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Thomas H. Webb. In any worthy account of Lonoke’s business interests, mention should not fail to be made of one of the representative commercial factors, Mr. Thomas H. Webb, who is a native of Virginia, born in Pittsylvania County in 1859. His parents, Edmond and Elizabeth (Adams) Webb, were Virginians by birth, where they lived and died. In a family of seven children, Thomas H. is third in order of birth. He remained upon the home farm until he attained his majority, receiving such advantages for an education as obtained, though these, unfortunately, were very limited. In 1859 he emigrated to Tennessee, and, locating in Hardeman County, accepted a position as clerk in a store, in which he afterward became a partner, under the firm name of Webb & Price. He became settled in Memphis in 1862, and for the following three years was in business in that city. Since 1881 he has been a citizen of Lonoke, where he has figured as a leading and influential merchant, becoming well known in commercial affairs. Mr. Webb was married, in 1859, to Miss Emma J. Hamer, a native of Tennessee, and a daughter of Rev. Milton J. Hamer, a pioneer pastor of that State. Mrs. Webb died in 1862, leaving one child, John S., now of Crittenden County, Ark. In 1866 Mr. Webb married Miss Gwinnetta B. Ewell, a native of La Grange, Tenn. She fell a victim to the terrible scourge of yellow fever in 1878, leaving two children, one son and one daughter, the latter becoming the wife of Rev. A. O. Evans, pastor of the Winfield Memorial Church of Little Rock. Mr. Webb was married to his third and present wife in 1879. She was formerly Miss Mary Gray, of Mississippi, daughter of Claudius Gray, and a niece of Rev. J. Gray, a minister in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Webb are both respected members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lonoke, in which he is steward and treasurer. He is Past Dictator in the K. of H., and Past Grand Representative of the A. F. & A. M. Himself and family are held in high esteem, and respected by all who know them.