Obituary
Clovis News Journal, Saturday, July 28, 1951
Grubaugh Services to be held Monday
Millard Grubaugh, 91, who came to Curry County in 1906, died Saturday morning at a local hospital. He had been ill but a few days.
Grubaugh came to New Mexico from Michigan on account of his health, and outlived six brothers and a sister, his wife and his five sons. Mrs. Grubaugh died three years ago this month.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Selman, Clovis, and Mrs. Goldie Chandler, Albuquerque, 12 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
After filing on a claim southwest of Clovis (five miles south of Clovis Air Force Base) Grubaugh worked for the Santa Fe as a blacksmith when the railroad was building its shops here. He then went to Carlsbad to live for 12 years returning to Clovis to open a blacksmith shop at Mitchell and 2nd Streets.
Grubaugh retired from his shop in 1940 at the age of 80.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm Monday from Charles V. Steed Memorial Chapel, with a member of the Rebeccah Lodge reading the rites. Burial will be in Mission Garden of Memories with Steed Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Odd fellow services will be conducted at the grave, and all Odd Fellows are asked to meet at the IOOF Hall at 1:30 pm Monday.
Personal interest story:
Clovis New Journal, March 31, 1948
Blacksmith Who Struck First Iron In Clovis Still Lives in City
The blacksmith who "hit the first struck in Clovis" is still living in this city and he and the girl who became his bride in 1883, back in his native Michigan, will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary May 6.
Millard Grubaugh came to Riley's Switch (the railroad stop which later became Clovis) in 1906. He left Michigan for his health, having been told by his physician that his cough would not yield to medication and that he should seek a drier climate.
Apparently, the eastern part of the Territory of New Mexico provided just the atmospheric conditions required for his complete recovery, for the cough disappeared in two weeks and has not returned.
Today, at 88, Grubaugh is still an active man, not above illustrating the clog steps he used to employ when he did solo dances.
Sarah Scott, who married him at the home of his mother in Gratiot County, Michigan, three score and five years ago, has not fared so well as far as health is concerned. Three years ago she fell and broke her hip and has been a semi-invalid ever since.
But she still has the marvelous sense of humor that she was called upon to use 42 years ago when her husband wrote her from New Mexico to "bring the children, the buggy horse, a barrel of vinegar and a barrel of salt" and join him in his new home.
His family declares that the horse, French, was dearer to him than any of the rest of them. None of them, to this day, has been able to figure out what he wanted with the barrel of vinegar. Even Grubaugh says the only reason he can think of is that 'There wasn't any vinegar here".
When it became apparent that a town was coming into being a Riley's Switch, Doug Hammond moved his livery barn from Melrose to what is now Clovis and it was for him that Grubaugh worked.
He had learned his trade back in Michigan, beginning when he was a boy of 16. He said that he shod aluminum shoes on "old Dan Patch" and many other famous race horses before he ever came to Clovis.
Even before he moved to Eastern New Mexico, Grubaugh was known as a specialist in the making of horseshoe nails and travelled from shop to shop manufacturing nails for other smiths.
The Grubaughs, after Mrs. Grubaugh had held a public sale in Michigan to dispose of their property there, chartered a car in which to ship the horse, the vinegar, the salt, and a few other possessions that she thought might be more practical in a new home, established a homestead claim southwest of Clovis.
Eventually Grubaugh opened his own blacksmith shop at the corner of 2nd and Mitchell, and establishment which was still standing seven years ago when he sold out and retired from his profession.
Only three of the seven children born to Sarah and Millard Grubaugh are still living. They are Jake Grubaugh, employed by the Swift Packing Company in Spokane, WA; Mrs. Mary Selman, who lives here with her parents at the extreme east end of 2nd Street; and Mrs. Goldie Chandler, who lives north of Clovis. The aged couple have 12 grandchildren and seven great grand-children.
Grubaugh says that he was never injured by a horse in all the years he spent nailng shoes to their hooves, beyond having a toe mashed now and then when one stepped on him, but he does have big lumps on his ribs which a doctor told him were caused by blacksmithing.
That the Grubaughs have had fun during their long years as man and wife is obvious, for they still twinkle at one another when their glances meet, and each still makes little jokes at the other's expense.
Fragile with the delicacy of old age and illness, Mrs. Grubaugh, at 87, is still a lovely woman, her gray hair framing a fine face with calm eyes and a mouth that curves into a sweet smile. And she is as pleased as a girl when her husband fusses over her and, as he frequently does, holds her hand.
