{"id":1030,"date":"2015-09-22T20:09:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T01:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:37","slug":"madison-h-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/madison-h-webb\/","title":{"rendered":"WEBB, Madison H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MADISON H. WEBB<\/strong>, farmer, was born in Bedford County, Tenn., February 5, 1836, and is the son of <strong>Benjamin and Elizabeth W. (Reeves) Webb<\/strong>.\u00a0 The father was born in Sevier County, Tenn., June 16, 1792, and died in Bedford County, June 18, 1884.\u00a0 The mother was born July 18, 1796, in Orange County, N. C., and was married to <strong>Benjamin Webb<\/strong> September 16, 1821.\u00a0 To this union were born six sons, of whom our subject is the youngest.<\/p>\n<p>He was reared on the farm, educated in the common schools, and assisted his parents on the farm until twenty-one years of age.\u00a0 He was a lieutenant in the Confederate Army, enlisting in the\u00a0 Eighteenth Tennessee Infantry, but was afterward transferred to the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, under Col. Starnes.\u00a0 He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and some actions in the Georgia campaign.\u00a0 He was captured at Fort Donelson and held a prisoner at Lincoln Barracks, Springfield, Ill., for the space of one month, when he escaped.\u00a0 December 11, 1867, he wedded <strong>Miss Elnora Elam<\/strong>, daughter of <strong>James A. Elam<\/strong>.\u00a0 The fruits of this union were five children &#8212; three sons and two daughters.\u00a0 Our subject has a fine farm of 600 acres.\u00a0 He is a Democrat; a Mason (Knight Templar), and he and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON H. WEBB, farmer, was born in Bedford County, Tenn., February 5, 1836, and is the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth W. (Reeves) Webb.\u00a0 The father was born in Sevier County, Tenn., June 16, 1792, and died in Bedford County, June 18, 1884.\u00a0 The mother was born July 18, 1796, in Orange County, N. C., &#8230; <a title=\"WEBB, Madison H.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/madison-h-webb\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WEBB, Madison H.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1505],"tags":[3509,3510,3508,3507,3506],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-sevier","tag-elam-elnora","tag-elam-james-a","tag-reeves-elizabeth-w","tag-webb-benjamin","tag-webb-madison-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}