Webb Family of Limestone County, Texas

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                                Webb family
                                      
   About 1871, Apalany Kennedy Webb migrated to Limestone County, Texas
   from Butler County, Alabama. She left a power of attorney authorizing
   William R Houghton to act in her behalf in selling property that she
   was leaving in Butler County. Her husband (John Webb) had died and the
   years following the Civil War had been very difficult for Apalany
   because the Union soldiers stole her horses and other property that
   she had. She was left with three young sons who grew up and got
   married in Limestone County, Texas. John Risby Webb married Ada Askew.
   They had eleven children, seven of whom survived, and they remained in
   the area where John Risby owned a store and also farmed. He was said
   to be a good swimmer and he was a generous man. He never refused
   credit to a family who needed food and many of these accounts were
   never paid. He was left handed. The esteem which he felt for his
   mother was shown as he named his first daughter Apalany. She died at
   the age of six days. He tried to get his sons' wives to name their
   daughters Apalany but to no avail. They didn't consider it to be a
   very attractive name. John Risby died at the age of 86 years. Evans
   Rutherford Webb married Carrie M Thompson and moved to the Texas
   Panhandle. They raised six children of whom some worked as mechanics
   in auto garages according to the 1910 census. James Davis "Jim" Webb
   married Mary Araminta Farnsworth in Limestone County on January 14,
   1890. Her father, G W Farnsworth, was a good friend of Jim's and they
   bought and sold land together on several occasions. Jim was ten years
   older than Minta. They soon moved to the Texas Panhandle where they
   lived in Floyd County, Texas for a while and then moved to Yoakum
   County. Wherever they lived, Jim bought parcels of land and sold them.
   Minta also bought some land in her name. Jim lived to be 83 years old.
   Clyde Cecil Webb was the son of John Risby Webb and was employed as a
   rural mail carrier out of the Delia Post Office and he was transferred
   to the Prairie Hill Office when a rural route was established in that
   community. He served as rural carrier there for forty years. Upon his
   retirement the route was divided between the Coolidge and Mount Calm
   Post Offices. This made Clyde the only rural carrier that Praire Hill
   ever had. During this era some patrons could neither read nor write
   and Mr Webb often took the time to read their letters, make out orders
   and read their incoming mail. During World War II when families
   received letters from their sons and husbands on a Sunday, Clyde would
   deliver them that day, knowing of their fears and concerns. He was not
   only their mail carrier but he was also their friend. There were
   gravel roads in the Prairie Hill community during the early years and
   when it rained the roads became impassable for cars. Mr Webb would
   then ride a horse and often walked for miles to see that people on his
   route received their mail.