That the Grubaughs have inspired and deep affection and responsibility in their children is evidenced by the fact that their small home and the yard surrounding it are immaculately clean and neat; that Mrs. Grubaugh is cared for lovingly and faithfully; and that their daughters, who now look after them, find amusement in the fact that their father is still hale and hearty, but that all he does "is eat and sleep".
Millard Fillmore Grubaugh married Sarah Jane Scott 6 May 1883 in Washington, Gratiot, Michigan
Millard and Sarah had 9 children:
Olive "Ollie" Grubaugh Drumheller Foor (1884-1945)
Charles Virgal Grubaugh (1885-1930)
Clarence E. Grubaugh (1886-1929)
Jacob Jay Grubaugh (1887-1950)
Robert Grubaugh (1893-1893)
Mary Elizabeth Grubaugh Alewine Selman (1893-1974)
Harrison "Harry" Grubaugh (1895-1939)
Goldie Irene Grubaugh Chandler (1901-1972)
Unnamed Grubaugh (1902-1902)
Clovis News Journal, Saturday, July 28, 1951
Grubaugh Services to be held Monday
Millard Grubaugh, 91, who came to Curry County in 1906, died Saturday morning at a local hospital. He had been ill but a few days.
Grubaugh came to New Mexico from Michigan on account of his health, and outlived six brothers and a sister, his wife and his five sons. Mrs. Grubaugh died three years ago this month.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Selman, Clovis, and Mrs. Goldie Chandler, Albuquerque, 12 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
After filing on a claim southwest of Clovis (five miles south of Clovis Air Force Base) Grubaugh worked for the Santa Fe as a blacksmith when the railroad was building its shops here. He then went to Carlsbad to live for 12 years returning to Clovis to open a blacksmith shop at Mitchell and 2nd Streets.
Grubaugh retired from his shop in 1940 at the age of 80.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm Monday from Charles V. Steed Memorial Chapel, with a member of the Rebeccah Lodge reading the rites. Burial will be in Mission Garden of Memories with Steed Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Odd fellow services will be conducted at the grave, and all Odd Fellows are asked to meet at the IOOF Hall at 1:30 pm Monday.
Personal interest story:
Clovis New Journal, March 31, 1948
Blacksmith Who Struck First Iron In Clovis Still Lives in City
The blacksmith who "hit the first struck in Clovis" is still living in this city and he and the girl who became his bride in 1883, back in his native Michigan, will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary May 6.
Millard Grubaugh came to Riley's Switch (the railroad stop which later became Clovis) in 1906. He left Michigan for his health, having been told by his physician that his cough would not yield to medication and that he should seek a drier climate.
Apparently, the eastern part of the Territory of New Mexico provided just the atmospheric conditions required for his complete recovery, for the cough disappeared in two weeks and has not returned.
Today, at 88, Grubaugh is still an active man, not above illustrating the clog steps he used to employ when he did solo dances.
Sarah Scott, who married him at the home of his mother in Gratiot County, Michigan, three score and five years ago, has not fared so well as far as health is concerned. Three years ago she fell and broke her hip and has been a semi-invalid ever since.
But she still has the marvelous sense of humor that she was called upon to use 42 years ago when her husband wrote her from New Mexico to "bring the children, the buggy horse, a barrel of vinegar and a barrel of salt" and join him in his new home.
His family declares that the horse, French, was dearer to him than any of the rest of them. None of them, to this day, has been able to figure out what he wanted with the barrel of vinegar. Even Grubaugh says the only reason he can think of is that 'There wasn't any vinegar here".
When it became apparent that a town was coming into being a Riley's Switch, Doug Hammond moved his livery barn from Melrose to what is now Clovis and it was for him that Grubaugh worked.
He had learned his trade back in Michigan, beginning when he was a boy of 16. He said that he shod aluminum shoes on "old Dan Patch" and many other famous race horses before he ever came to Clovis.
Even before he moved to Eastern New Mexico, Grubaugh was known as a specialist in the making of horseshoe nails and travelled from shop to shop manufacturing nails for other smiths.
The Grubaughs, after Mrs. Grubaugh had held a public sale in Michigan to dispose of their property there, chartered a car in which to ship the horse, the vinegar, the salt, and a few other possessions that she thought might be more practical in a new home, established a homestead claim southwest of Clovis.
