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- Frank Webb was born in Wilmington, Will County, Illinois, Feb. 24th, 1856, and passed away in Wesley Hospital, Wichita, Kansas, July 28th, 1936. Age 80 past.
At the age of sixteen he came to Kansas with his parents to a prairie claim four miles south of where Moline now stands. The home place was a part of the townsite of the little town of Old Boston.
After the Railroad was built and Moline started, the family moved to Moline where he has been engaged in the milling and stockraising business ever since.
He leaves to mourn his going his wife, Mrs. Clara Webb, four sisters, Mrs. Anna Baker of Independence, Kansas; Mrs. Maud Prier and Mrs. Metta Durbin of Moline; Mrs. Florence Wammacks of Buffalo, Oklahoma. His parents and one brother, J. J. Webb of Howard, and two sisters preceded him in death.
A number of nieces and nephews and other relatives survive. He united with the First Methodist Episcopal early in life and has been a faithful member ever since. He had a wide circle of friends by whom he will be greatly missed.
Relatives from a distance who were here for funeral of Mr. Webb, included his sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Baker of Independence. His nephew, Ted Hibbard of Sonora, California who will spend some time with his mother, Mrs. Prier, also a niece, Miss ____Prier of Wichita who was his nurse at the hospital, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Karstens and daugther Elinor of Kansas City, Missouri.
(This article taken from the book: ELK COUNTY A Narrative History of Elk County and its People copyright 1979.)
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