Wade & Webb Family History

Lila Walden1877–1937

Housework. Alabama · Coosa · Birmingham · Tampa

Born in Alabama in 1877 and raised in Coosa County, Lila Walden married James Pleasant Webb there in 1901 and moved with him to Birmingham, where they raised three children and, in 1920, shared their home with her parents. She died at Tampa, Florida, on 2 October 1937 and was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery, Irondale, near Birmingham.

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (2)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Searches made
  8. Notes

Birth

  1. 17 Sep 1877 Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 24 Feb 1901 James Pleasant Webb, at Coosa, Alabama 5
  2. 24 Feb 1901 James Pleasant Webb, at Coosa County, Alabama 5
  3. 24 Feb 1901 James Pleasant Webb, at Coosa, Alabama 5

Death and burial

  1. 2 Oct 1937 Death: Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida 20, 21
  2. 4 Oct 1937 Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery, Irondale, Jefferson, Alabama 22

Family

Parents
William Walker Walden 1850–1920
Emma Louise McKinney 1854–1923
Spouse, 24 Feb 1901
James Pleasant Webb 1869–1965
Children
Hilda Webb 1908–1986
Harris Palmer Webb 1905–1991
Webb 1901–1901
Reuben Walden Webb 1903–1976

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Lila Walden
  2. Hilda Webb, daughter
  3. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Grandmother of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Lila Walden was born in Alabama on 17 September 1877, a date the FamilySearch tree gives without an attached source.1 She was a daughter of William Walker Walden and Emma Louise McKinney, who had married in Coosa County, Alabama, on 14 July 1875.2 The tree records her full name as Martha Louise Walden, with Lila as the name she went by, and the census records bear out both: the federal census of 1880 lists her as Martha Walden in the household (the people living together at one address, as the census-taker recorded them) of W. W. Walden, in the Crews election precinct of Coosa County.3 By 1900 the family was in the Lauderdale precinct of the same county, where the census indexes her as "M E Walden" in her father's household.4 Inference The initials "M E" are probably a misreading of "M L", for Martha Louise, by the enumerator or the indexer; the original page has not been examined.4

Marriage and Birmingham

On 24 February 1901 Lila Walden married J. P. Webb in Coosa County.5 The Montgomery Advertiser's weekly list of marriages by county printed the event on 10 March 1901 as "In Coosa County, Pleasant Webb and Miss Lila Walden," using the middle name by which her husband was known.6 James Pleasant Webb, born at Kellyton, Coosa County, on 8 February 1869, was a son of Charles David Webb and Clarrissa Jane Carlisle.7 He had been married twice before: to Elba Lively in Lee County on 7 September 1893, who died at Goodwater, Coosa County, on 10 November 1899, and to Theodocia J. Carlisle on 25 February 1900, who died on 14 January 1901, six weeks before his marriage to Lila.8 The tree names four children of his first marriage, James Roy, Florria Elbert, Mattie Coley and Wilma Lila Webb.9

The tree records four children of Lila and James Pleasant Webb.10 The first, entered only as "Webb", was born and died on 17 September 1901 and was buried at Kellyton; the tree's only sources for the child are the Find a Grave and BillionGraves indexes, which call it "Infant Webb".11 Reuben Walden Webb was born at Kellyton on 3 January 1903, Harris Palmer Webb in Alabama on 5 November 1905, and Hilda Webb at Birmingham, Jefferson County, on 29 October 1908.12 By 1910 the family had moved to Birmingham, where the census of that year lists "Lela Webb" in the household of James P. Webb in the city's 12th Ward.13 In August 1912 "James Pleasant Webb and wife and their three children, Walden, Palmer and Hilda, Birmingham, Ala." were among those at a reunion of the Webb family at the old homestead of Charles David Webb near Kellyton, a gathering of four generations reported in the Alexander City Outlook.14

The household was still in Birmingham at the census of 1920, which indexes Lila as "Ida Webb" in the entry for Jas. P. Webb.15 Inference Since every other record calls her Lila or Lela, "Ida" is most likely an indexing error, though the original page has not been examined.15 Her parents were living with the Webbs that year: the same census lists "Walla W Walden" and "Emma S Walden" in the household.16 Her father died in Birmingham on 21 January 1920, and her mother at Fairfield, Jefferson County, on 1 December 1923.17 The census of 1930 again found Lila Webb in her husband's household in Birmingham.18 The tree gives her occupation as "Housework", without a source.19

