THE LIFE AND MEMORIES OF SOCRATES HUBBARD

With a Short Sketch of the Hubbard Family

Written by Himself

Commenced the 13th of December 1856 in Quincy, Ill.

Prefface

        I have long contemplated writing a sketch of our family and in fact once commenced it about ten years ago and several times I have kept a diary of my own wanderings for some months together.  None of them are now at hand; two volums are in Baltimore at Dr. Piggots so that this must be written entirly from memory.  It will be a pleasure for me to call up the remembrances of the past to inhabit again our old homested and people it again with happy glowing forms that have long since slep beneath the clods of the valley.

"How dear to this heart the seens of my childhood

When fond recolection presents them to view!

The orchard the meddow the deep tangled wild wood

And every loved spot that my infancy knew."

        The knowledge that I possess of my ancesters is very scant indeed derived from accidental or incidentel remarks of my fathers.  The first of the race came to this country from England and setteled upon the coneticut river at what date I cannot lirn probibly about the year 1720.  My Grandfathers name was Danniel as also I believe was that of my Great Grand father.^[1]

        They settle at old Hadum a sterile spot and tilled a small farm.  My father used to amuse his children by telling them stories about Haddam and among my first recolections is of hanging on his knee and listening to these tales.  Most of them have passed from my mind.

        The family left Haddam about the year 1786 at which time my Father Moses was seven years old the youngest of the family.  They first settled in Durham Town Green County, New York^[2], on a farm now I believe belonging to Mr. Booth.  Here in a wild almost unsettled country my Father spent his boy hood, and at an old district school house not far off received the little edgucation that he had.  This was a heavily timbered country and years of hard toil was required to open up a farm.  The country at that time abounded with bars, Panthers, Woolves, Deer, etc.  these aminels were very distructive to there stock and crops.

        My Grandfather had just got his farm under fine cultivation by years of hardship and toil when he was expeled from the soil.  His title was not good.  Dishartened and discouraged, he took his family and again pushed into the forrest, a second time to hew down the sturdey timber and form a new home.

        Some six miles to the west was a mountainous rang called Broome hills^[3] or Scotts pattent.  Here about a half mild from the mountain foot he pitched his tent again, and on this spot I was born.  I will discribe my place of birth in some future page.

        My Grandfather had I think twelve children.  I cant name them as there names should be according to age but I will do so as neerly as I can.  Mathew, Runa, Danial, Rosana, Clark, Margery, Iseral, Moses, Aaron, Amitta, Miles, Solomon^[4]  Of these I never saw but five, Margare, Amitta, Iseral Miles and Aaron.

        The oldest of these Mathew died young.  At the breaking out of the Revilution of 1777 he was a volenteer from Conecticut and was sent to the southern army his fate was unknown.  Whether he fell in battle or became a victom of the merciless scourge small pocks that made such feerfull raviges in our army about that time is not known, but he was never hird from.^[5]

        Runa Hubbard^[6] lived and dyed in Windham Township^[7] within ten miles of me.  I never saw him: but from what I can lern he must have been a singularly whimsical disagreeable man.  And I have some faint rememberance of hearing that he ate opium.  I know nothing sertain.  I dont know that I ever met aney of his children. His wifes name was Sale [or Lole].  My Parrents used to visit them.  Clark moved to Ohio then the western fronteer and afterwerds moved to Chicaugo, Ill.^[8]  I know nothing of his family he may be still living.

        Aaron was a carictor.  I never new him until his old age.  He had in his younger years a farm in the valley beneath my birth place and was concidered the first man in the county.  He was magistrate of the town in which he lived and was sent to the New York legislator.  While poor he was industirous and energetic but as he became easy in sercumstances he became whimsical and Hypoconderical he got to think that the outdoor are [air] hurt him and for ten years he never went out of dore.  About this time he sold or traded his farme in the hollow as we used to call it for some four hundred acares near Cleveland Ohio.  Cleveland was then a very small place and the country round a wilderness.  The trade was made the move was the difficulty: but difficulty again called forth his energes.  And draped in two or three overcoats and wolin mittons on, in the month of June he started on his pilgramage for the west.  They tell me that his walk over the mountains was rather warm and he came to the conclusion that he could drive his team without the mittons he pulled them off and as he survived it he at differant times during the long drive got first one overcoat off and then another until the day he arived on his new farme he was seen actualy in his shirt sleeves choping down a tree.  He continued to labor hard for some years and enjoyed good health and the cool breezes but when affluance began to crown his labors and golden fields began to smile around him he again sank into that Hypocondrices and for fifteen or twenty years he never left his house.  I visited him during this last attack he would hurrey me to close the room when I came in altho it was mid summer And complain of the distress the are [air] gave him.  He would converse freely and very inteligently.  At this time he was in the habit of taking opium to excess.^[9]  He died about 1850 I dont know the name of his wife.^[10]

        He had three children Liles, Isrel, and Cynthia who married a brother of my mothers.^[11]

        Daniel Hubbard moved to the middle of the state of Ohio where he lived and dyed.  He had a son Daniel a minester in the Prespiterian Church.

        Margera [Margery] married a man by the name of James Elis^[12] an unprincipaled ignorant man and raised an ignorant and with few exceptions unprincipeled family.  They live in Fulton town Schoharrie.  Margera I believe a Christian woman.

