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Show Charles Webb To Be Honored On 80th Birthday In honor of the eightieth birthday anniversary of Charles Webb, open house will be held Saturday, March 11, at the home of his brother-in- law, John Jacklin, at 364 North Third West street. Open house will be held all day, and in the evening a musical program pro-gram and other entertainment will be given. No personal invitations are being mailed, but a cordial invitation invita-tion is issued to all who would like to greet Mr. Webb on this occasion. Mr. Webb's birthday anniversary is Friday, March 10. He was born in 1859, a son of Thomas and Sarah Hunt Webb, at Littlington, Cambridgeshire, Cam-bridgeshire, England. He was the youngest child in a family of 11 children. When Charles was 15 years old he, with his parents and his brother Wilford, decided to come to America. Ameri-ca. On June 9, 1874, they set sail. His sister Hannah had emigrated some time before. When the family arrived in Salt Lake the L. D. S. church presidency asked them to go with others to the southern part of the territory and help settle that section. The journey jour-ney was very hard and tedious. In one place the wagon had to be tied with ropes and lowered over the rocks, at a steep slope. The family built a small home and began farming at St. George. Charles assisted his parents on the farm and when construction of the St. George temple began he volunteered volun-teered his services and spent many days helping to build that structure. He was one of the first to go through the temple. After his father and mother died, Charles and his brother Wilford moved to Price and took up some farm land across the river. About this time Wilford was married to Ruth Jacklin of American Fork. He took his wife to his farm in Price to live. The following summer Ruth's sister Sarah Lucy came to visit with her. It was during this visit that Charles Webb became acquainted with the girl who later became his wife. Late in November Charles Webb and Sarah Lucy Jacklin in company with another young couple started to St. George to be married. Traveling Travel-ing in a covered wagon, they arrived in a week. They were married in the St. George Temple on December 1, 1887. The first year after they were married they lived on the farm in Price, then Wilford and Charles and their wives moved to American Fork and worked some rented farms. In the fall of 1889 the two families moved to Riverton and rented farm land. Soon afterward Charles accepted ac-cepted a call to the Oklahoma and Texas mission field. While he was filling this mission his young wife took care of their farm and supplied him the necessary finance to carry on his work. As a young man Charles was a gifted smger, and he loved to use this ability whenever he could, and for many j ears he sang in the ward choir and other choruses. He has always been a faithful church worker. work-er. Although they had no children of their own, the Webbs gave a nunrber of children a happy and comfortable home. In the summer of 1895 they neara of a young girl who had joined join-ed the Mormon church in Tennessee, and whose family had turned against her. Charles and his wife sent her the money to come to Utah, and when she arrived took her to live with them. From then until the time of her death in 1922 Charles treated this girl as his own daughter. Some years later, children of his brother Wilford came to work for him and lived in his home. In 1908 when Sarah Lucy's sister, Ellen, died, leaving three children, two of them found a home with the Webbs. Later the other child also went to live with them. After a long illness Sarah Lucy Webb died on August 27, 1916, at their home in Riverton. In October, 1917, Charles married Laura McBride Carr, a widow with five children. Laura was the daughter of E. E. McBride of American Ameri-can Fork. She died in 1927. In February, 1928, Charles sold his farm in Riverton to his nephew, Vernal C. Webb. Since that time he has traveled by auto a great deal ana many of his relatives throughout through-out Utah and in Canada have shared shar-ed this pleasure with him. In his travels he has gone from Canada to Mexico and from California Cali-fornia to Chicago. He still enjoys good health and loves to viiit and chat with relatives and friends. He is living at 230 West Second South street, Cozy apartments, xtoora 12, Salt Lake City, where he does his own housekeeping. |