"Bob" Robert WEBB

Born C.1861 ^[24]
Prospector on the Kalgoorlie Goldfields before shifting to Carnamah as an elderly man in about 1935 ^[P4]
Arrived in Carnamah with an old horse and buggy, and initially camped at Cooragabba, north east of the Carnamah townsite ^[P4]
He is said to have had a son, but his whereabouts weren't known ^[P4]
After his horse died he walked into the Carnamah townsite for supplies ^[P4]
Carnamah storekeeper "Fred" Norman W. REYNOLDS helped him in getting the old age pension ^[P4]
Is likely the "Mr Webb, an Old Age Pensioner" who the Carnamah Golf Club considered making their caretaker in 1935 ^{[5: 26-Jul-1935]}
One day "Dick" Richard J. POWER came across him while looking for sheep, and he was very sick and had no food ^[P4]
From then onwards Mrs Lilias M. POWER sent a bottle of milk to him every day with her son Alex, and sometimes food as well ^[P4]
In 1938 Richard J. POWER and Norman W. REYNOLDS shifted him into the late Robert PALFREYMAN's humpy ^[P4]
The humpy was situated on the 23 acre block Lot 3 of M1123 on the eastern end of the Carnamah townsite ^{[3] [P4]}
He used to hide notes of money between newspaper pages in a huge pile of old newspapers in his two roomed humpy ^[P4]
Resided in retirement in Carnamah until his death in 1958 ^{[6] [19] [24]}
He died at his humpy or hut in Carnamah, being found there by Richard J. POWER^[P4]
Alternatively, it was stated that he died at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs ^[24]
Died September 1958 aged 97 years; buried Three Springs General Cemetery, Three Springs (Presbyterian, Plot 33) ^[24]
Following his death a large amount of money was found among the pile of newspapers, which was sent to the public trustee ^[P4]
Richard J. POWER unsuccessfully requested that some of the money be used for a headstone on his grave ^[P4]

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