        Iseral lived some fore milds from fathers I was never at his house but once.  He was in some things a strange man He was never known to speak on the subject of Religon he died as he had lived carless of the future.  His wifes name was Betsy.^[13]  My father tells me a tale connected with their courtship that may be more amusing than rare.  The tale runs thus.  The bewitching fair to deceive her lover and about a speady union which no doubt ought to have been consimated before, wore pads on her ample front making him believe an nameless one was about to appear.  She sent her parrents to enforce the match by applying to my Grandfather.  They were married but the looked for one did not make its apearance for some years.  They were however a very happy couple peace be to there ashes.

        They had four children Orrey [Ira], Betsey, Hannah, and Limon^[14].  Betsey married Nelson Bump a man of honor and man of means.  They now live in Windham.  Orra is dead^[15].  Hanah married a Rogers and is now living at Bloomington this state [Illinois].^[16]  Limon lives in Catskill on the Hudson.  he is a wagon maker.

        Solomon with his family moved at an erley day to Buffalo and died at the age of about forty of Palipus [possibly polypus, Latin for nasal tumor] in the nose.  He had I believe but six childran, Justic Elias, Electa, Julia, Solomon and Silas.^[17]

        Justic the oldist was a man of conciderable mind, married an English lady, or widow^[18], but he became inperat and his affars becoming involved his wife proposed going to England and get money that was coming to her but died the day after her arivel home, this was the tale written to him and may have been true.  I believe however that she may still be alive: a good plan to get red of him.  Justic came to my fathers on his way from New York seeing his wife off.  I can see him now as he used to walk up and down and sing The birds without barnes poor fellow he is now without a barn.  The last time I saw him he was a common drunken hod carrier frequenting the lowist haunts of mice, and no doubt ere this fills a drunkerds grave, age about 61.  He and his brother Elius were the only Hubbards I have ever known fond of drink.

        Elias Hubbard.  Was a merchant [in] Buffalo and at one time became rich.  He married at about thirty five a fashionable heartless woman^[19] and family difficultes drove him to drink and finally crazed his brain he died in this state [Illinois] at about the age of forty five.

        Solomon Hubbard^[20] is a lawyer living in Danvill New York a man of some tallent.

        Silus Hubbard^[21] is a Physician  Practiced maney years in Buffalo now lives in Bloomington, Ill.

        Julia^[22] married a man by the name of Dority they live in Stillwater Michigan.

        Amitta^[23] married Abija Hulbert  They lived and died on a farm a little above my fathers place.  They were an excentric couple but as good as people could be.  There habits were simple there wants few.  they lived within there own resorses.  I dont suppose they spent fifty dollars a year.  They made there own cloth for men and womens ware, and it did one good to see the lusty girls come out in winter with their flanel dresses.

        There children were Lois, Daniel, Clara, Lucena, Julia Anne and Phoebe.

        Many plesant instence can I recall of this family some of them may come in in the course of my remarks upon myself.

        Rosanah^[24] married Samuel Scofield.  I never saw her she had a number of children I know very little of them.  Derias the only one who had aney sense died early he was preparing for the ministry.  Samuel Scofield the last I hird of him he was living with his fifth wife a perfac Blue Beard.

        Miles^[25] the youngest of the family was born about 1796.  He lived I believe in Shemung [Chemung, NY] county.  He always came to visit us one in two years this was always sure and if he can find aney of the family in the old neighberahood no doubt he still makes his visits.  He was a very plesant man and I always looked forward to his visits with much pleasure.  He's now living with his second wife I have no knowledge of his family

        Now comes the most important history the branch already so illusterous I mean that of Moses Hubbard.  I omited in the beginning of this a very important portion of history.  I cant like the Chines date my origen back to the begining of the world but I am proud to say that I can trace it back to an illusterous English family one long known in history.  And how proud we Americans are to be able to clame relation with historic names in the old world.  I am glad however that this feeling is growing less strong and the time will come when all we wish to know is that we are Americans.  That name is Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog.  A book I would recomend to my ancesters.

        Moses Hubbard was born about the year 1779.  His birth place was old Hadam a town on the Coneticut river at which place he spent his early childhood.  He was only seven years old when his father removed to Durham New York.  Here within a mild and a half of what they called fink street he remained until he was neer grown when his father removed again to the Broom hills.

        He married at an early age, Electa Lillick^[26] and resided with his little family just above Aaron Hubbards in the (hollow) as the valley was called.  His wife did not live but a few years.  She and fore children died within a very short time leaveing him again entirely alone in the world.  He says that he felt at this time like giving up and it was a long time before he could rouse himself to believe that there was aney more pleasure for him on earth.  There is a superstition connected with the death of his wife that he used to tell but I doubt whether he had aney belief in it himself.  It was this.  A few months before the death of his family while lying awake one night he hird a horred schreem of a woman and after that three or fore crys of infants.  This of course was thought of after there deaths.

        He remained a widdower for several years, and then married Abbigal Titus^[27] (a young lady taking the evidance of contempores of very greate beauty)  About this time he moved upon the old homested farme on broom hills^[28] and took charge of his parrence.  Grandmother however did not live many years an incident now happened tho of no importance shows the superstition of the time.  A partrage or Phesant came to the house tame as a barne yard fowl entered the house and went under the bed of my grand parrents they took it out and it would not fly away.  Grandmother dyed shortly after and this unusual thing was looked upon as a forerunner of the event.  I aught to have mentioned that the hin insisted upon going to the perticular bed and dyed beneath it.  Grandfather lived to a ripe old age ninty four years^[29].  He was buryied in the old burying ground in Smithton^[30] hollow.

