Wade & Webb Family History

Charles David Webb1839–1923

Georgia · Meriwether · Alabama · Soccopatoy

Born in Georgia in 1839, Charles David Webb came with his father's family to Coosa County, Alabama, and in August 1860 married Clarrissa J. Carlisle there. They raised eight sons and two daughters at their homestead near Kellyton, and in August 1912 their descendants, four generations of them, gathered there for a reunion. He died in January 1923, and his wife in March of the same year.

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. 1839 Georgia

Marriages

  1. 30 Aug 1860 Clarrissa Jane Carlisle, at Coosa, Alabama 5

Death and burial

  1. 1923 Burial: Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama
  2. 30 Jan 1923 Death: place not recorded 15

Family

Parents
Charles Hackett Webb 1802–1876
Malinda Bailey 1807–1882
Spouse, 30 Aug 1860
Clarrissa Jane Carlisle 1840–1923
Children
Charles William Webb 1867–1937
James Pleasant Webb 1869–1965
Thomas J Webb 1862–1932
Martha C Webb 1879–1904
Robert Edwin Webb 1863–1932
Joel Franklin Webb 1871–1957
John Osceola Webb 1882–1951
Reuben David Webb 1876–1956
Milinda B Webb 1865–1907

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Charles David Webb
  2. James Pleasant Webb, son
  3. Hilda Webb, daughter
  4. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Charles David Webb was born in Georgia in 1839, a son of Charles Hackett Webb and Malinda Bailey; the FamilySearch tree gives the year and state without an attached source.1 A newspaper report of August 1912 gives his age then as 73, which agrees with the year.2 The federal census of 1850 lists Charles D. Webb in the household of his father, indexed as "Charels Webb," in Meriwether County, Georgia.3 By 1860 the family had moved west to Alabama: the census of that year lists him, still in his father's household, in the 2nd Subdivision of Coosa County.4 His brother William M. Webb was alive in 1912.2

Marriage and family

On 30 August 1860, in Coosa County, he married Clarrissa J. Carlisle.5 She had been born in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, on 13 March 1840, a daughter of Robert Whatley Carlisle and Clarissa Ann Mitchell Owens, and the 1912 report names her brother John Bunyan Carlisle of Mount Olive and her sister Mrs. Mary Suttle of Rockford.6

The couple had ten children, eight sons and two daughters.7 The tree names the sons as Thomas J. (born 1862), Robert Edwin (1863), Charles William (1867), James Pleasant (1869), Joel Franklin (1871), Mitchell Carlisle (1874), Reuben David (1876) and John Osceola (1882), and the daughters as Milinda B. (1865) and Martha C. (1879).8 The 1912 report calls the daughters "Mrs. Linda Davis and Mrs. Mattie Batson," both by then dead, and gives Robert Edwin as "Robin Edmond Webb."7 Many of the children's own records later named him as their father: the Alabama death records of Robin Edwin Webb and T. J. Webb in 1932, of John Osceola Webb in 1951 and of James P. Webb in 1965, the Louisiana death record of Joel Franklin Webb in 1957, and the marriage record of James Pleasant Webb and Margaret Blanche Kincaid in 1939.9

Socapatoy and Kellyton

The census of 1870 places the household in Alabama, and those of 1880 and 1900 at Socapatoy (spelled "Soccopatoy" in 1880), in Coosa County.10 The tree records his father's burial in 1876 in the Webb Family Cemetery at Kellyton, Coosa County.11

