Caroline Webb Papers, circa 1865-1961

Biography/History

Caroline (Carrie) Frances Turner was born 1883 in Painesville, Missouri to Henry Sanford Turner and Mary E. Blanton. In 1903, she was wed to Andrew Norris Webb from Streator, Illinois and was living in Keokuk, Iowa. Andrew, their only son, was born in 1904. From 1912 to 1930, Caroline Webb and her son Andrew were living in Madison, Wisconsin, seemingly without Andrew Webb Sr., with her parents, Henry and Mary Turner, at 10 North Blount Street. As a youth, Andrew Webb Jr. attended Brayton Grade School and Central High School. Later he was enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as a pre-med student. By 1930, Andrew had been admitted to the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Chicago and his mother was living in Chicago. Andrew was married to Roberta Ernestine Chambers in 1932 and two years later he died of tuberculosis. A few years after losing her son, Caroline’s parents both passed, her mother in January of 1937 and her father in June of the same year. Caroline continued to live in Chicago until 1961, when she returned to Madison. Throughout her time in Chicago, Webb held several civil service jobs. Caroline Webb died on June 13, 1975.