Wade & Webb Family History

Mattie Coley Webb1895–1969

Alabama · Coosa · Birmingham · Forest Hill Cemetery

Mattie Coley Webb lost her mother, Elba Lively, in 1899, when she was a small child, and grew up in her father's household in Coosa County and then in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1915 she married Fred K. Brown, and the couple raised a son and a daughter in Birmingham, where in 1944 she welcomed her half-sister Hilda and her son on their way from California to Miami. Widowed in 1953, she married Clinton Jerome Kinard in 1959 and died at Birmingham in 1969.

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

Birth

  1. 27 Nov 1895 Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 3 Nov 1915 Fred Kent Brown, at Woodlawn, Jefferson, Alabama 6
  2. 3 Nov 1915 Fred Kent Brown, at Jefferson, Alabama 6
  3. Date unknown Clinton Jerome Kinard

Death and burial

  1. May 1969 Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery, Jefferson, Alabama
  2. 15 May 1969 Death: Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama 16

Family

Parents
James Pleasant Webb 1869–1965
Elba Lively 1878–1899
Marriage 1, 3 Nov 1915
Fred Kent Brown 1894–1953
Children
Fred K Brown 1920–1993
Mayme Melba Brown 1922–?
Marriage 2
Clinton Jerome Kinard 1915–2001

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Mattie Coley Webb
  2. Half-sister of Hilda Webb
  3. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Half-aunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Mattie Coley Webb was born in Alabama on 27 November 1895, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date.1 She was the second child of James Pleasant Webb and his first wife, Elba Lively, after her sister Wilma Lila (born 1894), and before her brother James Roy (1897) and sister Florria Elbert (1899).2 Her mother died in 1899.3 The federal census of 1900 listed Mattie C. Webb in her father's household in Precinct 3, Socapatoy, Coosa County, Alabama, and by 1910 the family had moved to the twelfth ward of Birmingham, Jefferson County, where the census found her again in his household.4 Her father married twice more, to Theodocia J. Carlisle in 1900 and, after Theodocia's death, to Lila Walden in 1901, the mother of her half-brothers Reuben Walden and Harris Palmer Webb and her half-sister Hilda.5

Marriage to Fred K. Brown

On 3 November 1915 Mattie C. Webb married Fred K. Brown in Jefferson County; the marriage is indexed several times in the Alabama marriage records, and the tree places it at Woodlawn, in Jefferson County.6 Fred Kent Brown, born on 1 January 1894, had grown up in the households of Henry Brown and Henry L. Brown in Jefferson County, in 1910 in the same twelfth ward of Birmingham as the Webbs.7 The federal censuses of 1920, 1930 and 1940 listed Mattie in her husband's household in Birmingham; in 1940 the family lived in Tract 16, Election Precinct 21, the same census tract as her sister Wilma and Wilma's husband Wade Edward Powell.8

The tree names two children of the marriage: Fred K. Brown, born in 1920, who died in 1993, and Mayme Melba Brown, born in 1922.9 Mattie is named as the mother, under her maiden name, Mattie Coley Webb, in the Jefferson County marriage records of both children, of her son in July 1938 and of her daughter in August 1941.10

In March 1944 the Birmingham News-Age-Herald reported that "Mrs. Frank E. Wade (Hilda Webb) and son, Webb, of New York City, arrived Thursday for a visit with Mrs. Wade's sister, Mrs. Fred K. Brown, on Norwood Boulevard."11 Mrs. Wade was travelling from California, where her husband, Lieutenant Commander Frank E. Wade, was stationed, to Miami, Florida.11 The notice calls Hilda Mattie's sister; the two were half-sisters, daughters of James Pleasant Webb by different mothers.12

Later years

Fred Kent Brown died at Birmingham on 28 February 1953.13 On 8 October 1959 Mattie Coley Brown married Clinton Jerome Kinard in Jefferson County; her father, indexed as "James Pleas Webb," is named in the marriage record.14 Her father died in Birmingham in 1965.15

Mattie Brown Kinard died at Birmingham on 15 May 1969, and was buried that month at Forest Hill Cemetery, Jefferson County, according to the tree.16 The Alabama death index for her names her husband, Clinton Kinard, and her father, J. P. Webb.16 Find a Grave indexes her as Mattie C. Webb Brown Kinard.17