On a Saturday in August 1912 the "many descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Charles David Webb" assembled "once more around the old homestead" near Kellyton, as the Alexander City Outlook reported on 16 August.2 The couple were then 73 and 71; all eight sons were living and married and, the paper said, "scattered throughout the State," and the family numbered forty-eight, in four generations.2 All the sons came except Charles William Webb of Goodwater, who was ill and was represented by his wife and four children; the others came from Alexander City, Kellyton, Birmingham, Auburn and Waverly, among them James Pleasant Webb of Birmingham with his wife and three children, Walden, Palmer and Hilda.12 Two granddaughters, Ellen and Esther Davis, came from Bessemer and Goodwater.12 Among the friends present was Miss Bettie Spivey, "who was the first teacher of many of the older boys"; the Rev. D. M. Jenkins made "a happy speech of felicitation," and R. D. Webb, styled "Prof.", John C. Webb, R. E. Webb and Joel F. Webb replied for the family.13 [The clipping's "last [Sat]urday" is partly cut off, but read so it places the reunion on Saturday 10 August 1912.]{.inference}13

Last years

The federal census of 1920 lists Charles D. Webb at Socapatoy in the household of his son Robin E. Webb.14 He died on 30 January 1923, and his death is indexed in the Alabama death records of that year.15 He was buried at Kellyton, Coosa County, where his grave is recorded in the Find a Grave and BillionGraves indexes.16 His wife Clarrissa died at Kellyton on 14 March 1923, and her Alabama death record, which indexes her as Clara Jane Webb, names him as her husband.17

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. 1850Meriwether
  2. 1860–1880Coosa
  3. 1900Coosa
  4. 1920Socapatoy
  5. 1923Kellyton

Timeline

  1. 1839BirthGeorgia
  2. 1850ResidenceMeriwether county, Meriwether, Georgia
  3. 1860Residence2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama
  4. 30 Aug 1860Marriage, Clarrissa Jane CarlisleCoosa, Alabama
  5. 1870ResidenceAlabama
  6. 1880ResidenceSoccopatoy, Coosa, Alabama
  7. 1900ResidencePrecinct 3 Socapatoy, Coosa, Alabama
  8. 1920ResidenceSocapatoy, Coosa, Alabama
  9. 1923BurialKellyton, Coosa, Alabama
  10. 30 Jan 1923Death