        My father continued to live in the old place and in the same old house until he was some fifty six 61^[31] years old.  The house he repaired plastering some of the rooms and my Brother Paul put up several buildings a barne, a shop and wood house.  I well remember that before the repares were made of which I speak on the house it was very open almost like a barne. The winter before the repars were made my father moved his family to a house belonging to Trion Cook a fourth of a mild off.  The winter was a very cold one and the family all had measols during the winter and it appeard to be almost a providance that we were in warme quarters.  Paul and I used to sleep in a room called the west room this room never had any heating and when the wind blew it came through between the clabords in all directions.  I have seen the snow drifted in heaps acrost the flore.  In Apr 1838 [1837 changed to 1838] my father and Fredrick Stewart a brotherinlaw bought four hundred acres of land in Fultonham township.  Stewart moved on the land at once, and the following winter my father sold his broom farme to Richard P. Cook for $1,600 and in the Spring he moved to fulton.  Much of this history must necisarily be again rehursed when I come to my own life so I will pass over it lightly at presant.  We remained in Fulton two years then we bought the old Hamblin place in Durham this was a bad move.  It involved him in debt and in three years he was reduced almost to penurey.  He could not make the payments and was obliged to sell at a reduced price.  After this he and my mother lived in different places sometimes in Oak Hill^[32] sometimes in Schoharrie.  My mother died in Oak Hill after a lingering ilness brought on by greefe at the loss of Marey my youngest sister.  After mothers death father wandered from place to place staying a few days with one of his children and a few days with a friend was happey and cheerfull and the greate burden of his thoughts were on religon I believe he was a very devoted man.  He died at Abija Hulberts on broom hills at as neer as I can acertain about 77 years of age.  His remains ly in the old berial ground east of Uncle Abijas.

        There was ten children in my Fathers family.  The eldist Electy married Fredric Stewart had a large family and died in Fulton in her thirty third or fourth year.  She was a Christion.  I could not well say more for her for she was married and gon from home before I was born.  She had a son very neer my own age.  Robert he and I were like damon and Pithios.  The most pleasant recolections of my childhood are of him.  The names of her children were Robert, Antonett, Abegil, Lorenzo Ritchard, Martan and Hariet.  These children all live at this presant time in Fulton.  Electa was married when only seventeen years old and father was so opposed to the match that he would not come to the room to witnise the seramoney and for several years he had nothing to do with Stewart he never visited him after a time it was all made up and they remained during life on the most frendly turmes.  Elicta died with scroffilo [scrofula] well do I recolect the night when she took coald.  We had all been to preaching in the old school house in Fulton the room was crowded and very warme the are [air] chilly outside and in coming out She took cold and from that time she had pain in her brest and after awhile it broke into running soors.  She lived several years, and was a greate sufferor.

        Lorenzo Hubbard  My earliest recolections of him are of a young man grown working on the farme with father.  He left home when I was very young probibly not more than four years old.  I recolect him coming home every month or two he was teaching for a while in middelburg.  Then he went to studdeying medison in Schoharrie in Dr Fosters office.  I can see him now as he used to come along the road above our house the distance to Schoharrie was about twenty milds he used at this early time to walk.  He attended lecturs in Castelton.  Father furnishing him money.  A good deel of the money was borrowed of welthy neighbors and much of it repaid after I became of considerable size.  After Graduateing in Castelton he attended a course of Lecturs in New York and also graduated there.  By this time he had got his ideas very much elavated. And when he came home he talked large of fights etc.

        He settled in Schoharrie and told big stories of his success.  Made twenty dollars before breakfast and made our doteing Father very proud and realy believe that he was making fifteen hundred dollars a year when in fact he was not making a living and was so hard pushed for money that he made noats and signed my Fathers name to them and got the money on them.  I recolect Father being obliged to pay several I dont know how maney of these notes to keep him from prossicution.

        He married at the age of twenty two Eve daughter of Dr. Vandyke^[33].  Eve was a refined well edgucated woman and made him a frugal wife.  There was however very little in common between them and Lorenzos secracy in regard to his business matter made her at times unhappy.

        He remained for several years in Schoharrie and then moved to Durham.  He was a violent Whig when he left Schoharrie in the morning but on ariving in Durham at night had become a stauch Democrat.  The leeding men in Durham were Democrats.  Hear he remained for several years and enjoyed a lucrative practice.  In the mean time Father moved to the town ship on the old Hamlin place.  The farm was situated nearly half way between Durham Vilage and Oak Hill one of the most lovely places in the world.  The Farm was bought with money my father had coming from the sale of the old Broom farme.  Lorenzo acted as Fathers agent and in sted of having the deeds made out in fathers name he had it deeded to him which made him in possession of all Fathers property  I need not comment on this act.  Three years after this Lorenzo traded two hundred acres of land of fathers for a farme in South Durham and the half of a Drugg store in Saugarties and moved in the fall to that place.  He hear went into practice and had a fare run of business  He was then about thirty two years old at this time, was very gentelmanly in his manners and had attained a degree of worldly wisdom that plased him fare ahead of the common hird.  His figer was straight and he was fastidious in his dress and vain of his personal appearance.  I visited him frequently in Saugarties at which time, we spent much of our time in the mountains geoligiseing  He had from youth a tast in that way and contributed largely to the survay of the State Geologist in the eastern part of the state and His name is mentioned honerably in the reports.