Documents

  1. 20 March 1944 Mrs. Frank E. Wade (Hilda Webb) and son, Webb, of New York City (social note) The Anniston Star (Anniston, Alabama), from the Birmingham News-Age-Herald · clipping

Places

  1. 1900Coosa
  2. 1900Coosa
  3. 1910–1969Jefferson
  4. 1915Woodlawn
  5. 1915Jefferson
  6. 1940Jefferson
  7. 1969Forest Hill Cemetery

Timeline

  1. 27 Nov 1895BirthAlabama
  2. 1900ResidenceED 22 Precincts 5, 12 Mount Olive, Jordan Stewartsville, Coosa, Alabama
  3. 1900ResidencePrecinct 3 Socapatoy, Coosa, Alabama
  4. 1910ResidenceBirmingham Ward 12, Jefferson, Alabama
  5. 3 Nov 1915Marriage, Fred Kent BrownWoodlawn, Jefferson, Alabama
  6. 3 Nov 1915Marriage, Fred Kent BrownJefferson, Alabama
  7. 1920ResidenceBirmingham, Jefferson, Alabama
  8. 1930ResidenceBirmingham, Jefferson, Alabama
  9. 1935ResidenceBirmingham
  10. 1940ResidenceTract 16, Birmingham, Election Precinct 21, Jefferson, Alabama
  11. May 1969BurialForest Hill Cemetery, Jefferson, Alabama
  12. 15 May 1969DeathBirmingham, 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

