wife are the parents of six children.  His two sons, T. F. and Wm. G., are
foreign missionaries.  Mary G.,  Edward,  Lizzie and  Anna are at home.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 250. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.