Eventually Grubaugh opened his own blacksmith shop at the corner of 2nd and Mitchell, and establishment which was still standing seven years ago when he sold out and retired from his profession.
Only three of the seven children born to Sarah and Millard Grubaugh are still living. They are Jake Grubaugh, employed by the Swift Packing Company in Spokane, WA; Mrs. Mary Selman, who lives here with her parents at the extreme east end of 2nd Street; and Mrs. Goldie Chandler, who lives north of Clovis. The aged couple have 12 grandchildren and seven great grand-children.
Grubaugh says that he was never injured by a horse in all the years he spent nailng shoes to their hooves, beyond having a toe mashed now and then when one stepped on him, but he does have big lumps on his ribs which a doctor told him were caused by blacksmithing.
That the Grubaughs have had fun during their long years as man and wife is obvious, for they still twinkle at one another when their glances meet, and each still makes little jokes at the other's expense.
Fragile with the delicacy of old age and illness, Mrs. Grubaugh, at 87, is still a lovely woman, her gray hair framing a fine face with calm eyes and a mouth that curves into a sweet smile. And she is as pleased as a girl when her husband fusses over her and, as he frequently does, holds her hand.
That the Grubaughs have inspired and deep affection and responsibility in their children is evidenced by the fact that their small home and the yard surrounding it are immaculately clean and neat; that Mrs. Grubaugh is cared for lovingly and faithfully; and that their daughters, who now look after them, find amusement in the fact that their father is still hale and hearty, but that all he does "is eat and sleep".
Millard Fillmore Grubaugh married Sarah Jane Scott 6 May 1883 in Washington, Gratiot, Michigan
Millard and Sarah had 9 children:
Olive "Ollie" Grubaugh Drumheller Foor (1884-1945)
Charles Virgal Grubaugh (1885-1930)
Clarence E. Grubaugh (1886-1929)
Jacob Jay Grubaugh (1887-1950)
Robert Grubaugh (1893-1893)
Mary Elizabeth Grubaugh Alewine Selman (1893-1974)
Harrison "Harry" Grubaugh (1895-1939)
Goldie Irene Grubaugh Chandler (1901-1972)
Unnamed Grubaugh (1902-1902)
Obituary
Clovis News Journal, Saturday, July 28, 1951
Grubaugh Services to be held Monday
Millard Grubaugh, 91, who came to Curry County in 1906, died Saturday morning at a local hospital. He had been ill but a few days.
Grubaugh came to New Mexico from Michigan on account of his health, and outlived six brothers and a sister, his wife and his five sons. Mrs. Grubaugh died three years ago this month.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Selman, Clovis, and Mrs. Goldie Chandler, Albuquerque, 12 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
After filing on a claim southwest of Clovis (five miles south of Clovis Air Force Base) Grubaugh worked for the Santa Fe as a blacksmith when the railroad was building its shops here. He then went to Carlsbad to live for 12 years returning to Clovis to open a blacksmith shop at Mitchell and 2nd Streets.
Grubaugh retired from his shop in 1940 at the age of 80.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm Monday from Charles V. Steed Memorial Chapel, with a member of the Rebeccah Lodge reading the rites. Burial will be in Mission Garden of Memories with Steed Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Odd fellow services will be conducted at the grave, and all Odd Fellows are asked to meet at the IOOF Hall at 1:30 pm Monday.
Personal interest story:
Clovis New Journal, March 31, 1948
Blacksmith Who Struck First Iron In Clovis Still Lives in City
The blacksmith who "hit the first struck in Clovis" is still living in this city and he and the girl who became his bride in 1883, back in his native Michigan, will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary May 6.
Millard Grubaugh came to Riley's Switch (the railroad stop which later became Clovis) in 1906. He left Michigan for his health, having been told by his physician that his cough would not yield to medication and that he should seek a drier climate.
Apparently, the eastern part of the Territory of New Mexico provided just the atmospheric conditions required for his complete recovery, for the cough disappeared in two weeks and has not returned.
Today, at 88, Grubaugh is still an active man, not above illustrating the clog steps he used to employ when he did solo dances.
Sarah Scott, who married him at the home of his mother in Gratiot County, Michigan, three score and five years ago, has not fared so well as far as health is concerned. Three years ago she fell and broke her hip and has been a semi-invalid ever since.
