Webb, George B.

WEBB, CONWELL

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WEBB, George B.
Farmer, butcher, and stock dealer; P. O. Newton; born in Chambersburg, Illinois, Sept. 5, 1841. Married Mary L. CONWELL in Iowa, in 1866; she was born in Ohio, November, 1851; they had six children, four are living - Forest C., Lillian, Carl, and baby not named; John died at 10 months of age; James M. died at 4 years of age. Has 130 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre. Mr. WEBB enlisted in Co. E, 14th I. V. I., October, 1862; was under Gen. Sherman; was at the battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, was wounded in the head and taken prisoner; was taken to several of the principal prisons in the different Southern States, was held three months and let out on parole of honor, and soon exchanged and returned to his regiment; was in the raid after Gen. Price in Missouri and Meridian expedition. He re-enlisted, was in the battle of Pleasant Hill, and in the ten-days skirmishing while the Alexandria dam was building, and several small engagements, and discharged at the close of the war in 1865. He moved to Iowa in 1858, and has since dealt in live stock, and butchered, and improved his farm. Mr. and Mrs. WEBB are members of M. E. Church, and he is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Lodge of Newton. ~ "Independence Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)