J. M. Webb; Winn Parish, Louisiana
Contributed by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
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James Monroe Webb
Is the President of the Police Jury in Winn Parish and is a man of excellent judgment 
and wields a most salutary influence in this section.  He is broad, progressive and 
conservative.  He is a son of Daniel Webb, who came from Alabama.  he married 
Tempie Kinard, who was Dutch.  She was also reared in Alabama.  They had ten 
children.  He died in Union Parish in 1861; she in 1863.  

Mr. Webb himself was born in Union County, Arkansas, may 21st, 1851, and was 
educated in a good knowledge of things.  He is now Justice of the Peace and president 
of the Police Jury and is rendering a signal service to his section.  He lives in Atlanta 
which is a prosperous town of 1000 people 12 miles south of Winnfield which is 
surrounded with a most prosperous country.  

June 2, 1872 Mr. Webb married Miss Eva Morris.  They have five children; two dead.

When asked if he thought our country had a good future replied, yes sir, I do.  He is 
now quite a man of affairs and lives easy and does what he can for many good causes.  
Mr. Webb says truck raisers could make a good living in his community now.

Motto:  "Unswerving integrity and to be of special service to my country and mankind."

(The above article was copied from The Guardian newspaper, Vol. XXVII, No. 8-9, 
published September-October, 1907 at Winnfield, LA., and the above newspaper is 
on file at the Watson Memorial Library, Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern State 
University, Natchitoches, LA., and was submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, 
Winnfield, LA.)