        Lorenzo had as I have before hinted a weekness for aristocratic sociaty and a spruce appearance.  I used to be flattered and amused after I became a man grown and visited him from Baltimore a dashing young man at his interaduceing me to his friends with such an are [air] my brother from Baltimore.

        L. remained about four years in Saugarties had got very much in debt had borrowed money and became harrased to deth with bills.  So far he had failed in all his worldly scheemes.  He now moved to New York and settled on eight Avenew Abington Synair.  Furnished his house well and went into practice.  here he remained I think about two years.  I think he had a hard time to get along and became discouraged.  About this time the gold discoveries were made in Calafornia and he with a doz others purched a bark and went round the horne.  He left his family in NY now consisting of four children.  I will not attempt to relate the hardships they encountered alone out of money in a friendless city.  L. arrived in Calafornia sole owner of the bark the rest of the company had become disgusted with the see and everything that floated upon it so they sold out cheepe.  Once in Sanfranciscoe he set about him for the main chance and soon obtained a good situation in shape of Phisician to the Hospital with a salery of ten thousand dollars a year this he held for two years when a new Hospatel building was erected  he purched the old building and site and put up a large Hotell the Premelen (rather Russian)  He had the building about half finished when a greate fire broke out in the Sacromento.  which rased the price of lumber to such an extente that in finishing the building he broke up it was said he was worth fifty thousand dollars.  I received tickets to a grand opening ball at his Hotell.  He still remained in Sanfransiscoe for some year or more but had become very unpopeler  He next went to Oragon^[34] I cant say what he did there he was at a U.S. fort and probibly was a Surgon.  I ought to say that for the most part of the time he sent a liberal support to his familey which also alowed his sons to attend colage.

        After he returned to Calafornia he settled in Marys Ville^[35] and published and edited a medical Journal.  His oldest son went out to him (Charles.)  he was grown and is now a lawyer in Mariesvill.  After a seperation of ten dreary years his wife went to him with the rest of the children or at least they all soon followed.  The younger children had no memory of their Father.  L. is at this time in Marysville as far as I know and hear I will end his history for the presant.^[36]

        Since writing the above I have received a letter from L.  he gives me an account of his family^[37].  His oldest Daughter Lis is married, to a Mr. Boon.  Charles and VanDyke were both lawyers.  They are now I lern in the armey.  VanDyke is a majer.

Quincy Ill  Jan 18th, 1862

        Phebe Hubbard

                I can write but little of her.  Among my first recolections of her is of her spining and weaving and maney a little pare of pants have I had of her weaving.  After the cloth was made it was sent to Mr Pryers pooling machiene, pulled and dressed and then for years Pheba made our cloths.  An other recolection of her is of a fine young man visiting her and after a while her marrage.  I did not see her married it took place a[t] F. Stewarts Father being opposed to the match.  Francis Norwood her husband had always been a grate faverate of our family with the one exciption and we were always glad to see him come.  When ever Father was away he would come.  After there marrage Pheba used to come and see us often (they lived in a part of the old peoples house) father was just as glad to see her but would not allow Fransis to come to our house. We all visited them.  This state of things went on for several years but finely a reconciliation took place.  I dont know how or when.  It was most problbly spontanious.  Francis in fathers eyes was ever after a greate man in the world.  Pheba had one childe while living in this place Hirum, he was a delicate childe and dyed at about the age of a year and a half.  I saw him dye and it was the first death I had witnesed.   and it impressed me very forceably.  The distress of the parrents was most heart rending.  In all my life I have never witnessed greater greafe.  The father crying aloud ringing his hands.  From this place they moved to Levingstonsvill or as we used to call it Pumpken holler.  Francis kept a tavarn.  I shall never forget the winter that he moved the deepe snow and drifts making it almost impossible to travel.  They lived here several years afterwards moved to Prestons Hollow and afterwards to Fultonham neer where Father and Stewart lived.  I was never there while they resided in that place.  They now live in Levingstonsville again  They have now foure children all grown.  Nancy the elder is married.  The names of the others are Emery, Ervin [Irving] Mary Electy, Abigal, Moses.^[38]

        Pheba is now an old woman and not in good health I will probibly never see her again.

        Nancy Hubbard.

                Nancy was next younger than Phoebe I onely recolect her as a woman.  My first rememberances of her are of a fine looking fleshey young woman.  I can relate but very few instances of her early life she was never married altho I can recolect young men comeing to see her and she would not even give them incouragement enough to keepe company with them  She was weded to her saveier and was one of the most devoted christions I ever know.  How often have I herd her pray in prayer meetings  She was very gifted and oh how she pored out her whole soule to God I never herd such prayers

        She used to teach in the summer in some district schoole and come home every two weekes.  The school seldum farther than ten miles off.  I used to go for her and take her again on horse back rideing behind her.  Most generaly she would send me back within a mile of her school house walking the remainder of the way.  After we moved to Fulton she taught in Waldons vill.  She was very particular in her dress alwas in fashon still apparrently setting no part of her mind upon it.  She had saved considerable money from the small amount of her schools year after year and had it at interest.

