This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WEBB Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1MB.2ACI/1944 Message Board Post: Hello all, I'm looking for information on the WEBB surname in the vicinity of Joplin, MO. The line I'm looking for is descended from James WEBB and his wife Eliza (maiden name not known to me), who were in Montgomery Co., Tennessee in the 1880 census. Their children included Donson, Mary, John, Charles, James, Mattie, Ellen, and William. I have a copy of a newspaper obituary from the early 1910's, which stated that Eliza Webb had died in Portales, New Mexico, and that her body was transported to Joplin for burial. The obit also said that a couple of the children were living in Joplin at that time. I am the great-grandson of John WEBB (son of James and Eliza), who died in Alpine, TX in 1914. Please contact me if you are also doing research on this family. Thank you. Bill Cowan