Thomas Oliver Webb
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister
[son of: David Webb and Jane "Mollie" Moss]
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born: 4 March 1833 - Alabama
died: 4 January 1915 - Lawrenceburg, Lawrence County, Tennessee
buried: Mimosa Cemetery - Lawrence County, Tennessee
1850 Census - Humphreys County, Tennessee [age 16 with parents David and Jane Webb]
1880 Census - Houston County, Tennessee [District 6]
married: c1862
wife: Malvina "Frances" Wrenn
[daughter of Peter Wrenn and Clary Sparkman of Hickman County, Tennessee]
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1860 Census - Hickman County, Tennessee [Malvina Wrenn, age 17, District 6, dwelling #960 with parents Peter Wrenn and Clara Wrenn]
born: 20 November 1842
died: 14 January 1897 - South Trenton, Gibson County, Tennessee
buried:

Children of Thomas Oliver Webb and Malvina Frances Wrenn:

1. Lula Webb
born: c1863 - Tennessee
died: 1945-1950 - Eastern Star Retirement Home - Arlington, Texas
never married

2. Lawrance A. Webb
born: 1865 - Tennessee
died: 12 April 1883 - Tennessee
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3. Rev. B. Wrenn Webb
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister
Presbyterian Minister
born: c1865 - Tennessee
died: 1945 - Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
buried: Tucson Memorial Park South Lawn Cemetery - Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
wife: Laura Watts

Children of Rev. B. Wrenn Webb and Laura Watts:

3.1. Rebecca Frances Webb
husband: C. Ello Myers

3.2. B. Wrenn Webb, Jr.
graduated - University of Arizona, 5 June 1919

4. Walter R. Webb
physician - graduated in 1900 - Nashville, Tennessee
born: c1871
lived in Hampshire, Tennessee
died: after 1946

5. Eula May Webb
born: 12 February 1873 - Tennessee
died: 2 January 1946 - Huntington, West Virginia
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buried: Omega Farm, Yellow Creek, Vanleer, Houston County, Tennessee
married: 26 October 1896 - Houston County, Tennessee
husband: Joseph Johnson Skelton
[son of James Morris Skelton and Lenora Shelton]
born: 3 March 1868 - Dickson County, Tennessee [later Houston County, Tennessee]
died: 10 December 1953 - Marshall County, Kentucky
buried: Omega Farm, Yellow Creek, Vanleer, Houston County, Tennessee

Children of Joseph Johnson Skelton and Eula May Webb:

5.1. Vina May Skelton
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born: 27 September 1897 - Houston County, Tennessee
died: 18 January 1919 - Houston County, Tennessee
buried: Omega Farm, Yellow Creek, Vanleer, Houston County, Tennessee
never married

5.2. John Manley Skelton
born: 19 May 1899 - Houston County, Tennessee
died: 27 February 1901 - Houston County, Tennessee
buried: Omega Farm, Yellow Creek, Vanleer, Houston County, Tennessee

5.3. Daisy Loula Skelton
born: 22 November 1901 - Houston County, Tennessee
died: August 1986 - Nashville, Tennessee
buried: Woodlawn Cemetery - Davidson County, Tennessee
husband: Hubert V. Daniel
[son of Dr. W. H. Daniel and Fredonia Slayden of Humphreys County, Tennessee]
born: 22 July 1902
died: 18 October 1999 - Nashville, Tennessee
buried: Woodlawn Cemetery - Davidson County, Tennessee

5.4. Mary Morris Skelton
born: 17 September 1904 - Houston County, Tennessee
died:
buried: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1st husband: ? Toomey
2nd husband: Collins Tuttle
buried: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

5.5. Joseph ("Jack") Webb Skelton
born: 8 January 1907 - Houston County, Tennessee
died: 10 February 1993 - Calloway County, Kentucky
buried: Omega Farm, Yellow Creek, Vanleer, Houston County, Tennessee
wife: Ruby Ernestine Flora
[daughter of Martin Lloyd Flora & Arah Smith]
born: 26 October 1921 - Marshall County, Kentucky
died: 16 February 1999 - Calloway County, Kentucky
buried: Omega Farm, Yellow Creek, Vanleer, Houston County, Tennessee

5.6. Lenora Frances Skelton
born: 17 September 1912 - Houston County, Tennessee
died: 28 July 1989 - Dickson County, Tennessee
buried: Keele Farm on Cedar Creek, Vanleer, Dickson County, Tennessee
married: 21 February 1930
husband: William Hadie Keele
[son of Charlie Keele and Lilly Adams]
born: 11 February 1909 - Dickson County, Tennessee
died: 22 July 1982 - Dickson County, Tennessee
buried: Keele Farm on Cedar Creek, Vanleer, Dickson County, Tennessee

