Carter-Ripley-Butler County MO Archives News.....Webb February 1974 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dee Dee Webb Sparks http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00021.html#0005108 April 24, 2007, 10:35 pm Ozark Graphic Weekly February 1974 according to Andy Patterson, who was postmaster at Lee, in Carter County, a small post office located between Hunter and Grandin. Patterson's article appeared in the Prospect News in Doniphan January 14, 1881. Z. Lee Stokely, Ozark Sportsman and Outdoor Writer, picked the article up and reprinted it in the January 24, 1951 issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which stated in part that "snow fell last night to the depth of four inches, and hunting time was over. The Webb boys - Eli, Frank and Ike - killed over 200 deer in the fall and winter, besides several wildcats and catamounts. They sold over 4,000 pounds of venison hams and 1500 pounds of peltry." The hams sold mostly for eight cents and peltry at forty-seven cents per pound. The three boys during the last week of hunting, killed 46 deer, one killed 13, another 15 and the other 18. .....Marketing hunting at that time was not prohibited in Missouri and the three brothers, experts that they must have been with their deer rifles, were certainly looked on with admiration and respect by the citizenry of the sparsely settled Ozark foothills. Their deeds of daring, so the articles pointed out, along with the necessary skill were possibly related around the hearthstones of many a log cabin on cold wintry nights, and Postmaster Andy Patterson pointed out that he wanted the world to know of their prowess! .....While the Webb brothers set their aim on deer and wild turkey, wild pigeons came into the wilderness south of Fremont and they were among the first to shoot the birds for gain. The pigeons were so thick they would break branches off trees when lighting. The three would shoot all night and gather dead pigeons in the morning. These birds were hauled to Piedmont, the nearest railroad point at that time, and shipped to St. Louis. They, along with a few others, shot so persistently the pigeons migrated to the east coast of the United States. Of the four, Eli Webb was reputed to be the "reckless" one and is said to have ridden with a wild bunch during his early days, but lived a righteous life before his death on May 18, 1916, at the age of 71. .....Franklin Pierce Webb died in 1927 at the age of 72. He was probably the widest known of the brothers. His obituary appeared in several weekly papers in Missouri and Louisiana, also in ESSCO, a national lumbermen's magazine. When the Missouri Lumber & Mining Co. erected their big saw mill at Grandin in the 1880's and the railroad was attempting to lay its tracks to that thriving saw mill town, the engineers were stumped when they got as far as Copper Mine Hollow, declaring there was no way for rails to be laid over it. It was Frank Webb who "spot-sighted" a route, and the company was able to build its tracks to Grandin. The officials of the company were so pleased that they showered Mr. Webb with numerous gifts and insisted he accept the position as its woods superintendent, which he held down until the mill cut out in 1912. This was more vividly brought out in a obituary of Mr. Webb which appeared in the March 31, 1927, issue of the Southeast Missourian published at Hunter, a paper no longer existing. .....A breakdown of the children of John Webb and Susan Webb show they were the parents of not only four boys, but five daughters as well, with all but one living out their lives in Carter County. They were Margaret Louisia Webb, Nancy Webb, Elizabeth Webb and Paralee Webb. Margaret Louisia, although the oldest of all the children, lived the longest being well Past 90 when she died at Grandin. Nancy Webb Richmond died May 5, 1910 leaving six children. Elizabeth Webb (1852 - 1921) married Isaac Emmons who died in 1888 at the age of 46 leaving five children; she later married George Smith (1865-1959) and had two children. There is no record of Lucentha Webb and it is presumed she died young. Paralee Webb the youngest of the nine children, married Jonzey Tolliver. They moved to Smackover, Ark. and reared a family of three sons. Of the boys, Eli Webb had eight children. James Webb had one son and a daughter, Frank Webb also was married twice and had eight children, while Isaac Webb left five children. Of all the children of John Webb and Susan (Wells) Webb all but the youngest are at rest in the McRone Cemetery near Grandin, Missouri. Additional Comments: Source: Ozark Graphic Weekly, February, 1974, Page 7 by H. Ted Woods Mr. Wood's story on the Webb family's early coming into the Ozarks and their problems during the Civil War, is one dramatic example of the hill country's historic foundation. 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