But she still has the marvelous sense of humor that she was called upon to use 42 years ago when her husband wrote her from New Mexico to "bring the children, the buggy horse, a barrel of vinegar and a barrel of salt" and join him in his new home.
His family declares that the horse, French, was dearer to him than any of the rest of them. None of them, to this day, has been able to figure out what he wanted with the barrel of vinegar. Even Grubaugh says the only reason he can think of is that 'There wasn't any vinegar here".
When it became apparent that a town was coming into being a Riley's Switch, Doug Hammond moved his livery barn from Melrose to what is now Clovis and it was for him that Grubaugh worked.
He had learned his trade back in Michigan, beginning when he was a boy of 16. He said that he shod aluminum shoes on "old Dan Patch" and many other famous race horses before he ever came to Clovis.
Even before he moved to Eastern New Mexico, Grubaugh was known as a specialist in the making of horseshoe nails and travelled from shop to shop manufacturing nails for other smiths.
The Grubaughs, after Mrs. Grubaugh had held a public sale in Michigan to dispose of their property there, chartered a car in which to ship the horse, the vinegar, the salt, and a few other possessions that she thought might be more practical in a new home, established a homestead claim southwest of Clovis.
Eventually Grubaugh opened his own blacksmith shop at the corner of 2nd and Mitchell, and establishment which was still standing seven years ago when he sold out and retired from his profession.
Only three of the seven children born to Sarah and Millard Grubaugh are still living. They are Jake Grubaugh, employed by the Swift Packing Company in Spokane, WA; Mrs. Mary Selman, who lives here with her parents at the extreme east end of 2nd Street; and Mrs. Goldie Chandler, who lives north of Clovis. The aged couple have 12 grandchildren and seven great grand-children.
Grubaugh says that he was never injured by a horse in all the years he spent nailng shoes to their hooves, beyond having a toe mashed now and then when one stepped on him, but he does have big lumps on his ribs which a doctor told him were caused by blacksmithing.
That the Grubaughs have had fun during their long years as man and wife is obvious, for they still twinkle at one another when their glances meet, and each still makes little jokes at the other's expense.
Fragile with the delicacy of old age and illness, Mrs. Grubaugh, at 87, is still a lovely woman, her gray hair framing a fine face with calm eyes and a mouth that curves into a sweet smile. And she is as pleased as a girl when her husband fusses over her and, as he frequently does, holds her hand.
That the Grubaughs have inspired and deep affection and responsibility in their children is evidenced by the fact that their small home and the yard surrounding it are immaculately clean and neat; that Mrs. Grubaugh is cared for lovingly and faithfully; and that their daughters, who now look after them, find amusement in the fact that their father is still hale and hearty, but that all he does "is eat and sleep".
Millard Fillmore Grubaugh married Sarah Jane Scott 6 May 1883 in Washington, Gratiot, Michigan
Millard and Sarah had 9 children:
Olive "Ollie" Grubaugh Drumheller Foor (1884-1945)
Charles Virgal Grubaugh (1885-1930)
Clarence E. Grubaugh (1886-1929)
Jacob Jay Grubaugh (1887-1950)
Robert Grubaugh (1893-1893)
Mary Elizabeth Grubaugh Alewine Selman (1893-1974)
Harrison "Harry" Grubaugh (1895-1939)
Goldie Irene Grubaugh Chandler (1901-1972)
Unnamed Grubaugh (1902-1902)
Clovis News Journal, Saturday, July 28, 1951
Grubaugh Services to be held Monday
Millard Grubaugh, 91, who came to Curry County in 1906, died Saturday morning at a local hospital. He had been ill but a few days.
Grubaugh came to New Mexico from Michigan on account of his health, and outlived six brothers and a sister, his wife and his five sons. Mrs. Grubaugh died three years ago this month.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Selman, Clovis, and Mrs. Goldie Chandler, Albuquerque, 12 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
After filing on a claim southwest of Clovis (five miles south of Clovis Air Force Base) Grubaugh worked for the Santa Fe as a blacksmith when the railroad was building its shops here. He then went to Carlsbad to live for 12 years returning to Clovis to open a blacksmith shop at Mitchell and 2nd Streets.
Grubaugh retired from his shop in 1940 at the age of 80.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm Monday from Charles V. Steed Memorial Chapel, with a member of the Rebeccah Lodge reading the rites. Burial will be in Mission Garden of Memories with Steed Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Odd fellow services will be conducted at the grave, and all Odd Fellows are asked to meet at the IOOF Hall at 1:30 pm Monday.
