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Henry Stubbs Family

Henry Stubbs Family of Lake Minnetonka

Henry Stubbs and Mary Grave Stubbs

Keywords: Stubbs, Jones, Maddock, Hickson, genealogy, reunion, Quaker, Wrightsboro, Wrightsborough, Elk Monthly Meeting, West Elkton, Preble County, Butler County, Ohio, Minnesota, Georgia

Related sites and pages:

  • Western Hennepin County Pioneers Association founded in 1907 by Hennepin County pioneers, maintains family files and local history files for genealogy research
  • Stubbs Family Website with links to other Stubbs Lines and the Stubbs DNA Project
  • Stubbs Family Photo Album: photographs of descendants of Thomas and Mary Minor Stubbs, 1880's calling cards, and more.
  • Wrightsborough Quaker Settlement Information on Wrightsborough, including transcription of notes by Roger Avery Stubbs.
  • S. Shaw Tatounova's Homepage Maddock, Quaker settlement in Wrightsborough, Georgia, Southern Quakers
  • Maddock Family Website by Jill Carter Knuth.
  • These Henry Stubbs descendants have been moving houses for 3 generations!

Henry Stubbs and family

Henry Stubbs was born into the Quaker community of West Elkton in 1806, OH where his father and mother had moved after leaving the Quaker community of Wrightsborough, GA in 1805. Henry was the 9th child born to Nathan and Elizabeth Jones Stubbs; one more child, Elijah, was born to the couple in 1808. Henry married Rachel Pray in 1828 and inherited farm land and a grist mill on Elk Creek, Butler County, OH from his father in 1835. Henry and Rachel had 5 children. Rachel died in 1836. In 1837 he married Mary Louisa Eccles and they had 6 children. Henry built a saw mill on the creek. Mary grew ill and a doctor recommended she drink 'free stone' water from her birth place in North Carolina. In 1846, Henry, Mary and two youngest sons, Milton and Charles Rolla traveled by horse and wagon to North Carolina where Mary recovered after a stay of three months. They also visited Henry's parents earlier home in Wrightsborough, GA and returned home to OH in 1847. Mary Louisa died in 1851. Henry moved to Indiana and married Mary Stroud Grave in 1852.

After farming in Indiana for a few years and failing to build a new mill near Lagro, IN, when another miller built nearby first; Henry and family moved to Minnesota in 1856. They homesteaded on the northern edge of Lake Minnetonka near the town of Long Lake. Henry ran the first post office in the area. In 1897 the Stubbs and Grave families held a joint reunion in Long Lake. After several joint reunions, the descendants of Henry Stubbs founded a Stubbs Cousin Reunion in 1922 and have held a reunion each year since. In 1997 the Stubbs Cousins Reunion celebrated their 75th anniversary.

  • Henry's Descendants (descendants, Civil War letters, Dakota Uprising) from a book published in 1997 by Dan Stubbs from information collected by Roger Avery Stubbs (go to page on Roger Avery Stubbs) and contributed by descendants. Over 2400 descendants and spouses are known, this lists the first 3 generations of descendants.
  • Stubbs Bay School (photograph, 56k) built on Henry's homestead, next to his house.
  • Henry's Memoirs 1878
  • Henry Stubbs Descendants Photograph (173k) at the September 20, 1997, Long Lake, MN Reunion.

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