Wade & Webb Family History

Milinda B Webb1865–1907

Alabama · Soccopatoy · Kellyton Memory Gardens

Milinda B. Webb was the elder of the two daughters of Charles David Webb and Clarrissa Jane Carlisle, raised at Socapatoy in Coosa County, Alabama. She was almost certainly the "Mrs. Linda Davis" whom the family remembered at its reunion of 1912, by which time she had died, in 1907 by the tree's account. Her grave, however, is indexed under the name Henderson, and her married life is still to be traced.

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. 1865 Alabama

Marriages

Not recorded.

Death and burial

  1. 28 May 1907 Death: place not recorded 7
  2. 28 May 1907 Burial: Kellyton Memory Gardens, Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama 7

Family

Parents
Charles David Webb 1839–1923

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Milinda B Webb
  2. Sister of James Pleasant Webb
  3. Hilda Webb, daughter
  4. William Albert Webb Wade, son

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

Life

Milinda B. Webb was born in Alabama in 1865, a daughter of Charles David Webb and Clarrissa Jane Carlisle; the FamilySearch tree gives the year without an attached source.1 The federal census of 1870 lists her as M. B. Webb in the household (the people living together at one address, as the census-taker recorded them) of her father, C. D. Webb, and in 1880 Milinda B. Webb was in her father's household at Soccopatoy, as the census spelled Socapatoy, in Coosa County.2 She was the elder of two daughters in a family that, as a newspaper put it in 1912, "formerly consisted of eight boys and two girls."3

Married life

The tree records no marriage for her, but the report of the Webb family reunion of August 1912 names "the two daughters, Mrs. Linda Davis and Mrs. Mattie Batson," as "now dead."4 Inference Linda is a common short form of Milinda, and since Mattie Batson is the younger sister, Martha, Mrs. Linda Davis is almost certainly Milinda.4 Among those present at the reunion were "Miss Ellen Davis, of Bessemer, and Miss Esther Davis, of Goodwater, granddaughters" of Charles David Webb and his wife.5 Inference Since all eight Webb sons were living and Ellen and Esther bore the name Davis, they were very probably Linda's daughters.5

A second FamilySearch profile, Malinda Webb (LCFL-8T4), records a Malinda Webb as the wife of Joseph C. Davis.6 Inference Malinda Webb, wife of Joseph C. Davis, is very probably the same woman as Milinda B. Webb, and the two profiles should be compared for a merge, which would also bring her husband and daughters back into view.6

Death

Milinda died on 28 May 1907 and was buried the same day at Kellyton Memory Gardens, Kellyton, Coosa County, by the tree's account, which gives neither date a source.7 The only record attached to the death is a Find a Grave memorial indexed as "Melinda Bovine Webb Henderson, 1907".8 The surname Henderson conflicts with the newspaper's "Mrs. Linda Davis."8 Inference She may have married twice, or the memorial's surname may be mistaken; the record in hand does not allow a choice, and the newspaper of 1912, written within the family's memory, is the stronger evidence for Davis.8 What is certain is that she had died by August 1912.4

Documents

  1. 16 August 1912 Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama) · clipping

Places

  1. 1880Soccopatoy
  2. 1907Kellyton Memory Gardens

Timeline

  1. 1865BirthAlabama
  2. 1870ResidenceAlabama
  3. 1880ResidenceSoccopatoy, Coosa, Alabama
  4. 28 May 1907Death
  5. 28 May 1907BurialKellyton Memory Gardens, Kellyton, Coosa, 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 LY3C-MK9: birth 1865, Alabama, no source attached; parents Charles David Webb and Clarrissa Jane Carlisle back to the text
  2. "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, M B Webb in entry for C D Webb, 1870. Record: M B Webb in entry for C D Webb, 1870 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Milinda B. Webb in entry for Charles D. Webb, 1880. Record: Milinda B. Webb in entry for Charles D. Webb, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3C-MK9: residence 1880, Soccopatoy, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  3. Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): The family formerly consist[ed] of eight boys and two [gir]ls. back to the text
  4. Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): The two daughters, [Mrs]. Linda Davis and Mrs [Ma]ttie Batson, are now dead, [but] all of the boys are now [livi]ng FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3C-MSN (their page): Martha C Webb, married J. O. Batson 1902 back to the text
  5. Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): Miss Ellen Davis, of Bessemer, and Miss Esther Davis, of Goodwater, granddaughters back to the text
  6. Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): notes: Joseph C Davis is Linda's husband, not a son back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3C-MK9: death 28 May 1907, no place; burial 28 May 1907, Kellyton Memory Gardens, Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama; no sources attached back to the text
  8. "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Melinda Bovine Webb Henderson, 1907. Record: Melinda Bovine Webb Henderson, Find a Grave Index, 1907 Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): Mrs. Linda Davis back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Milinda B Webb (3)
  1. 1870M B Webb in household of C D Webb, "United States Census, 1870"
  2. 1880Milinda B Webb in household of Charles D Webb, "United States Census, 1880"
  3. 1907Melinda Bovine Webb Henderson, "Find a Grave Index"