Death at Tampa

Lila Walden Webb died at Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, on 2 October 1937.20 The Florida death record names her parents as Walker W. Walden and Emma McKinney, and J. P. Webb also appears in the entry.21 She was buried on 4 October 1937 at Forest Hill Cemetery, Irondale, Jefferson County, Alabama.22 The tree also records a residence at Tampa, without a date; what took her there is not shown by any record in hand.23 James Pleasant Webb survived her by many years, married again in 1939, and died in Birmingham on 24 September 1965.24

When her daughter Hilda married Frank E. Wade at Forest Hills, New York, in August 1933, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle described the bride as "daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Webb, of Birmingham, Ala." and "a great-granddaughter of General Walden, noted Confederate general of Walden Ridge fame."25 Hilda's great-grandfather on the Walden side, Lila's grandfather, was Westley D. Walden (1819–1863), whom the tree, without a source, records as captain of Company B, 60th Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army.26 Inference The "General Walden" of the announcement is therefore probably a family tradition that enlarged his rank; no record in hand shows a Confederate general of the name in this family.26

Documents

  1. 10 March 1901 Married in Alabama (county marriage list) The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama) · clipping
  2. 26 November 2011 Find a Grave memorial: Lila Walden Webb Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1880Coosa
  2. 1900Coosa
  3. 1901Coosa
  4. 1910–1930Jefferson
  5. 1937Tampa
  6. 1937Forest Hill Cemetery

