Jay Kimball Hubbard - From Wisconsin to California

Jay Kimball Hubbard worked on the railroad and he asked his sweetheart, Ella Myrtle Chubb, to marry him through Morse code. What a story!  She said yes in 1907 and they married in Portland, Oregon.  In those days, it was terrible if one showed one's ankle, so family folklore tells us that Myrtle tore up her wedding photo because her ankle showed in the photograph.  Needless to say, if she saw some of the wedding photos in this day and age, she would faint.

He was a gentle man who loved music, animals and building projects.  When his youngest daughter, Neyda was a young child, he built her a playhouse with electricity, window...the works!

When Jay Kimball HUBBARD was born on September 20, 1877, in Alderly*, Ashippin, Dodge County, Wisconsin, his father, Amenzo Jabez Hubbard, was 27 and his mother, Delinda Ophelia Greene, was 22. He married Ella Myrtle CHUBB on June 5, 1907, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon.  He worked for the railroad most of his life.  They had five children in 21 years. He died on March 8, 1955, in Woodland, California, at the age of 77.  He had one brother, James Arthur.

Alderley is an unincorporated community located in the Town of Ashippun, Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States

GLODE DUGAR CHUBB from Poultney, Vermont

Those tiny green leaves that pop up on the Ancestry.com site give me goose bumps because I know it usually means they've done some work for me!  Yesterday, I was pleased to see some information on the family of GLODE DUGAR CHUBB.  

He is a colorful ancestor and one who made a big mark in history, on society and in his community. When I first learned how diligent he and his wife worked to help slaves by hiding them and helping them move farther north to freedom, I swelled with pride.  I learned that he and his wife, PAMELA PATTISON CHUBB, hid runaway slaves in their home in what we know as the "Underground Railroad."  Glode Dugar Chubb's son was James Dillon Chubb, my great, great grandfather. 

See more information about Glode Dugar Chubb here 

The green leaves led me to CHUBB memorials and I will post them on this blog one at a time.

See more Chubb family memorial links here

James Arthur Hubbard ~ Missing and almost found

JAMES ARTHUR HUBBARD was the brother of Jay Kimball Hubbard.  Family folklore tells us he was either shanghaied or just left for work one day and never came back to his family.  It surprised me that nobody knew this story.   Were the brothers estranged?  Did they have an argument and walked away and the family lost him?  Was there any Hubbard family member who kept in touch with him? Unfortunately, the only person who might have had the answer to any of these questions was Ella Myrtle Chubb Hubbard, the wife of Jay Kimball Hubbard, and she died in 1971 and took the answers with her.

Curiosity blended with pure nosiness led me to find some of the answers as I stumbled through the family history with blinders on.  One day, a woman contacted me in response to seeing my family tree on ancestry.com.  She was the granddaughter of Thomas Schmuck in Washington state.  It appears that he married James Arthur Hubbard's "widow."  She did not have a photo of the woman, but she did give me the gravestone photos.

Then, I was off and running.  I found MARIE PEARL BENNETT Hubbard, her children and a bit of her history.  In future posts, I will flesh her in and we may eventually find where James Arthur went...died, from what disaster?  Illness?  Accident?  And where was he buried?