{"id":3346,"date":"2022-01-10T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:46:47","slug":"t-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/t-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb, Micajah D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Micajah D. Webb<\/strong>, one of the oldest farmers and citizens of Lauderdale County,<br \/>\nis a son of Cyrus and Nancy (Mathes) Webb. His father was born in Middle<br \/>\nTennessee, and when young moved to Gibson County, where he married Miss<br \/>\nMathes. In 1830 they moved to Lauderdale County, and lived in the county<br \/>\nuntil 1858, when they moved to Arkansas, where the father died in 1863. After<br \/>\nhis death the mother returned to Lauderdale County, and died in 1868. They had<br \/>\nsix boys and two girls. The mother belonged to the Missionary Baptist Church;<br \/>\nthe father was a mechanic, and in connection with his trade farmed. Our<br \/>\nsubject was the fourth child, and was born December 9, 1828, in Gibson County;<br \/>\nwas raised on a farm, and had few opportunities to attend school. He followed<br \/>\nfarming until 1851, then followed putting up cotton presses and gin-gearing,<br \/>\nand manufacturing spinning wheels and chairs during the war. He had and still<br \/>\nhas a wonderful mechanical genius, and could make almost anything from wood.<br \/>\nIn 1865 he married Minerva C. Meadows, by who he has two children: James A.<br \/>\nand Vaser J. With his wife he belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church. In<br \/>\npolitics he is a Democrat. In connection with his trade he has been farming<br \/>\nsince the war, and while he commenced life without money, by his industry has<br \/>\naccumulated a nice estate. For fifty-six years Mr. Webb has been a citizen of<br \/>\nLauderdale County, and is ever ready to assist in any enterprise for the good<br \/>\nof the county. He is a man temperate in his habits, honest in his dealings,<br \/>\nand respected by all.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micajah D. Webb, one of the oldest farmers and citizens of Lauderdale County, is a son of Cyrus and Nancy (Mathes) Webb. His father was born in Middle Tennessee, and when young moved to Gibson County, where he married Miss <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/t-2\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-webb"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}