Timeline

  1. 17 Sep 1877BirthAlabama
  2. 1880ResidenceElection Precinct 16 Crews, Coosa, Alabama
  3. 1900ResidenceElection Precinct 17 Lauderdale, Coosa, Alabama
  4. 24 Feb 1901Marriage, James Pleasant WebbCoosa, Alabama
  5. 24 Feb 1901Marriage, James Pleasant WebbCoosa County, Alabama
  6. 24 Feb 1901Marriage, James Pleasant WebbCoosa, Alabama
  7. 1910ResidenceBirmingham Ward 12, Jefferson, Alabama
  8. 1920ResidenceBirmingham, Jefferson, Alabama
  9. 1930ResidenceBirmingham, Jefferson, Alabama
  10. 2 Oct 1937DeathTampa, Hillsborough, Florida
  11. 4 Oct 1937BurialForest Hill Cemetery, Irondale, Jefferson, Alabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Bulk review of Matt's OneDrive genealogy folder (Phase 3): all documents transcribed and compared with the tree1 document(s) name this person; see Documents above. Conflicts and new facts are in each document record and in research/sources/document-review-2026-11-08.md
  2. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Lila Walden, b. 1877 ±3, d. 1937 ±3: 0 results; Lila Webb, b. 1877 ±3, d. 1937 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [Lila Walden Webb (17 Sep 1877 – 2 Oct 1937), Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81057007/lila-webb); score 21 (high, before review)
  3. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 81057007](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81057007), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/81057007-lila-walden-webb.md); 2 headstone photo(s)
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Lila Walden", Alabama6 pages; first: [The American descendants of Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard, 1994, p. ](https://archive.org/details/americandescenda02mcco?q=%22Lila%20Walden%22); [Shelby County Reporter July - September 1980, 1980, p. ](https://archive.org/details/shelby-county-reporter-july-september-1980?q=%22Lila%20Walden%22); [Directory of California Manufacturers, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/directoryofcalif0000vari?q=%22Lila%20Walden%22)
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Martha Louise Walden", Alabamano matches
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Martha Walden", Alabama78 pages; first: [They say the wind is red : the Alabama Choctaw-- lost in their own land, 2002, p. ](https://archive.org/details/theysaywindisred0000matt?q=%22Martha%20Walden%22); [1987 Tarrant High School Yearbook, 1987, p. ](https://archive.org/details/classmates-yearbook-40821-1987-tarrant-high-school?q=%22Martha%20Walden%22); [The Gooch Family of Williamson County Tennessee, 1982, p. ](https://archive.org/details/gooch-williamson-tn?q=%22Martha%20Walden%22)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walden", inside histcoosacobrew9 pages; first: [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 83](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n83/mode/1up?q=Walden); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 107](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n107/mode/1up?q=Walden); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 171](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n171/mode/1up?q=Walden); 0 with the given name (Lila)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walden", inside memorialrecordof00tayl2 pages; first: [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 123](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n123/mode/1up?q=Walden); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 159](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n159/mode/1up?q=Walden); 0 with the given name (Lila)
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walden", inside northernalabamah00birm5 pages; first: [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 136](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n136/mode/1up?q=Walden); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 136](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n136/mode/1up?q=Walden); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 136](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n136/mode/1up?q=Walden); 0 with the given name (Lila)
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walden", inside historyofalabama01owen2 pages; first: [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 143](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n143/mode/1up?q=Walden); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 416](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n416/mode/1up?q=Walden); 0 with the given name (Lila)
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walden", inside birminghamcitydi1914unse5 pages; first: [Birmingham city directory, 1909, p. 239](https://archive.org/details/birminghamcitydi1914unse/page/n239/mode/1up?q=Walden); [Birmingham city directory, 1909, p. 1264](https://archive.org/details/birminghamcitydi1914unse/page/n1264/mode/1up?q=Walden); [Birmingham city directory, 1909, p. 1274](https://archive.org/details/birminghamcitydi1914unse/page/n1274/mode/1up?q=Walden); 0 with the given name (Lila)
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walden", inside jeffersoncountyb00dubo1 page; first: [Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama; historical and biographical, 1887, p. 255](https://archive.org/details/jeffersoncountyb00dubo/page/n255/mode/1up?q=Walden); 0 with the given name (Lila)
  13. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walden", inside storyofcoalironi00armeno matches; 0 with the given name (Lila)
  14. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Lila Walden", "Martha Walden", "Martha Louise Walden", AlabamaNot her: "Lila Walden" hits are a 1957 Miami marriage (she died in 1937); "Martha Walden" hits are other women (Choctaw missionary, Tennessee, Virginia teacher). No hit for "Martha Louise".
  15. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Walden" inside the Coosa, Jefferson County, Birmingham, *Memorial Record*, *Northern Alabama*, Owen and coal-and-iron booksNo Lila: the Coosa history names her grandfather W. D. Walden and father "Walker" (see her grandfather's log and the [W. D. Walden record](../documents/1942-coosa-history-w-d-walden.md)); the Birmingham directory (1909) has other Waldens (R. E., J. W.).
  16. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 10 searchesNo match for Lila herself; her father and grandfather are in the Coosa history ([W. D. Walden record](../documents/1942-coosa-history-w-d-walden.md)).
  17. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Lila Walden"no matches
  18. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Martha Louise Walden", Alabamano matches
  19. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 2 searchesNo hits; nothing to assess.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: birth 17 Sep 1877, Alabama, no source attached to the event back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: parents William Walker Walden and Emma Louise McKinney "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, W. W. Walden and E. L. Mckinney, 14 Jul 1875. Record: W. W. Walden and E. L. Mckinney, 14 Jul 1875 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): marriage 14 Jul 1875, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: other names: Martha Louise (Lila) Walden "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Martha Walden in entry for W. W. Walden, 1880. Record: Martha Walden in entry for W. W. Walden, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: residence 1880, Election Precinct 16 Crews, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, M E Walden in entry for W W Walden, 1900. Record: M E Walden in entry for W W Walden, 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: residence 1900, Election Precinct 17 Lauderdale, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  5. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, J. P. Webb and Lila Walden, 24 Feb 1901. Record: J. P. Webb and Lila Walden, 24 Feb 1901 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Lila Walden in entry for J. P. Webb, 24 Feb 1901. Record: Lila Walden in entry for J. P. Webb, 24 Feb 1901 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: marriage 24 Feb 1901, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  6. Married in Alabama (county marriage list), The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama): In Coosa County, Pleasant Webb and Miss Lila Walden back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-7ZS (their page): born 8 Feb 1869, Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama, parents Charles David Webb and Clarrissa Jane Carlisle "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, J P Webb in entry for C D Webb, 1870. Record: J P Webb in entry for C D Webb, 1870 back to the text
