He was a son of Jesse and Betsy (Ware) Tubbs. He was born in Alabama in May 1803 and died in Pulaski Co., Kentucky October 31, 1855. He is buried in the Ware grave yard a mile east of the small town of Pulaski, in Pulaski Co., Kentucky.
His mother died when he was very young and his mother's brother, Dudley Ware, who had moved from Virginia in 1797 to Pulaski County, Kentucky and settled about a mile east of the village of Pulaski, Pulaski County,made a trip to Alabama and took the child back to Kentucky. The trip was made by horseback and the child was carried on the front of the saddle. This must have been very tiresome for both. To have made the trip all the more uncomfortable, there were nothing but traces of roads at that time and they were through dense forrests where the sun seldom shined and across rivers and smaller streams where there were no bridges or ferry boats. The crossings were made by swimming the horse. There were few places where they could find shelter or food for the night and they had to camp out under the stars and cook their food at a camp fire. The distance was several hundred miles and took a week or more to complete. Only a strong healthy child could have endured such a journey and survived. It took even a strong man to make it.
His mother died when he was very young and his mother's brother, Dudley Ware, who had moved from Virginia in 1797 to Pulaski County, Kentucky and settled about a mile east of the village of Pulaski, Pulaski County,made a trip to Alabama and took the child back to Kentucky. The trip was made by horseback and the child was carried on the front of the saddle. This must have been very tiresome for both. To have made the trip all the more uncomfortable, there were nothing but traces of roads at that time and they were through dense forrests where the sun seldom shined and across rivers and smaller streams where there were no bridges or ferry boats. The crossings were made by swimming the horse. There were few places where they could find shelter or food for the night and they had to camp out under the stars and cook their food at a camp fire. The distance was several hundred miles and took a week or more to complete. Only a strong healthy child could have endured such a journey and survived. It took even a strong man to make it.
He was a son of Jesse and Betsy (Ware) Tubbs. He was born in Alabama in May 1803 and died in Pulaski Co., Kentucky October 31, 1855. He is buried in the Ware grave yard a mile east of the small town of Pulaski, in Pulaski Co., Kentucky.
His mother died when he was very young and his mother's brother, Dudley Ware, who had moved from Virginia in 1797 to Pulaski County, Kentucky and settled about a mile east of the village of Pulaski, Pulaski County,made a trip to Alabama and took the child back to Kentucky. The trip was made by horseback and the child was carried on the front of the saddle. This must have been very tiresome for both. To have made the trip all the more uncomfortable, there were nothing but traces of roads at that time and they were through dense forrests where the sun seldom shined and across rivers and smaller streams where there were no bridges or ferry boats. The crossings were made by swimming the horse. There were few places where they could find shelter or food for the night and they had to camp out under the stars and cook their food at a camp fire. The distance was several hundred miles and took a week or more to complete. Only a strong healthy child could have endured such a journey and survived. It took even a strong man to make it.
His mother died when he was very young and his mother's brother, Dudley Ware, who had moved from Virginia in 1797 to Pulaski County, Kentucky and settled about a mile east of the village of Pulaski, Pulaski County,made a trip to Alabama and took the child back to Kentucky. The trip was made by horseback and the child was carried on the front of the saddle. This must have been very tiresome for both. To have made the trip all the more uncomfortable, there were nothing but traces of roads at that time and they were through dense forrests where the sun seldom shined and across rivers and smaller streams where there were no bridges or ferry boats. The crossings were made by swimming the horse. There were few places where they could find shelter or food for the night and they had to camp out under the stars and cook their food at a camp fire. The distance was several hundred miles and took a week or more to complete. Only a strong healthy child could have endured such a journey and survived. It took even a strong man to make it.
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