Deeply in love with LQC Webb, although her parents opposed this relationship, they ran away soon after he turned 21 and got married. A little over a year following their marriage, her husband fell ill and died, after which their only son, Lucius Cassius Webb, was born 8 months later. Minnie supported herself and young son by traveling and selling notions throughout the South and Southern Texas, and in 1910 ran a boarding house in Guntown. In her later years she moved temporarily, on one occasion, to be near her daughter-in- law, Lina Anna Schwope Webb, at Helotes, Bexar County, Texas. This probably took place in the mid to late 1920s Apparently, her daughter-in-law and she did not get along well together, and she moved back to either Saltillo or Guntown, Mississippi. No record of her is found in either the 1920 or 1930 censuses. In 1940 she is shown to be making a living as a seamstress.
Her son, who had abandoned his wife, and who was in the U. S. Merchant Marines, sent her money monthly. She bought a small home and tract of land on the southern edge of Guntown, where she was found by her grand daughter, Lucille Martha Webb Johnson, in 1948, they having been lost to each other for over 20 years. It was a very tearful reunion. During the period of time prior to her death, she was also partially supported by a niece, Pauline Gladney Williams Olson.
Minnie's last years were spent at the home of Mrs. Coma Joyner, who, along with her daughter, ran a kind of nursing home. From letters of Maude Weems, it appears that Minnie began to develop dementia during the last years of her life, where she recognized no one and developed behaviors typical of Alzheimer patients such as constantly removing her clothes.
Minnie was an extremely intelligent woman and very self-sufficient. She had an early modest education - through 4th grade as shown in the 1940 census, but became a teacher at the Webb School, founded by her future father-in-law, Robert Anderson Webb, and taught by his handsome eldest son Luicuis Quintus Cassius, along with two of his sisters, Lucy Ivey and Virginia Valeria, but she loved to quote Shakespeare, wrote a very neat hand, and was immensely proud of her heritage and ancestry and contributed beautifully written poems to the Tupelo Daily Journal Newspaper. In her later year or two she suffered from cardio-vascular disease and succumbed to the last of a serious of strokes. She is buried next to her husband in the Saltillo, Mississippi cemetery. A marker was placed on her grave in June 1995 by her grand-daughter, Lucille Webb Johnson.
Contributor: Jan (47435774)
Her son, who had abandoned his wife, and who was in the U. S. Merchant Marines, sent her money monthly. She bought a small home and tract of land on the southern edge of Guntown, where she was found by her grand daughter, Lucille Martha Webb Johnson, in 1948, they having been lost to each other for over 20 years. It was a very tearful reunion. During the period of time prior to her death, she was also partially supported by a niece, Pauline Gladney Williams Olson.
Minnie's last years were spent at the home of Mrs. Coma Joyner, who, along with her daughter, ran a kind of nursing home. From letters of Maude Weems, it appears that Minnie began to develop dementia during the last years of her life, where she recognized no one and developed behaviors typical of Alzheimer patients such as constantly removing her clothes.
Minnie was an extremely intelligent woman and very self-sufficient. She had an early modest education - through 4th grade as shown in the 1940 census, but became a teacher at the Webb School, founded by her future father-in-law, Robert Anderson Webb, and taught by his handsome eldest son Luicuis Quintus Cassius, along with two of his sisters, Lucy Ivey and Virginia Valeria, but she loved to quote Shakespeare, wrote a very neat hand, and was immensely proud of her heritage and ancestry and contributed beautifully written poems to the Tupelo Daily Journal Newspaper. In her later year or two she suffered from cardio-vascular disease and succumbed to the last of a serious of strokes. She is buried next to her husband in the Saltillo, Mississippi cemetery. A marker was placed on her grave in June 1995 by her grand-daughter, Lucille Webb Johnson.