  8. "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, J. P. Webb, 7 September 1893. Record: J. P. Webb, 7 September 1893 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-7ZS (their page): marriage to Elba Lively 7 Sep 1893, Lee, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-SMX (their page): died 10 Nov 1899, Goodwater, Coosa, Alabama "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, J. P. Webb and Theo Carlisle, 25 Feb 1900. Record: J. P. Webb and Theo Carlisle, 25 Feb 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GS8G-PZ4 (their page): died 14 Jan 1901, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-7ZS (their page): children with Elba Lively: James Roy, Florria Elbert, Mattie Coley, Wilma Lila Webb back to the text
  10. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: children Webb (1901), Reuben Walden Webb (1903), Harris Palmer Webb (1905), Hilda Webb (1908) back to the text
  11. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GSD8-X3C (their page): birth and death 17 Sep 1901, burial Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Infant Webb. Record: Infant Webb, Find a Grave Index "BillionGraves Index", FamilySearch, Infant Webb. Record: Infant Webb, BillionGraves Index back to the text
  12. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-4MS (their page): born 3 Jan 1903, Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-SVD (their page): born 5 Nov 1905, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-QPY (their page): born 29 Oct 1908, Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama back to the text
  13. "United States, Census, 1910", FamilySearch, Lela Webb in entry for James P Webb, 1910. Record: Lela Webb in entry for James P Webb, 1910 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: residence 1910, Birmingham Ward 12, Jefferson, Alabama back to the text
  14. 1912-08-16-james-pleasant-webb-hilda-webb-family-gathering: James Pleasant Webb and wife and their three children, Walden, Palmer and Hilda, Birmingham, Ala. back to the text
  15. "United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch, Ida Webb in entry for Jas P Webb, 1920. Record: Ida Webb in entry for Jas P Webb, 1920 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: residence 1920, Birmingham back to the text
  16. "United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch, Walla W Walden in entry for Jas P Webb, 1920. Record: Walla W Walden in entry for Jas P Webb, 1920 "United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch, Emma S Walden in entry for Jas P Webb, 1920. Record: Emma S Walden in entry for Jas P Webb, 1920 back to the text
  17. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): death 21 Jan 1920, Birmingham "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, William Walker Walden, 1920. Record: William Walker Walden, Alabama Deaths, 1920 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5 (their page): death 1 Dec 1923, Fairfield, Jefferson, Alabama "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Emma W. Welden, 1923. Record: Emma W. Welden, Alabama Deaths, 1923 back to the text
  18. "United States, Census, 1930", FamilySearch, Lila Webb in entry for James P Webb, 1930. Record: Lila Webb in entry for James P Webb, 1930 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: residence 1930, Birmingham back to the text
  19. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: occupation Housework, no source attached back to the text
  20. "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939", FamilySearch, Lila Walden Webb, 2 October 1937. Record: Lila Walden Webb, 2 October 1937 "Florida, Death Index, 1877-1998", FamilySearch, Lila Walden Webb, 1937. Record: Lila Walden Webb, Florida Death Index, 1937 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: death 2 Oct 1937, Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida back to the text
  21. "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939", FamilySearch, Walker W. Walden in entry for Lila Walden Webb, 2 October 1937. Record: Walker W. Walden in entry for Lila Walden Webb "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939", FamilySearch, Emma McKinney in entry for Lila Walden Webb, 2 October 1937. Record: Emma McKinney in entry for Lila Walden Webb "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939", FamilySearch, J. P. Webb in entry for Lila Walden Webb, 2 October 1937. Record: J. P. Webb in entry for Lila Walden Webb back to the text
  22. "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Lila Walden Webb. Record: Lila Walden Webb, Find a Grave Index FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: burial 4 Oct 1937, Forest Hill Cemetery, Irondale, Jefferson, Alabama back to the text
  23. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1: residence Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, no date back to the text
  24. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, James Pleasant Webb and Margaret Blanche Kincaid, 10 Mar 1939. Record: James Pleasant Webb and Margaret Blanche Kincaid, 10 Mar 1939 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-7ZS (their page): death 24 Sep 1965, Birmingham "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, James P. Webb, 1965. Record: James P. Webb, Alabama Deaths, 1965 back to the text
  25. 1933-08-09-frank-e-wade-hilda-webb-marriage-announcement: Miss Hilda Webb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Webb, of Birmingham, Ala., a great-granddaughter of General Walden back to the text
  26. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): parents Westley D Walden and Eliza Robbins FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): military service 1862, Captain Company B 60th Alabama Infantry CSA, no source attached 1933-08-09-frank-e-wade-hilda-webb-marriage-announcement: General Walden, noted Confederate general of Walden Ridge fame back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Lila Walden (12)
  1. 1880Martha Walden, "United States, Census, 1880"
  2. 1900M E Walden, "United States, Census, 1900"
  3. 24 Feb 1901Lila Walden, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 24 Feb 1901Lila Walden, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 1910Lela Webb, "United States, Census, 1910"
  6. 1920Ida Webb, "United States, Census, 1920"
  7. 1930Lila Webb, "United States, Census, 1930"
  8. 1937Lila Walden Webb, "Florida, Death Index, 1877-1998"
  9. 2 October 1937Lila Walden Webb, "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939"
  10. Lila Walden Webb, "Find a Grave Index"
  11. 24 Feb 1901Lila Walden, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  12. 24 Feb 1901Lila Walden, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"