        After Father moved to Durham Nancy stayed mostly at home and after Fathers failier she was a good deele at Lorenzos.  The summer that I studdyed medison with Lorenzo in Durham Nancy was there we were in a Bible class together and spent a very plesant summer  I was then grown to be a companion for her and she loved me most devotedly and she bestowed all care and affection upon me.

        After this summer I dont think we met but once and that was at Pauls.  She was sick was just recovering from an atac of Pulmonary appoplecy to which she now had become subject she scarcely knew me and in her next letter she sayed she could scarcely reolise that she had seen me I was when I received this letter in Lancaster on the Potomac in Va. and while there I received an other letter announceing her death.  She had gon to Saugarties on a visit to Lorenzo and while there had an other atact and dyed.  her remains were removed to Windham and bureyed beside Mother and Marey.

        Ruth Hubbard  The next sister in rotation was also grown when I can first recolect.  She was large in stature.  Dark eyes and hare and limphatic in temprament.  She had very little tast for reading in fact was a very poor schollar altho she had the same opertunites of the Distric schools  She was social in her natiour warme in temperament an even disposition.  an exelant cook and houskeeper generaly.  She married at about the age of 26 Datus E. Rugg, an honest industerous frugal young man who was then a Blaksmith.  They lived for a number of years in Oakhill and we enjoyed intercorse with them.  Mother dyed with them.  She moved with her husban to New York some five or six years after there marrage and remained there a year perhaps and moved back to Oak Hill. and afterwards moved to Coocks Sockie [Coxsackie].  Here Datus taught music instrimentle and vocle.  From here they returned again to New York.  This time her husband engaged in the manufactoring of Juelry and remained some ten or twelve years I visited them once while they remained there they were comfortabley situated.  In 1860 she removed with her husband to Mo Columbia where Paul lives  there they remained a year and removed to Columbus Ill.  where they remained until the fall 1862.  She and her husband came to my house and remained several weeks our intercourse was very pleasant we talked over and over the instances of our childhood and everything conected with the old home on Broom Hills.  At this Presant writing she is at or neer Bloomington Ill. at sister Elizas.  Ruth had one son, a boy of good mind but lazy habits.  It was no use sending him to school he would not studdy and his habits and tasts led him to choos the most vicious and low asociates.  He is now nineteen years old and is in the armey but prefers favering sickness and lying around the hospitals to fighting for his country His name is Auston.  Here I will close this history for the present.

        Paul Hubbard.  I really do not know how to begin this essa.  Paul was my big brother six years older than myself  I always looked upon him as almost a man.  He was alwas larg for his age and became a man in reality at seventeen.  His mind in some things matured rapedly and had our father given him a good chance of edgucation he would have been able to fill almost any position in life.  His mind took a mecanicle turne and I can well remember that he was always whitteling.  I suppose he was not over twelve years old when he made the frame of a barn entire rafters braces gurths beeme sills and posts everything entire.  The timbers were made of split Hemlock.  The frame was perhaps sixteen inches by twenty four.  This was his first effort at fraiming or building by the time he was seventeen he had put up a barn on our farm a wood house and a shop for himselfe.  While he was quite a boy he made a sawmill in miniture the spring branch west of the house fell a few feete just before reaching the road here he made a dam (this dam was cauld Pauls dam and no dout is so called to this day) put in his floom and first attached a fly wheele then his plan enlarged and he atached a pitman and crank and many a pond of water was drown out making this wheele fly round and the pitman bob up and round houre after houre would he watch this wheele rain or shine it mattered little to him.  Finely the thing developed into a miniture mill with saw and carage houns and head blocks, gig and trundle.  this took weeks and perhaps months to accomplish.  The principel time that he got to work at it was early in the morning before breakfast and maney and many a scholding can I recolect of his geting becaus he would not come in to prayers sometimes he would have to be called three or four times.  but would be so terable busey with the mill that he could not tare himselfe away.  After it was compleeted he used to amuse himself by the houre sawing rotten wood his tin saw not cuting sound woods very redily.  The frosts and snows of winter and perhaps the fluds of Spring made a reck of the mill.  at aney rate it disappeared. but some other summer on the same site there sprung up a deminitive Gristmill with bass wood stones.  I cant say that it was ever fully compleated.

        As I finish this a vision of a little faning mill not larger than a good sized coffe mill springs up in my mind.  This was a complete little machine, hopper, sives, fans everything complete and was usefull in cleaning musterd seeds and flower seeds.  This mill was the delight and admiration of every body and this with the fraime of the little barn gained him the reputation of being inginious through out the whole hill countery.

        In these days it was the habit of people in winter to go out and spend the evening the whole family and it was at these evening partes that these little curiosites wer always exhibited and Paul would stand with face glowing and eyes dancing with delight listening to the prais and astonishment of the beholder.  Father was so proud of these works of art as the artesen.

        At about the age of fourteen Paul went to a barn raising the carpenter Elicier Umphrey was one of the crack workman of the country.  Paul made fun of the joints and filled some of them with mud the old man got very mad and told the boy that he better go home and mind his own business.

        A few years after this he was master builder and maney are the barns and houses that he bossed before he was eighteen years old.

