On September 25, 1830, Mary Ann (Hudspeth) Webb (ca 1772-1842) used proceeds from the sale of her North Carolina land holdings to buy 200 acres in Overton County on the east side of the Obed River, about 1 1/2 miles upriver from the present Dale Hollow Dam, an area now submerged by Dale Hollow Lake. Mary Ann and her three sons, Hudspeth, Giles, and Daniel, lived there along the Obed River, and when she died in 1842 her sons buried her in the garden beside her house. The 200 acres were then divided among the three sons, with Hudspeth receiving 120 acres, Giles W. receiving 80 acres on the southwest corner adjoining the Obed River, and Daniel, still unmarried, taking cash instead. On August 7, 1845, Daniel bought 100 acres from his older brother Hudspeth for $600 and established the Webb Homeplace. Daniel Webb (1802-1864), the youngest son of Caleb Webb and Mary Ann (Hudspeth) Webb, was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, and married Mary Jane Gammon (1832-1873), the only daughter of John and Rebecca “Becky” (Whitworth) Gammon, on November 11, 1852. They lived at what was first known as the Old Webb Homeplace, where their first son, William Caleb “Bee” Webb, was born on January 14, 1855, and their second son, Albert Kitchell Webb, was born in June 1863. Daniel’s oldest son, William Caleb “Bee” Webb (1855-1924), married Susan “Suffie” Bow (1858-1913), daughter of Jesse Bow (1827-1870) and Judith (Arms) Bow (1828-1916), on February 24, 1876; they were married for 37 years and had 9 children. With the construction of Dale Hollow Dam, family cemeteries including the Webb Cemetery were relocated from the future pool waters of Dale Hollow Lake. On November 20, 1942, the War Department, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ohio River Division, issued a contract for cemetery removals, and the Webb Cemetery, identified as Tract A-16, Cemetery 27, was designated for removal to this location within the Donaldson Cemetery. In all, 34 graves were removed from the Webb Cemetery, including 7 of Daniel’s slaves and 2 unidentified Confederate soldiers killed in a skirmish at the Webb Homeplace. Caleb and Suffie’s house stood at the former Webb Homeplace site of his father Daniel, and the original slave quarters and kitchen remained on the property and were later converted to storage. The large triangular-shaped headstone and footstone mark Daniel Webb’s grave, and these two stones were made by Daniel’s most trusted slave, Gray John Webb (1814-1891), a handyman, trader, farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, river man, and wagoner. After the Civil War, the Webb family gave Gray several acres overlooking the Webb Homeplace, and the property became locally known as Gray John Hill. The Donaldson Cemetery, also known as the Donaldson Government Cemetery, was one of eight reinterment sites identified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and eventually more than 2,200 graves were removed from the pool area of Dale Hollow Lake, though many early pioneers to the region likely still rest beneath its waters.