Mary Ann, better known as "Polly", Webb was the second oldest child of John G. Webb that lived.  She was born on May 14, 1845, probably in Itawamba County, Mississippi.  Her father bought 320 acres of land in the Clay Community from his mother and father-in-law in 1853, and the family lived there during her youth.  She stayed at home and helped with all of her younger brothers and sisters (the last was born in 1868, when she was 24 years old), which must have been no easy task.  She had eleven younger sibilings that lived to adulthood!  A few years after the last one was born, she began a family of her own.

On February 8, 1872, just across the state line in Lamar County, Alabama, a place very familiar to her family, she married John Robert Blalock, better known as "Bob".  Since her grandmother was a Blaylock at birth, she was probably distantly kin to Bob, but we do not know exactly how so today.  It is interesting to wonder if they ever found out how they might have been kin back then!  Probably at the end of 1872 they had their first child, a son named David.  Bob and Polly lived in Lamar County, Alabama, near his relatives and many of hers too.  He farmed for a living and she raised the children and kept the house, no easy task either.  Before eighteen years had passed, the couple had eleven children of their own, a situation Polly was familiar with.  Their children, seven boys and four girls, mostly stayed around the same area north of Sulligent, Alabama.

In 1898, they bought 160 acres of land, which today lies on Sulligent Lake Road.  It is just west of Sulligent and south of Highway 278.  It is forested for the most part today and lies on some low hills and bottoms:

1898, Lamar County, Alabama
John R. Blaylock bought a lot of land, 160 acres, at:
Township 14, Range 16 West, Section 3, NW 1/4, Lamar Co., AL
     (Only the south half of this quarter section)
Township 14, Range 16 West, Section 3, SW 1/4, Lamar Co., AL
     (Only the northwest corner of this quarter section)
Township 14, Range 16 West, Section 4, SE 1/4. Lamar Co., AL
     (Only the northeast corner of this quarter section)
On June 10, 1898. 

  One of Polly and Bob's grandchildren, Avist Blalock Carden, remembers how her grandparents would farm.  She remembers that when it was time to pick the cotton, and the whole family had to get involved, Polly would go out to help pick too, but she would usually do so in a chair.  First, she always made sure she put it in her apron.  Then grandpa would come along every so often and empty both of theirs into baskets.  Avist also remembers that Polly had a little drawer in the dinner table in their home that she kept the butter in.  It really impressed Avist when she was a little girl since she had never seen that before. 

In 1910, the census shows them like this:

1910 Lamar County, Alabama Census
Pine Springs
Blaylock, Bob (md. 35 years) 58 MS AL AL Farmer
Blaylock, Malinda 60 MS AL AL

When Polly passed away in 1915, she was living in Monroe County, in the Sipsey Fork community, not far across the line from Sulligent, Alabama.  At that time, Bob went to live with his daughter Betty Hicks and her family.  But within a couple of years, Betty died too, and so he moved away.  Betty's husband married again and moved away too. Bob lived almost another decade after she died.  They are both buried in the Pickle Family Cemetery in Sipsey Fork, Monroe County, Mississippi.

Willis David Blaylock (md. Mary Frances Walden and Edna Lemay)
     David was born in 1872 and married Mary Frances in 1897.  He lived in Monroe County a while, but moved around some.  When Mary Frances died in 1919, he remarried Edna Lemey.  He passed away about 1934 in Meridian, Mississippi.

William Blalock (md. ?)
William was married and had at least two girls. Maybe more.

George C.Blalock (md. Nancy Walden)
     George lived in Sulligent and was a farmer.  He died about 1939 and was buried without a tombstone in Macedonia Cemetery in Sulligent.

James "Jimmy" Blalock (md. Dee Gardner)
     Jimmy was born in 1877.  He and Dee had six children and lived in the Ozark Community in Itawamba County, Mississippi.  He died in 1933 at the age of 56 and was buried in the Ozark Cemetery.  Dee died in 1935.

Joseph Booker Blalock (md. Maude Nethery)
     Booker was a farmer.  He lived in the Sipsy Fork area in Monroe County and married Maude Nethery in 1904.  They had three children together.  He passed away at the age of 30, in 1910, and was buried in the Pickle Cemetery.

Lula Caroline Blalock (md. Commie Chrischel McClendon)
     Lula Caroline married Commie in 1900.  They lived in Lamar County and had a lot, 11!, of kids.  She lived a long life, passing away at the age of 71 on September 13, 1954.  She was buried in the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Lamar County, where Commie was buried in 1961 when he passed away at the age of 81.

Susan Elizabeth "Betty" Blalock (md. Robert Ratliff "Rat" Hicks)
     Betty was born in 1882 and died relatively young, ca. 1916, and apparently had no children.  Her husband had children by his second wife though.

Mary Malinda Blalock (md. Henry Franklin "Frank" Camp)
     "Lindy" was born on March 22, 1884.  She married Frank Camp on January 22, 1905.  They had eleven children together also!  They lived in Monroe County and both had long lives.  She passed away in 1963, at the age of 78.  He passed away in 1955 at the age of 85.  Both were buried in the Pickle Cemetery in Monroe County.

Green Thomas Blalock (md. Effie J. Knight)
     Green Thomas was born on June 6, 1884.  He married Effie on January 17, 1907.  He worked for a lumber company and farmed.  They had nine girls together and one boy who died very young.  All nine girls lived to adulthood, and all but one had children of their own.  

Samuel Filmore Blalock (md. Dora White)
     Samuel Filmore was a farmer in Pine Springs and had a large family with Dora.  He died in 1959 at the age of 73 and was buried in the Ozark Cemetery in Itawamba County.  He was also well known as a great fiddle player.

Nancy Blalock (md. Lindsey Walden)
     Nancy was born in 1891.  She married Ranzey on October 19, 1904.  They had three children together and lived in Lamar County.  Ranzey died ca 1923, at around the age of 49, but Nancy lived longer.  She died at some time in the 1960's.  Both were buried in the Macedonia Cemetery in Lamar County.