Contributor: Jan (47435774)
Deeply in love with LQC Webb, although her parents opposed this relationship, they ran away soon after he turned 21 and got married. A little over a year following their marriage, her husband fell ill and died, after which their only son, Lucius Cassius Webb, was born 8 months later. Minnie supported herself and young son by traveling and selling notions throughout the South and Southern Texas, and in 1910 ran a boarding house in Guntown. In her later years she moved temporarily, on one occasion, to be near her daughter-in- law, Lina Anna Schwope Webb, at Helotes, Bexar County, Texas. This probably took place in the mid to late 1920s Apparently, her daughter-in-law and she did not get along well together, and she moved back to either Saltillo or Guntown, Mississippi. No record of her is found in either the 1920 or 1930 censuses. In 1940 she is shown to be making a living as a seamstress.
Her son, who had abandoned his wife, and who was in the U. S. Merchant Marines, sent her money monthly. She bought a small home and tract of land on the southern edge of Guntown, where she was found by her grand daughter, Lucille Martha Webb Johnson, in 1948, they having been lost to each other for over 20 years. It was a very tearful reunion. During the period of time prior to her death, she was also partially supported by a niece, Pauline Gladney Williams Olson.
Minnie's last years were spent at the home of Mrs. Coma Joyner, who, along with her daughter, ran a kind of nursing home. From letters of Maude Weems, it appears that Minnie began to develop dementia during the last years of her life, where she recognized no one and developed behaviors typical of Alzheimer patients such as constantly removing her clothes.
Minnie was an extremely intelligent woman and very self-sufficient. She had an early modest education - through 4th grade as shown in the 1940 census, but became a teacher at the Webb School, founded by her future father-in-law, Robert Anderson Webb, and taught by his handsome eldest son Luicuis Quintus Cassius, along with two of his sisters, Lucy Ivey and Virginia Valeria, but she loved to quote Shakespeare, wrote a very neat hand, and was immensely proud of her heritage and ancestry and contributed beautifully written poems to the Tupelo Daily Journal Newspaper. In her later year or two she suffered from cardio-vascular disease and succumbed to the last of a serious of strokes. She is buried next to her husband in the Saltillo, Mississippi cemetery. A marker was placed on her grave in June 1995 by her grand-daughter, Lucille Webb Johnson.
Contributor: Jan (47435774)
Her son, who had abandoned his wife, and who was in the U. S. Merchant Marines, sent her money monthly. She bought a small home and tract of land on the southern edge of Guntown, where she was found by her grand daughter, Lucille Martha Webb Johnson, in 1948, they having been lost to each other for over 20 years. It was a very tearful reunion. During the period of time prior to her death, she was also partially supported by a niece, Pauline Gladney Williams Olson.
Minnie's last years were spent at the home of Mrs. Coma Joyner, who, along with her daughter, ran a kind of nursing home. From letters of Maude Weems, it appears that Minnie began to develop dementia during the last years of her life, where she recognized no one and developed behaviors typical of Alzheimer patients such as constantly removing her clothes.
Minnie was an extremely intelligent woman and very self-sufficient. She had an early modest education - through 4th grade as shown in the 1940 census, but became a teacher at the Webb School, founded by her future father-in-law, Robert Anderson Webb, and taught by his handsome eldest son Luicuis Quintus Cassius, along with two of his sisters, Lucy Ivey and Virginia Valeria, but she loved to quote Shakespeare, wrote a very neat hand, and was immensely proud of her heritage and ancestry and contributed beautifully written poems to the Tupelo Daily Journal Newspaper. In her later year or two she suffered from cardio-vascular disease and succumbed to the last of a serious of strokes. She is buried next to her husband in the Saltillo, Mississippi cemetery. A marker was placed on her grave in June 1995 by her grand-daughter, Lucille Webb Johnson.
Contributor: Jan (47435774)
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WEBB
MINNIE CHERRY
Beloved Wife of
L. Q. C. Webb
NOV 1 1870 - MAY 16 1957
LOVE IS ETERNAL
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