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. 2026-11-08Correction made in FamilySearch by MattMatt detached Joseph C Davis as a child in FamilySearch (he was the husband of daughter Linda, per the 1912 reunion article).
  3. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Charles Webb, b. 1839 ±3, d. 1923 ±3: 10 resultsbest: [Charles Clayton Webb (10 May 1836 – 28 Jul 1924), Newmarket Cemetery, Newmarket, York Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113912717/charles-clayton-webb); score 8 (high, before review)
  4. 2026-11-09Assessment of the Find a Grave batch candidates (2026-11-09)Rejected: Charles Clayton Webb (1836-1924), Newmarket, Ontario. No memorial recorded.
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Charles David Webb", Alabama25 pages; first: [New poems by American poets, 1953, p. ](https://archive.org/details/newpoemsbyameric00ball?q=%22Charles%20David%20Webb%22); [new poems, 1957, p. ](https://archive.org/details/newpoems0000unse_w1a8?q=%22Charles%20David%20Webb%22); [New Poems by American poets, 1970, p. ](https://archive.org/details/newpoemsbyameric0000unse?q=%22Charles%20David%20Webb%22)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Charles Webb", Alabama9815 pages; first: [The last gunfighter : John Wesley Hardin, 1995, p. ](https://archive.org/details/lastgunfighterjo0000maro?q=%22Charles%20Webb%22); [2019 The Elba Clipper Jan 3 2019 Through Dec 26 2019, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/2019-12-19?q=%22Charles%20Webb%22); [Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Missouri, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/registerofsocie190709sons?q=%22Charles%20Webb%22)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Webb", inside histcoosacobrew2 pages; first: [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 179](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n179/mode/1up?q=Webb); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 193](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n193/mode/1up?q=Webb); 1 with the given name (Charles, David)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Webb", inside memorialrecordof00tayl14 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. 61](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n61/mode/1up?q=Webb); [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. 168](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n168/mode/1up?q=Webb); [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. 175](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n175/mode/1up?q=Webb); 0 with the given name (Charles, David)
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Webb", inside northernalabamah00birm13 pages; first: [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 398](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n398/mode/1up?q=Webb); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 46](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n46/mode/1up?q=Webb); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 391](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n391/mode/1up?q=Webb); 1 with the given name (Charles, David)
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Webb", inside historyofalabama01owen25 pages; first: [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 141](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n141/mode/1up?q=Webb); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 166](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n166/mode/1up?q=Webb); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 694](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n694/mode/1up?q=Webb); 3 with the given name (Charles, David)
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Charles David Webb", "Charles Webb", AlabamaNot him: "Charles David Webb" hits are a poet born in West Virginia in 1935, an Indiana marriage of 1956 and a London tobacconist of 1881; "Charles Webb" gives namesakes only; the phrase is too common for its first hits to be him, and no hit names his place or family.
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Webb" inside the Coosa history, *Memorial Record*, *Northern Alabama*, Owen vol. 1No Charles D.: the Coosa history's "Mr. Webb" storekeeper near Kellyton (p. 87) and "Mr. Webb" near Rockford (p. 94) are unnamed and not identified with him.
  13. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 6 searchesNo match. No record written.
  14. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Charles David Webb"no matches
  15. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Charles Webb", Alabamano matches
  16. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 2 searchesNo hits; nothing to assess.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: birth 1839, Georgia, no source attached; parents Charles Hackett Webb and Malinda Bailey back to the text
  2. Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): This couple, who are 73 and 71 years of age respectively ... Other relatives present were Mr. and Mrs. William M. Webb, brother and sister [-in-law] of Mr. C. D. Webb ... the members of the family now number forty-eight, including four generations; the sons, all of whom are married, are scattered throughout the State back to the text
  3. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Charles D Webb in entry for Charels Webb, 1850. Record: Charles D Webb in entry for Charels Webb, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: residence 1850, Meriwether County, Georgia back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Charles D Webb in entry for Charles H Webb, 1860. Record: Charles D Webb in entry for Charles H Webb, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: residence 1860, 2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  5. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Charles D. Webb and Clarrissa J. Carlisle, 30 Aug 1860. Record: Charles D. Webb and Clarrissa J. Carlisle, 30 Aug 1860 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Charles D. Webb, 30 Aug 1860. Record: Charles D. Webb, Alabama Marriages, 30 Aug 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: marriage 30 Aug 1860, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-LHF (their page): born 13 Mar 1840, Tallapoosa, Alabama; parents Robert Whatley Carlisle and Clarissa Ann Mitchell Owens Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): Mr. and Mrs. John Bunyan Carlisle, Mt. Olive, Ala., brother and sister of Mrs. C. D. Webb ... Mrs. Mary Suttle, Rockford, Ala., sister of Mrs. C. D. Webb back to the text
