Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren County. AMASA D. WEBB is the sixth of the four sons and three daughters of Amasa and Elizabth (Springer) Webb, and was born January 13, 1819, in Green County, Ky. His parents, about 1802, settled in Green County, where they lived until their deaths; his mother died at the age of ninety- three; her parents came to Kentucky about 1800. Amasa Webb was born in Virginia, of English origin. He was a mechanic, immigrated to Jessamine County, Ky., prior to 1800, and died about 1860, aged eighty-five years. Amasa D. Webb resided on the farm until fourteen years of age, when he went to Bowling Green and engaged as a salesman in a store until 1842. He then went to Independence, Mo., and remained seven years, and three years in Clay, Ray, and Morgan Counties, Mo., engaged in the mercantile business. He returned to Bowling Green in 1852, and engaged in merchandising until 1862; since then he has been employed in the small fruit and nursery business. In 1868 he located on 100 acres on the Nashville pike, two miles east of Bowling Green. He owns fifty acres, thirty-five of which are planted in fruits of all kinds, and form a very valuable property. In July, 1848, he married Eliza Piper, of Warren County, a daughter of Joseph and Elvira (Morehead), the former a native of Logan County and the latter of Allen County. Joseph Piper was a merchant at Russellville. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Webb: Richard E. (Chalmers), Lizzie (Miner), Thomas H., Joseph P. and Hallie (Slayton). Mr. Webb is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the I. O. O. F. and Grange. In politics he is a Democrat, but cast his first presidential vote for Harrison. Mrs. Webb died in January, 1877. Chalmers Miner Morehead Piper Slayton Springer Webb = Allen-KY Clay-MO Green-KY Jessamine-KY Logan-KY Morgan-MO Ray-MO VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/warren/webb.ad.txt