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD67-TT7: birth 27 Nov 1895, Alabama, no source attached back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD67-TT7: parents James Pleasant Webb and Elba Lively FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-7ZS (their page): children of James Pleasant Webb and Elba Lively: Wilma Lila 1894, Mattie Coley 1895, James Roy 1897, Florria Elbert 1899 back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-SMX (their page): Elba Lively, 1878–1899 back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, Mattie C Webb in entry for James P Webb, 1900. Record: Mattie C Webb in the household of James P Webb, 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD67-TT7: residence 1900, Precinct 3 Socapatoy, Coosa; 1910, Birmingham Ward 12 "United States, Census, 1910", FamilySearch, Mattie C Webb in entry for James P Webb, 1910. Record: Mattie C Webb in the household of James P Webb, 1910 back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-7ZS (their page): marriages to Theodocia J. Carlisle, 25 Feb 1900, and Lila Walden, 24 Feb 1901 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GS8G-PZ4 (their page): death 14 Jan 1901 "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 back to the text
  6. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Fred K Brown and Mattie C Webb, 3 Nov 1915. Record: Fred K Brown and Mattie C Webb, 3 Nov 1915 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Fred K. Brown and Mattie C. Webb, 03 Nov 1915. Record: Fred K. Brown and Mattie C. Webb, 03 Nov 1915 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Mattie C. Webb in entry for Fred K. Brown, 3 Nov 1915. Record: Mattie C. Webb in entry for Fred K. Brown, 3 Nov 1915 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD67-TT7: marriage 3 Nov 1915, Woodlawn, Jefferson, Alabama back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3W-ZS6 (their page): birth 1 Jan 1894, Alabama "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, Freddie K Brown in entry for Henry Brown, 1900. Record: Freddie K Brown in the household of Henry Brown, 1900 "United States, Census, 1910", FamilySearch, Fred K Brown in entry for Henry L Brown, 1910. Record: Fred K Brown in the household of Henry L Brown, 1910 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3W-ZS6 (their page): residence 1910, Birmingham Ward 12 back to the text
  8. "United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch, Mattie Brown in entry for Fred K Brown, 1920. Record: Mattie Brown in the household of Fred K Brown, 1920 "United States, Census, 1930", FamilySearch, Mattie C Brown, 1930. Record: Mattie C Brown in the household of Fred K Brown, 1930 "United States, Census, 1940", FamilySearch, Mattie C Brown in entry for Fred K Brown, 1940. Record: Mattie C Brown in entry for Fred K Brown, 1940 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD67-TT7: residence 1940, Tract 16, Birmingham, Election Precinct 21 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-CZK (their page): residence 1940, Tract 16, Birmingham, Election Precinct 21 back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD67-TT7: children Fred K Brown, 1920–1993, and Mayme Melba Brown, 1922 back to the text
  10. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Mattie Coley Webb in entry for Fred K Brown and Randa Elizabeth Dyar, 15 Jul 1938. Record: Mattie Coley Webb in entry for Fred K Brown, 15 Jul 1938 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Mattie Coley Webb in entry for John Wilfred Budd and Mayme Melba Brown, 31 Aug 1941. Record: Mattie Coley Webb in entry for Mayme Melba Brown, 31 Aug 1941 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Mattie Coley Webb in entry for John Wilfred Budd and Mayme Melba Brown, 30 Aug 1941. Record: 30 Aug 1941 back to the text
  11. Mrs. Frank E. Wade (Hilda Webb) and son, Webb, of New York City (social note), The Anniston Star (Anniston, Alabama), from the Birmingham News-Age-Herald: arrived Thursday for a visit with Mrs. Wade's sister, Mrs. Fred K. Brown, on Norwood Boulevard; Mrs. Wade is en route from California, where Lieutenant Commander Wade is stationed, to Miami, Fla. back to the text
  12. Mrs. Frank E. Wade (Hilda Webb) and son, Webb, of New York City (social note), The Anniston Star (Anniston, Alabama), from the Birmingham News-Age-Herald: notes: her half-sister Mrs. Fred K. Brown (Mattie Coley Webb) FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-QPY (their page): parents James Pleasant Webb and Lila Walden back to the text
  13. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3W-ZS6 (their page): death 28 Feb 1953, Birmingham "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Fred Kent Brown, 1953. Record: Fred Kent Brown, Alabama Deaths, 1953 back to the text
  14. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Clinton Jerome Kinard and Mattie Coley Brown, 08 Oct 1959. Record: Clinton Jerome Kinard and Mattie Coley Brown, 08 Oct 1959 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, James Pleas Webb in entry for Clinton Jerome Kinard and Mattie Coley Brown, 08 Oct 1959. Record: James Pleas Webb in entry for Clinton Jerome Kinard and Mattie Coley Brown, 08 Oct 1959 back to the text
  15. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-7ZS (their page): death 24 Sep 1965, Birmingham back to the text
  16. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LD67-TT7: death 15 May 1969, Birmingham; burial May 1969, Forest Hill Cemetery, Jefferson, Alabama "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Mattie Brown Kinard, 1969. Record: Mattie Brown Kinard, Alabama Deaths, 1969 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Clinton Kinard in entry for Mattie Brown Kinard, 1969. Record: Clinton Kinard in entry for Mattie Brown Kinard, 1969 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, J. P. Webb in entry for Mattie Brown Kinard, 1969. Record: J. P. Webb in entry for Mattie Brown Kinard, 1969 back to the text
  17. "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Mattie C Webb Brown Kinard. Record: Mattie C Webb Brown Kinard, Find a Grave Index back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Mattie Coley Webb (21)
  1. 1900Mattie C Webb in household of James P Webb, "United States Census, 1900"
  2. 1900Mattie U Brown, "United States, Census, 1900"
  3. 1910Mattie C Webb in household of James P Webb, "United States Census, 1910"
  4. 3 Nov 1915Mattie C Webb, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  5. 3 Nov 1915Mattie C Webb, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  6. 03 Nov 1915Mattie C. Webb, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  7. 1915Mattie C. Webb, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
  8. 3 Nov 1915Mattie C. Webb, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
  9. 1915Mattie C. Webb, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
  10. 1920Mattie Brown in household of Fred K Brown, "United States Census, 1920"
  11. 1930Mattie C Brown in household of Fred K Brown, "United States Census, 1930"
  12. 15 Jul 1938Mattie Coley Webb, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  13. 1940Mattie C Brown in household of Fred K Brown, "United States Census, 1940"
  14. 31 Aug 1941Mattie Coley Webb in entry for John Wilfred Budd and Mayme Melba Brown, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  15. 30 Aug 1941Mattie Coley Webb, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  16. 08 Oct 1959Mattie Coley Brown, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  17. 1969Mattie Brown Kinard, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  18. 18 September 1969Mattie Coley Webb, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  19. Mattie C Webb Brown Kinard, "Find a Grave Index"
  20. Mattie Webb, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
  21. 3 Nov 1915Fred K Brown, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"