  7. Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): the family formerly consisted of eight boys and two girls; the two daughters, Mrs. Linda Davis and Mrs Mattie Batson, are now dead, but all of the boys are now living ... Robin Edmond Webb and wife back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: children Thomas J (1862), Robert Edwin (1863), Milinda B (1865), Charles William (1867), James Pleasant (1869), Joel Franklin (1871), Mitchell Carlisle (1874), Reuben David (1876), Martha C (1879), John Osceola (1882) back to the text
  9. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, C D Webb in entry for Robin Edwin Webb, 1932. Record: C D Webb in entry for Robin Edwin Webb, 1932 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Charly Webb in entry for T. J. Webb, 1932. Record: Charly Webb in entry for T. J. Webb, 1932 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Charles Webb in entry for John Oseeola Webb, 1951. Record: Charles Webb in entry for John Oseeola Webb, 1951 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Charles Webb in entry for James P. Webb, 1965. Record: Charles Webb in entry for James P. Webb, 1965 "Louisiana, Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960", FamilySearch, Charles David Webb in entry for Joel Franklin Webb, 04 Oct 1957. Record: Charles David Webb in entry for Joel Franklin Webb, 04 Oct 1957 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Charles David Webb in entry for James Pleasant Webb and Margaret Blanche Kincaid, 10 Mar 1939. Record: Charles David Webb in entry for James Pleasant Webb and Margaret Blanche Kincaid, 10 Mar 1939 back to the text
  10. "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, C D Webb, 1870. Record: C D Webb, 1870 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Charles D. Webb, 1880. Record: Charles D. Webb, 1880 "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, Charles D Webb, 1900. Record: Charles D Webb, 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: residence 1870, Alabama; 1880, Soccopatoy, Coosa; 1900, Precinct 3 Socapatoy, Coosa back to the text
  11. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K64Q-FQQ (their page): burial 1876, Webb Family Cemetery, Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  12. Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): All of them were present excepting Charles William Webb, of Goodwater, who was kept away by illness. He was represented by his wife and four children ... Thomas Jefferson Webb and wife, Alexander City ... Robin Edmond Webb ... Kellyton ... James Pleasant Webb and wife and their three children, Walden, Palmer and Hilda, Birmingham ... Reuben David Webb ... Auburn ... John Osceola Webb ... Waverly ... Miss Ellen Davis, of Bessemer, and Miss Esther Davis, of Goodwater, granddaughters back to the text
  13. Webb Family Reunion: Together at Old Homestead Near Kellyton—Four Generations Represented, The Alexander City Outlook (Alexander City, Alabama): Miss Bettie Spivey, who was the first teacher of many of the older boys. Rev. D. M. Jenkins made a happy speech of felicitation ... replied to by Prof. R. D. Webb and Messrs. John C. Webb, R. E. Webb and Joel F. Webb; notes: last [Sat]urday puts the reunion on Saturday 10 August 1912 back to the text
  14. "United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch, Charles D Webb in entry for Robbin E V Webb, 1920. Record: Charles D Webb in entry for Robbin E V Webb, 1920 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: residence 1920, Socapatoy, Coosa back to the text
  15. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: death 30 Jan 1923 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Charles David Webb, 1923. Record: Charles David Webb, Alabama Deaths, 1923 back to the text
  16. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-JBN: burial 1923, Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Charles David Webb, 1923. Record: Charles David Webb, Find a Grave Index, 1923 "BillionGraves Index", FamilySearch, Charles David Webb. Record: Charles David Webb, BillionGraves Index back to the text
  17. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY3H-LHF (their page): died 14 Mar 1923, Kellyton, Coosa, Alabama "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Charles David Webb in entry for Clara Jane Webb, 1923. Record: Charles David Webb in entry for Clara Jane Webb, 1923 back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Charles David Webb (22)
  1. 1850Charles D Webb, "United States, Census, 1850"
  2. 1860Charles D Webb, "United States, Census, 1860"
  3. 30 Aug 1860Charles D. Webb, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  4. 30 Aug 1860Charles D. Webb, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 1860Charles D. Webb, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  6. 1860Charles D. Webb, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  7. 1870C D Webb, "United States Census, 1870"
  8. 1880Charles D Webb, "United States Census, 1880"
  9. 1900Charles D Webb, "United States Census, 1900"
  10. 1920Charles D Webb in household of Robbin E V Webb, "United States Census, 1920"
  11. 1923Charles David Webb in entry for Clara Jane Webb, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
  12. 1923Charles David Webb, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  13. 1923Charles David Webb, "Find a Grave Index"
  14. 1932C D Webb in entry for Robin Edwin Webb, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
  15. 1932Charly Webb in entry for T. J. Webb, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
  16. 10 Mar 1939Charles David Webb in entry for James Pleasant Webb and Margaret Blanche Kincaid, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  17. 10 Mar 1939Charles David Webb, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  18. 1951Charles Webb in entry for John Oseeola Webb, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
  19. 04 Oct 1957Charles David Webb in entry for Joel Franklin Webb, "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960"
  20. 1965Charles Webb in entry for James P. Webb, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
  21. Charles David Webb, "BillionGraves Index"
  22. 30 Aug 1860Entry for Charles D. Webb and Clarrissa J. Carlisle, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"