Edgecombe County, NC - William Wade Webb

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Descendants of William Wade Webb

Generation No. 1

WILLIAM WADE1 WEBB1 was born Abt. 1841 in Edgecombe County, North 
Carolina, and died bet. 1894 - 1895 in Forrest City, Arkansas. He 
married MATILDA VIRGINIA BARKER2 July 1866 in St. Francis County, 
Arkansas. She was born 1849 in Graves County, Kentucky, and died 
October 10, 1910 in Arkansas.

Notes for WILLIAM WADE WEBB:
Wade Webb ran away from home in Edgecombe County at an early age with 
the Byrum, Webb, and Barnes families going to Tennessee. Wade then went 
to St. Francis County, Arkansas in 1853. One of Wade's brothers Elbert 
went to Arkansas and tried to get Wade to return to North Carolina but 
Wade would not return.

Wade drowned near Newcastle community just north of Forrest City in 
Arkansas crossing the St. Francis River on horseback in 1894-1895. The 
horse threw him and while he was under the water the horse kicked him 
in the head, therefore killing him.

The following is from the Goodspeed's Biographies 1889-1890 St. Francis 
County, Arkansas.

Wade Webb, a farmer by occupation, owes his nativity to the State of 
North Carolina, his birth occurring in Edgecombe County in 1841. (In 
1840 North Carolina Court Minutes it states that Orman Webb was Wade's 
father. Not John). John and Esther Webb, his parents, were natives of 
the same State. The ancestors came from England before the 
Revolutionary War, settling near James River in Virginia. Wade Webb 
passed his youthful days in the schools of North Carolina, and upon 
coming to St. Francis County, Arkansas 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 Virginia daughter of Absalom and 
Matilda Barker, and to their union seven children were given, five 
living: John Lee, Remington Pender, Willie W., James R. and Elbert.

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.

Although the above article lists Wade's father as John Webb, in the 
North Carolina Court Minutes the following appears:

1840
State vs Orman Webb

Bastardy; The defendant having appeared according to the condition of 
his recognizance and it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that 
the child is born. It is ordered by the Court that he pay into office 
$15 down for the use of the mother, Easther Webb and $10.00 a year for 
six succeeding years, the first payment to be due August term 1841 and 
that he enter into bond with sufficient security conditioned for her 
compliance with this order and the maintenance of said child whereupon 
he entered into bond with John Webb and Watson Harrell in compliance 
with the upon order.

Wade left N.C. at an early age and settled in St. Francis Co. Ar. He 
joined the Confederacy at Wittsburg, Ar. on June 12, 1861. He was in 
Company B of the Fifth Arkansas Infantry under Colonel M. Walker, and 
was a Private. Wade was taken prisoner in Forsythe GA. on Sept. 12 1864 
and took the oath on May 15, 1865 at Newberg N.C.
	
Children of WILLIAM WEBB and MATILDA BARKER are:
	i.    JOHN LEE2 WEBB2, b. May 1870, St. Frances County, Arkansas; 
              d. April 04, 1928; m. SULA DONALD, March 01, 1901.
	ii.   REMINGTON PENDER WEBB2, b. March 11, 1873, St. Frances County,
              Arkansas; d. November 03, 1960; m. ARVIE ZENA BARKER, March 
              09, 1898; d. May 07, 1963.

More About REMINGTON PENDER WEBB:
Burial: Loughridge Cemetary Cross County, Arkansas

	iii.  WILLIAM WADE JR. WEBB2, b. March 14, 1876, St. Frances County, 
              Arkansas; d. March 19, 1961; m. JENNIE VIERU MELTON, July 15, 
              1900, Dr. J. F. McDougal's Home, Newcastle, Arkansas; b. June 
              07, 1882; d. August 14, 1959.
	iv.   JAMES ROBERT WEBB2, b. September 07, 1882, St. Frances County, 
              Arkansas; d. July 03, 1912, St. Francis County, Arkansas; m. 
              MOLLIE NICHOLS; b. 1883; d. 1965.
	v.    ELBERT WEBB2, b. 1887, St. Frances County, Arkansas; d. 1918; 
              m. STELLA MOISE; b. 1891; d. 1929.

Endnotes

1. Goodspeeds' Biographies  1889-1890 St. Francis County, Arkansas Page 501.
2.  Marjorie Danley, Decendant of Wade.