        In writing this history I find I am not going acording to the way that events followed each other and now I am going back again to his school days.  He used to attend school only in winter and studdyed but little besids reading and Daybaulds arithmatick.  He was always a poor reader.  I recolect being with him in shcool one day and on our return home just after passing the turne of the road from Smithland towards the hill a well dressed boy came runing after rus swaring at Paul and daring him to fight.  P. payed no attention to him but trudged on  the boy followed up and with both fists gave him several blows in the posterior.  P. turned round and the boy fell back and left after he was gon I asked P. why he did not whip the boy  his answer was I dont want to hurt the boy  I could thrash him in a minute if I wanted to.  He was not the least riled aparently by the blows.  I never know him to fight if he ever got into a fight I never hird of it and as a man he is very eaven tempered.

        I spoke of P's building a shop he made a turning lath and used to turne bed sleds and almost all kinds of things and I well recolect that he did not like it if the shavens made in the shop was all used up  he wanted them to throw out to make a show of work in front of the shop.  I recolect he let quite a lot acumolate one time and then throew them out after the work was acomplished he sat looking proudly at them for some time and then remarked to me that it was a good pile: he evidantly believed that a workman was knoon by his chips.

        I have often wondered what his dreems of ambition was when he built this shop or whether he mearly built it for presant gratification with no refferance to the future.  I believe I never knew him to make but one sale and that was of a little seven by nine picture fraim  It was ordered by John Cline in the morning who was to call in the evening.  He made the frame fastening the corners by sawing in and puting in a thin piece of wood in the slit.  I asked him at the time if he thought it strong enough, he said it was good enough for old Cline.  He was to have sixpence for it  when Cline came back he wanted him to take a twelve and a half note (shinplaster) on Jim Potter and give him the change  This P. indignantly refused and Cline refused to take the frame unless he did aleging that P had agreed in the morning to take it.  The picture fraim remained on a shelf in the shop for years.

        The winter that P. was eighteen he went to Schoharrie to the Acadoma to school.  He there attended dancing school and come back very much improved, but he and I halled rock to make wall and attended to other farming work as usuel that summer.  The next winter I think he went to Durham to studdy medison with Lorenso.  One summer he worked with Mr. Rugg a millwright and after that he worked frequently reparing the machenery of Hands tan factory.  He was at one time puting up a shed for Hand after Father moved on the Hamblin place and was in a hurrey to get through with it and I told him I would come up and help him.  I did so at night he had a cleen bed prepared for me  we slept at the general bording house for hands at the factory.  his cloths were soiled with tan and he would not sleepe with me but went in to an other room and slept with one of the hands.

        When Father moved to Fulton he went with us.  and during the summer worked with us and perhaps the first winter.  The secont winter it may have been he went to a place beyond gallopsville and taught a school  the neerest farme to this country school house was Mr Domonicks and consequently Domonicks Elib was the young lady that was most convenient at hand.  so he of course fell in love, I know nothing of the romantic courtship all I know is the fact.*^[39]  The summer after this Father moved to Durham on the old hamblin place  P came home worked part of the time at home and part of the time at the facorey as I have before said.

        That winter he was married and moved his wife into a part of our house which he had previously prepared.  I was not at the weding and never saw his wife until he brought her home.  She was a fine looking lady like dutch girl and has made him an exelant wife.  The next summer P worked with us on the farme and along late in the fall he went to Castelton Medical College and attended a course of lectures.  In the autom he attended an other course and gradguated, and setteled in Sciancevill Windham  I visited him the fall after he moved there  he was living in a log house not more than two rooms but had everything very comfortable around him  in the next summer he put up a very comfortable house in which he lived several years I dont know how maney and then moved to Anshondsvill six milds below.  Here he also built a house.  I was living at this time in Philadelphia he visited me there.  After his return to Anshondsville he removed to Gallapsville neer his Fatherinlaws.  He got discouraged hear and I persuaided him to come to Philadelphia and study Dentistry.  I got him a place with Dr. Calvert a fine block workman where he remained a number of months when he with us all came west  we went to Columbia Mo where he still remains.  When he went in there he had two compeditors who had the most of the business he soon drove them out and has now for six or seven years had the field alone.  He has bought twelve acres of land in the town and built him a fine house and before the war came on was making money.  He has so far road out the storme of secession safely and will probibly stand it through.

        Paul had three children Dominick, Socrates and Ermind.  Dominick dyed soon aftir his return from Calafornia at the age of six.  The circumstances of his death were distresing in the extreem.  He fell from a horse his father was leading and apparently without serious injurey the next day he was taken with violent pain and dyed in fearfull agoney.  Socrates is now in the Navel School Rode Iseland and is a very promising youth of seventeen.  Ermind is now about 12 or 13 years of age and a very pretty and spritely child.

        This scketch has been written in my office where I was very frequently interupted often stoping for hours in the middle of a sentance leaving it thus sometimes for hours and days.  It is therefore in maney respects incoret: but it must pass as it is.

        *During the winter that P lived in Salipsvill teaching he became religos and has I believe lived a consistant Christion life.  He united his lot with the methodest.  Since the for going was written Paul has gon into the service he is Surgon of the 61 Mo Regiment where he is stationed I do not know.^[40]

Feb. 13th 1863

        Eliza Hubbard.  Eliza came next to Paul was neerer my own age and was consequently more of a companion  She was tall well formed and I may say a very fine looking young lady.  I can relate but little of her as a childe only that she was sprightly full of fun and frolick:  When she was about seventeen she went to Durham and remained one summer working with some lady a milener.  When she came home Paul make her presses for ironing and blocks for shapeing and vaper baths for bleaching Laghorn Bonits.  She did a little at this but not much.  She remained with us when we moved to Fulton and after we returned to Durham and taught with Sally Orcut in Durham one summer.