Webb.--The Rev. Thomas Oliver Webb was one of the first preachers I ever knew. Uncle James A. Parish was the first. When Brother Webb was a young man my father's house was his home when he chose to make it such. Brother Webb, John A. Dunlop, Bob Dunlop and Mathew M. Mass, all young ministers of the old Ahorlott [sic: Charlotte] Presbytery, found a welcome at my father's house. My mother said she would show more favors to Brother Webb because he needed more encouragement and sympathy than the others. She said he had the elements of a great man in him. I remember he went away and was gone for some years. I think it was during the civil war. I recall the day he returned. Dr. M.V. Turner had returned from the army and was at our house. My father was on his death bed. We were all so glad to see Brother Webb. I remember how he had grown in tenderness and sympathy. I recall how earnestly and tenderly he prayed in our house on that day. The war soon closed after this day. My father died. The struggle began in our broken up home. Brother Webb made it a point to come and see us and brag on us boys and speak words of encouragement to our heartbroken and fortune-broken family. He was present when I put myself under the care of the presbytery as a candidate for the ministry. After the presbytery had a recess Brother Webb took me to one side and told me that he and my mother had often talked about and prayed over me and hoped that I would become a minister in my father's church. To which he was so profoundly devoted. he said, "I have faith in you, call on me when you get into trouble which will come." He was a great friend to the young preachers and loved to see them advance. He was a man of strong intellect and fixed in his opinions. He did a great work in the old Charlotte Presbytery, and was loved in hundreds and hundreds of homes. In the death of Brother Webb the last man who composed the Charlotte Presbytery at the time I went under its care is gone. I recall the gravity and solemnity of the occasion. A.A. Wilson was moderator, John McClurkin was stated clerk. Then there were A. J. Parish, A.C. Stockard, A.W. Taylor, A.G. Shelton, Newt Larkins, W. M. Cooley, D. D. Cooley, Elisha Deason and S.H. Holmes, all gone to their reward. Myself and the Rev. R.W. Binkley, D.D., are the only men now living who were in that old presbytery at the time of which I write. Brother Webb married the daughter of Uncle Peter Wren, the Abraham of Hickman County, Tennessee. She was a splendid woman, and Brother Webb had a model home; one of culture and refinement, and so out of this home has gone our Brother Wren Webb, of Texas. The time would fail me to tell of the many good things I know of Brother Webb and his work. And now will you allow me to place a rose on his memory that may not fade away, but bloom on till we meet beyond the river?      D.T. Waynick.
[Source: The Presbyterian Advance, 1915]

The wife of Rev. T.O. Webb, of Trenton, Tenn., died Jan. 13. Mr. and Mrs. Webb had only lately moved to their new field from Omega. Our tenderest sympathies are with the sorrowing husband and family. Rev. B. Wrenn Webb, now in Chicago University, is a son of the deceased.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, January 21, 1897, page 943]

Mrs. Webb, wife of Rev. T.O. Webb, died at their home in South Trenton Wednesday. Funeral services were held at the C.P. church Thursday by Rev. W.G. Leonard, of Dyer. Mrs. Webb had been a citizen of Trenton but a short time, but to know her was but to love her. The Journal extends sympathies to the bereaved family.
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WEBB--Died, April 12, 1883, Lawrance A., son of Rev. T. O., and M. F. Webb, aged 18 years and 8 days.

He was a pupil of Cloverdale Seminary, and by a consistent, moral, and Christian deportment had won the confidence and respect of his teachers and fellow-students. He had been a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for near three years, and had the confidence of the Church and community in which he lived, which was envinced by the large number that attended his funeral, which was conducted by the writer on the 13th ult. To his parents we would say, He is not lost, but gone before.
A. J. PARRISH.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, May 3, 1883, page 3]

Never did a pall of sadness and gloom of deeper interest fall over our community than when it was announced that Miss May Vina Skelton had passed to the great beyond. She had been sick about twelve days. She had been teaching school near Vanleer, Tenn., and was boarding with a primitive Baptist minister, Rev. Allen Seals, who was sick with the "flu" before and while she was. It soon developed into acute pneumonia, so that she would not be moved to her own sweet home, which was five or six miles from where she was sick. Her father and mother came at once to her bedside and ministered to her every want and desire as much as the most devoted parents could. So did the family she was with and the devoted Christian women of the community and the physician, Dr. A.C. Dickson, who was with her day and night; but all that the skillful doctor, love, sympathy, and prayer could do did not prolong her sweet live. It was our Father's will to take her to himself, to be free from the sufferings to which all are subject to. She died January 18, 1919, aged twenty-one years. She professed religion in a Methodist revival near home in 1914 and said she intended to join the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, as that was her mother's Church and the one to which most of her relatives on both sides belonged. Her grandfather, Rev. T.O. Webb, was for fifty years or more a devoted minister in that Church. She died shouting the praises of God. I am seventy-four years old and have been a follower of Christ for fifty-three years, and I never knew a sweeter, purer, more lovely girl in my life. I know there is a heaven and am as sure Vina is there. She leaves a father, mother, three younger sisters, a little brother, and her grandparents to mourn their loss. God bless and sustain all.--Rev. W.T. Nesbitt
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Funeral services for Mrs. Eula May Webb Skelton, 72, who died Wednesday Morning, January 2, 1946 in St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia, were held Friday Afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Bethany [Cumberland] Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member. Conducted by the Rev. Carl Davis, with burial in the family cemetery in Houston Co., Tn. Surviving are husband, Joseph J. Skelton; one sister, Miss Lula Webb of Houston, Tx.; two brothers, Dr. W.R. Webb of Hampton, Tn. and Dr. B.W. Webb of Tuscon, Arizona; three daughters, Mrs. Hubert V. Daniel of Huntington, West Va., Mrs. Mary S. Toomey of Chester, Pa. and Mrs. W.H. Keele of Vanleer, Tn.; one brother, J.W. Skelton of Calvert City, Ky.; six grandchildren and two great grand children.
[Source; Dickson County Herald, January, 1946]