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Document Details
| Title: | Webb, Wesley C. |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage |
| Collection: | Mississippi Oral History Project |
| Description: | Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 2, 1938, Mr. Wesley C. Webb was the only child of Edward Carter and Celien Webb. He attended Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic School in Biloxi, Mississippi. In his home, his mother's mother was the matriarch, and he grew up in a strictly disciplined home and school. After his graduation from high school, Mr. Webb entered the Navy, completing training at Great Lakes, Illinois, and then boarding the U.S.S. Helena for Japan. For two years and nine months, Mr. Webb served in the Navy, and was inactive in the Reserves for six years. Following that, he was in the Merchant Marines. |
| URL: | http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohwebbw.html |
| Original Language: | English |
| Time span: | Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview) |
| Speaker: | Webb, Wesley C., 1938- |
| Speaker gender: | Male |
| Speaker date of birth: | 2-Apr-1938 |
| Speaker place of birth: | Biloxi, MS; Mississippi; United States; North America |
| Speaker occupation: | Military personnel |
| Age at speaking: | 61 |
| Document date: | 05-Nov-1999 |
| Interviewer: | Henderson, William |
| Locations discussed: | Mississippi; North America; United States |
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: | Agriculture; Cities and towns--Mississippi; City and town life--Mississippi; Community; Local history; Mississippi; Mississippi--History; North America; Oral history; United States |
| ASP release: | 2005-06 |
| Document code: | OHI0025742-27669 |