        Eliza was at home when I left home for good.  She was married I think about a year after I left to N.C. Bump.^[41]  He had been courting her for several years.  but she found it hard to make up her mind.  Bump upon the whole has made her a good husbond  he was for a time intemperant and I suppose even now he sometimes gets on a spree.

        They first setteled in Windham I visited them several times there  they lived on a farme about a mild from Aushondsvill back on the mountan a very pretty place and they lived very comfortably

        They had two children I think in Windham Adalade and Rosa.  They moved to the west about 1850 and setteled neer Bloomington on a farme.  I visited them while on there farme and also after they moved to town.  They had an other childe here that dyed at the age of about two.

        They are now living ten milds from Bloomington on a farme  There two daughters are about grown  Eliza has a greate deel of the Hubbard in her composition.  Sees a greate deel of trubble, and a greate deel of the time thinks everything going conterary with her.

        Lucia Hubbard was born Dec 1822  She was smaller than aney other of the girls of our family  had blew eyes and was very pretty beeing but three years older than myself we were of course companions.  After Lorenzo married she went and lived with him for several years  he sent her to school and she got a good edgucation  she first lived with him in Schoharrie and also for a time after he moved to Durham.  She went with the rest of the family to Fulton and during the summer taught in some of the neighboring districts.  About this time she becam acquainted with Soloman Smith a widower who was living neer Sallopsvill  they corresponded for some two years.  The winter after we moved to Durham they were married he did not make a kind husband  her life was short and a sad one.  She had several children  I cant say how maney.  Smith got to drinking and finly became crazy they separated  Lucia went to New York and remained with Lorenzo but finely they went together again  Smith had become sane but was very poor  they went to Gilboa^[42]  Smith kept a gate on the Turn Pike here  a few weeks after confinement she died.  She was sitting up in bed feeling pretty well  all at once she fell back and was gon  I allways feele sad when I think of poor Lucia  no member of our family comenced life more hopefull than she and none more worthey but her life was of continual sorrow.  She had an offer in marrage by a young Physition a worthey young man but when it came she was engaged to Smith and was to honerable to breake it but she bitterly regreted it afterwards.

        Smith and his sons volenteared in the Infantry service of Ill and were in the battle of Pea Ridge.

        Marey Submitt Hubbard was born March 26, 1828  she was the youngest of the family and a greate pet.  She was smart very spritely quick to lerne and had a fine musical talent  could play well on several instruments.  When I left home she was scarce grown up and I saw her but a few times afterwards.  She taught one or two years in the schools of Windham and lived in the mean time with our parrence who ware then in Windham.  She took a violent colde coming from Oakhill which turminated in Pneumonia and died on the 24th of April 1847 aged 19 years and 29 days.  Her life was short and gay full of life eminantly social she was in sociaty a ___horet and was the gayest of the gay.  Before her death she expressed a beliefe that she was prepared to dye but did not to the very last believe that she would not recover.

        Since commencing this History I have obtained a record of our own familey Births marrages Deaths etc. which I will incerte.

        Births

Moses Hubbard was born                Sep 5 1779

Abigil Hubbard was born                July 21, 1785

Electa Hubbard was born                Feb 4 1808

Lorenzo Hubbard was born                Dec 7, 1809

Pheba Hubbard was born                Sep 9, 1811

Nancy Hubbard was born                Feb 16, 1814

Ruth Hubbard was born                        Jan 30th 1816

Paul Hubbard was born                        Aug 14th 1818

Eliza Hubbard was born                July 24th 1820

Lucia Hubbard was born                Dec 1822

Socrates Hubbard was born                Mar 19, 1825

Mary Hubbard was born                Mar 26th 1828

Marriages

Moses & Abigal Hubbard were married April 30th 1807

Electa Hubbard & Frederick Stewart were married 1823

Pheba Hubbard & Francis Norwood were married Oct 1832

Lorenzo Hubbard & Eve Vandike were married Jan 14th 1834

Paul Hubbard & Elibe Dominick were married Nov 24th 1841

Lucia Hubbard & Solomon B Smith were married Nov 25, 1841

Ruth Hubbard & Datus E Rugg were married June 9th 1842

Eliza Hubbard & Newton C Bump were married Mar 24th 1845

Socrates Hubbard & Sophia R Snowden were married Nov 13th 1851

Deaths

Electa Hubbard died June 26th 1844

Nancy Hubbard died Nov. 17th 1847

Mary Hubbard died Apr 24th 1847

Lucia Hubbard died June 14th 1852

Abigal Hubbard died Jan 20th 1848

Moses Hubbard died Oct 27th 1853

Pheba Norwood died Oct 1865

Ruth Hubbard Rugg died Nov 2ed 1855

Lorenzo Hubbard died at Camp Bidwell Cal Oct 3ed 1871

Socrates Hubbard died June 11 1888

Sophia R. S. Hubbard died April 4th 1890

SOCRATES HUBBARD

        I now commence to write the storey of my own life.  For some reasons I shrink from the task.  The labor of such an undertakeing is no small matter:  but then to relive my life over again in memory and reconstruct the anciant habitations and to people them anew with formes long departed will be a pleasure.

