Dr. Tobias Turner Webb
1879 - 1933
Photo taken at East Point, Kentucky prior to their marriage
On Christmas Day, 1899, Tobias Turner Webb married Hattie Spradlin, the daughter of James Spradlin and Laura Brown Spradlin. After the death of their son, Gervase, Tobe resigned from his teaching career and enrolled in Louisville Medical School. He graduated about 1909. He had studied so hard while in school he was very run down, and went back to the farm at East Point to rest and recuperate. In 1909 Dr. Webb and Hattie bought a house in Laynesville where he set up his first medical practice. The house they purchased was an old one. The kitchen and dining room were downstairs in the basement where the walls were lined with rock. There were two rooms on the ground floor. They added a room to the side of the house for his doctor's office. At one time Dr. Tobe Vaughan, a dentist, had his office in the front room of the house. Later a kitchen and dining room were added to back of the house and the basement kitchen was abandoned.
Dr. Webb was hired by the Elkhorn Coal Company as the company doctor. He then moved to Estill, Kentucky were he worked under another doctor. He also served as a coal company doctor in Wayland, Kentucky and Garrett, Kentucky in 1915 and Wheelwright, Kentucky and Weeksbury, Kentucky in 1932. He also worked with Dr. Prichard at Harold, Kentucky. Dr. Webb made his house calls on horseback.
About 1900, Dr. Webb served as Master of East Point Lodge 657 F&AM . Later in life, he also served as Master of the Wheelwright Lodge.
In 1933, the house in Laynesville was torn down and a new one built in its place. It was completed about six months before Dr. Webb's death. His funeral was held at the Austin chapel in Laynesville with interment in the Webb Family Cemetery at East Point, Kentucky. Hattie Webb Ridgway
They were the parents of:
1. Gervase Webb who died at age 4.
2. Wilbur Turner Webb
3. Dora Lenore Webb
4.Virgil Alonzo Webb
5. Tobe Webb who died at birth