When Tabitha (also spelled Tibatha) Ross died in 1896, the newspaper did not have a lengthy obituary:
"Died. At Acme, on Saturday Dec. 19th, 1896, of dropsy, Mrs. Ross aged about 70 years."(1)
The rest of the information we have on her comes from census records and the Ancestral File records of the Family History Library in Salt Lake.
Tabitha Jane Hubbell was born on 24 January 1826 in Dallas, Dallas County, Iowa, to Samuel and Mary A. (Rumbley) Hubbell. The Hubbells trace their ancestry back to Richard Hubbell (1627-1699) of Worcestershire, England and Fairfield, Connecticut. Samuel and Mary were married in 1820 in North Carolina, and produced a family of eight children. Tabitha was the eldest.
She was married to Robert Henry Ross on 21 September 1844 in Johnson County, Indiana. Ross was born about 1823 in Indiana to Richard Ross & Sarah Annis Clark; he later served in the Civil War (Co. C., 39th Iowa Infantry). The Ross's had at least eight children: John T., Mary Ann, Samuel W., Isaac L., Sarah ("Sally'), Nancy, Richard Henry, Robert H. Ross.
A Ross family researcher states that Robert & Tabitha (Hubbell) Ross followed some of their children from Adel, Dallas Co., Iowa, out to Eugene, Oregon. Richard died sometime after Tabitha, as he appears in the 1900 Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon, census.
Still, the question is: how and why did she end up in western Lane County? Were she and Robert visiting? or did they intend to stay on the coast? She was a distant cousin of Harry C. Hubbell, also buried in the Glenada Cemetery – he descends down another line from the original emigrant Richard. Was there a closer connection between the two ? or was that a coincidence?
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(1) "Died," The West, Fri., Dec. 25, 1896, p. 3, col. 4.
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"Died. At Acme, on Saturday Dec. 19th, 1896, of dropsy, Mrs. Ross aged about 70 years."(1)
The rest of the information we have on her comes from census records and the Ancestral File records of the Family History Library in Salt Lake.
Tabitha Jane Hubbell was born on 24 January 1826 in Dallas, Dallas County, Iowa, to Samuel and Mary A. (Rumbley) Hubbell. The Hubbells trace their ancestry back to Richard Hubbell (1627-1699) of Worcestershire, England and Fairfield, Connecticut. Samuel and Mary were married in 1820 in North Carolina, and produced a family of eight children. Tabitha was the eldest.
She was married to Robert Henry Ross on 21 September 1844 in Johnson County, Indiana. Ross was born about 1823 in Indiana to Richard Ross & Sarah Annis Clark; he later served in the Civil War (Co. C., 39th Iowa Infantry). The Ross's had at least eight children: John T., Mary Ann, Samuel W., Isaac L., Sarah ("Sally'), Nancy, Richard Henry, Robert H. Ross.
A Ross family researcher states that Robert & Tabitha (Hubbell) Ross followed some of their children from Adel, Dallas Co., Iowa, out to Eugene, Oregon. Richard died sometime after Tabitha, as he appears in the 1900 Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon, census.
Still, the question is: how and why did she end up in western Lane County? Were she and Robert visiting? or did they intend to stay on the coast? She was a distant cousin of Harry C. Hubbell, also buried in the Glenada Cemetery – he descends down another line from the original emigrant Richard. Was there a closer connection between the two ? or was that a coincidence?
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(1) "Died," The West, Fri., Dec. 25, 1896, p. 3, col. 4.
∼Wife of B.H. Ross (Boss)
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When Tabitha (also spelled Tibatha) Ross died in 1896, the newspaper did not have a lengthy obituary:
"Died. At Acme, on Saturday Dec. 19th, 1896, of dropsy, Mrs. Ross aged about 70 years."(1)
The rest of the information we have on her comes from census records and the Ancestral File records of the Family History Library in Salt Lake.
Tabitha Jane Hubbell was born on 24 January 1826 in Dallas, Dallas County, Iowa, to Samuel and Mary A. (Rumbley) Hubbell. The Hubbells trace their ancestry back to Richard Hubbell (1627-1699) of Worcestershire, England and Fairfield, Connecticut. Samuel and Mary were married in 1820 in North Carolina, and produced a family of eight children. Tabitha was the eldest.
She was married to Robert Henry Ross on 21 September 1844 in Johnson County, Indiana. Ross was born about 1823 in Indiana to Richard Ross & Sarah Annis Clark; he later served in the Civil War (Co. C., 39th Iowa Infantry). The Ross's had at least eight children: John T., Mary Ann, Samuel W., Isaac L., Sarah ("Sally'), Nancy, Richard Henry, Robert H. Ross.
A Ross family researcher states that Robert & Tabitha (Hubbell) Ross followed some of their children from Adel, Dallas Co., Iowa, out to Eugene, Oregon. Richard died sometime after Tabitha, as he appears in the 1900 Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon, census.
Still, the question is: how and why did she end up in western Lane County? Were she and Robert visiting? or did they intend to stay on the coast? She was a distant cousin of Harry C. Hubbell, also buried in the Glenada Cemetery – he descends down another line from the original emigrant Richard. Was there a closer connection between the two ? or was that a coincidence?
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(1) "Died," The West, Fri., Dec. 25, 1896, p. 3, col. 4.
∼Wife of B.H. Ross (Boss)
70Y 10M 26D
"Died. At Acme, on Saturday Dec. 19th, 1896, of dropsy, Mrs. Ross aged about 70 years."(1)
The rest of the information we have on her comes from census records and the Ancestral File records of the Family History Library in Salt Lake.
Tabitha Jane Hubbell was born on 24 January 1826 in Dallas, Dallas County, Iowa, to Samuel and Mary A. (Rumbley) Hubbell. The Hubbells trace their ancestry back to Richard Hubbell (1627-1699) of Worcestershire, England and Fairfield, Connecticut. Samuel and Mary were married in 1820 in North Carolina, and produced a family of eight children. Tabitha was the eldest.
She was married to Robert Henry Ross on 21 September 1844 in Johnson County, Indiana. Ross was born about 1823 in Indiana to Richard Ross & Sarah Annis Clark; he later served in the Civil War (Co. C., 39th Iowa Infantry). The Ross's had at least eight children: John T., Mary Ann, Samuel W., Isaac L., Sarah ("Sally'), Nancy, Richard Henry, Robert H. Ross.
A Ross family researcher states that Robert & Tabitha (Hubbell) Ross followed some of their children from Adel, Dallas Co., Iowa, out to Eugene, Oregon. Richard died sometime after Tabitha, as he appears in the 1900 Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon, census.
Still, the question is: how and why did she end up in western Lane County? Were she and Robert visiting? or did they intend to stay on the coast? She was a distant cousin of Harry C. Hubbell, also buried in the Glenada Cemetery – he descends down another line from the original emigrant Richard. Was there a closer connection between the two ? or was that a coincidence?
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(1) "Died," The West, Fri., Dec. 25, 1896, p. 3, col. 4.
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