Personal interest story:
Clovis New Journal, March 31, 1948
Blacksmith Who Struck First Iron In Clovis Still Lives in City
The blacksmith who "hit the first struck in Clovis" is still living in this city and he and the girl who became his bride in 1883, back in his native Michigan, will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary May 6.
Millard Grubaugh came to Riley's Switch (the railroad stop which later became Clovis) in 1906. He left Michigan for his health, having been told by his physician that his cough would not yield to medication and that he should seek a drier climate.
Apparently, the eastern part of the Territory of New Mexico provided just the atmospheric conditions required for his complete recovery, for the cough disappeared in two weeks and has not returned.
Today, at 88, Grubaugh is still an active man, not above illustrating the clog steps he used to employ when he did solo dances.
Sarah Scott, who married him at the home of his mother in Gratiot County, Michigan, three score and five years ago, has not fared so well as far as health is concerned. Three years ago she fell and broke her hip and has been a semi-invalid ever since.
But she still has the marvelous sense of humor that she was called upon to use 42 years ago when her husband wrote her from New Mexico to "bring the children, the buggy horse, a barrel of vinegar and a barrel of salt" and join him in his new home.
His family declares that the horse, French, was dearer to him than any of the rest of them. None of them, to this day, has been able to figure out what he wanted with the barrel of vinegar. Even Grubaugh says the only reason he can think of is that 'There wasn't any vinegar here".
When it became apparent that a town was coming into being a Riley's Switch, Doug Hammond moved his livery barn from Melrose to what is now Clovis and it was for him that Grubaugh worked.
He had learned his trade back in Michigan, beginning when he was a boy of 16. He said that he shod aluminum shoes on "old Dan Patch" and many other famous race horses before he ever came to Clovis.
Even before he moved to Eastern New Mexico, Grubaugh was known as a specialist in the making of horseshoe nails and travelled from shop to shop manufacturing nails for other smiths.
The Grubaughs, after Mrs. Grubaugh had held a public sale in Michigan to dispose of their property there, chartered a car in which to ship the horse, the vinegar, the salt, and a few other possessions that she thought might be more practical in a new home, established a homestead claim southwest of Clovis.
Eventually Grubaugh opened his own blacksmith shop at the corner of 2nd and Mitchell, and establishment which was still standing seven years ago when he sold out and retired from his profession.
Only three of the seven children born to Sarah and Millard Grubaugh are still living. They are Jake Grubaugh, employed by the Swift Packing Company in Spokane, WA; Mrs. Mary Selman, who lives here with her parents at the extreme east end of 2nd Street; and Mrs. Goldie Chandler, who lives north of Clovis. The aged couple have 12 grandchildren and seven great grand-children.
Grubaugh says that he was never injured by a horse in all the years he spent nailng shoes to their hooves, beyond having a toe mashed now and then when one stepped on him, but he does have big lumps on his ribs which a doctor told him were caused by blacksmithing.
That the Grubaughs have had fun during their long years as man and wife is obvious, for they still twinkle at one another when their glances meet, and each still makes little jokes at the other's expense.
Fragile with the delicacy of old age and illness, Mrs. Grubaugh, at 87, is still a lovely woman, her gray hair framing a fine face with calm eyes and a mouth that curves into a sweet smile. And she is as pleased as a girl when her husband fusses over her and, as he frequently does, holds her hand.
That the Grubaughs have inspired and deep affection and responsibility in their children is evidenced by the fact that their small home and the yard surrounding it are immaculately clean and neat; that Mrs. Grubaugh is cared for lovingly and faithfully; and that their daughters, who now look after them, find amusement in the fact that their father is still hale and hearty, but that all he does "is eat and sleep".
Millard Fillmore Grubaugh married Sarah Jane Scott 6 May 1883 in Washington, Gratiot, Michigan
Millard and Sarah had 9 children:
Olive "Ollie" Grubaugh Drumheller Foor (1884-1945)
Charles Virgal Grubaugh (1885-1930)
Clarence E. Grubaugh (1886-1929)
Jacob Jay Grubaugh (1887-1950)
Robert Grubaugh (1893-1893)
Mary Elizabeth Grubaugh Alewine Selman (1893-1974)
Harrison "Harry" Grubaugh (1895-1939)
Goldie Irene Grubaugh Chandler (1901-1972)
Unnamed Grubaugh (1902-1902)
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