        I was born on the 19th of March 1825 and first opened my eyes to the world on the old Broom Hills, amid the most romantic and sublime seanery in the world.  The house in which I was born was situated on the side of the mountain neer a mild from its base over looking the Catskill mountains that were spred out in front like an imence panerama.  The view extended for forty milds towards the east across the Hudson to the mountains in Coneticut blew in the distance.  Imediately in front some three to five milds and possibley seven or eight miles to the top of the oposit mounton lay hundreds of farmes.  Each farm with its sunny farme house and out buildings, the orchard the little patch of wood land, the ploughed fields and fields of corne potatos rye & medow Buckwheete.  all giving a different coller of green, each field small only containing four to eight acris, gave a most pleasing prospict.  With the naced eye we could see what all our neighbors were doing for ten milds sround.  See when they commensed to plough, when they planted when they commenced to reepe etc. and we could see cattle and sheap feeding to the very mountain top.  The variaty in this picture was immence, ever vareying, from the soft unfolding spring to the maturing summer, and ripening autom.  I think no place in the world looked half so beautiful as this when the mountain forists were clothed in the maney coulers of fall. The bright yellow of the hard maple, the fire like scarlet of the soft maple the amber ash, and iron wood.  With all the varing coulers of the oaks the beach and the walnut.

        Winter too had its charmes the old man horey and stern sat a king.  The distant mountain sides glistened in the sun like literal mountains of christle.

        The month in which I first saw the light was cold and blustery and I no doubt mingled my squalls with the dismal howls Of the March wind that played around the old dweling and clamed even enterance through the unplastered wals of my mothers bed room.  At this time there was not a room in the house plastered and the only way that the family kept from freezing was by having close curtened beads [beds]  Of course my recolections of that night are meger:  In fact the first that I recolect of my self is three years yes near four years after this time finding myself seated upon a flight of stares listening to the wind, and oh how it whisteled around the corners of the old dwelling.  I was thinking of what mother, had told me, that I would be four years old in March and in my mindes eye I saw Old March in forme like an Indian mogason.

        Time flew on and March with her blustering winds had passed by.  All is oblivion.  Again I seam to awaik from this oblivion I am seated on what was called the walk in front of the house (but realy a wall terres) clothed in a suit of striped calico (probibley coat and pants).  Waiting for mother and father to come out. The old ball-faced black mar was harnessed to the little lumber wagon of green box and we were ready to start to Midel-Burg^[43] to visit Elicty.  I was entirely happey with the thought of going.  Now strange to say from this time until we arived there I have no rememberance and all the instance of the visite that I can recolect is siting by a large box stove with Robert Stewart (who was about my own age).  each with a huge lump of loaf sugar, trying to conjecture how it was made.  This is the first of my Philosophic reserches as far as I know.  What sage conclusions we arived at I am by no means certain.  The onely thing that I recolect of the trip back is wakeing as it were from sleepe and looking round.  The place was the fly we wer passing along _ow its bank and the clouds over spred the heavens.

        The next thing that stands out more promenate than other is an trip to Stewarts who had now moved to Levingstonsvill.^[44]  It was in winter and the trip was made in the cutter rigged for one horse with a tung.

        About this time possibley a year later Father had the old house repared.  The winter before was very severe winter.  In the fall we moved into a house of Trion Cooks perhaps a quarter of a mild from our house it was a warm and comfortable house  It was a providence that we had warm quarters during this winter for the whole family was taken down with measels.  There in one room was ten of us all down at one time.  Several was very sick.  Nancy came neer dyeing.  I was also very sick and of course was obliged to take my full share of medison  These were days of big pills no benevolent Homipathest had plyed his arte to reduce the doce.  Among the Pills! (I will never forget it and the bare thought of it now makes me sick) was sheap manure the pills ware rather large for comfortable administration so they were steaped and mad into tea and I suppose quarts of the vile stuff was pored down my throat during that illness.  Health at last came and in mid winter I recolect on some occasion visiting the old Hous how dreere it looked.  the paths around the hous untrod the spring snowed over and within the drifted snow covered the flores tracted up by herds of rats.  I will never forget the dreary picture.

        Spring came at last and the family moved back to the old house lumber was procured and carpenters hired to make repars.  The old siding was torne of new roof put on seller dug.  I remember this was dug by a black man and there is a superstition connected with it told as such things always are after the event has transpired that they are thought to foretell.  It was this one morning very early my mother sayed she hird the old man at work in the seller picking away for an hour or more and after she got up he came to his work he died shortly after this the nois of course was a forerunner.

        Steaven Bull did the carpenter work and Paul worked with him.  I came very neer cuting off my midel toe one afternoon with the ads  I will always bare the scar.

        Insted of sideing the east end of the house was shingeled and also a part of the north side.

        I went to school this summer to Julidett Stewart who taught in the Holembeck districk.  I remember that John Holembeck had a red squerel skin that he wanted to sell me and I was very anxious to purchis but had no money.  I knew where there had been a penney in the Cupboard and told him I would give it to him for the skin  he came home with me neer a mild to get the penney, and I will never forget how cheepe I felt when I climed up to the shelf and looked in the dish and found the pennd gon.  I had no right to the penney so I made no inqueres about it and poor John had to trudge home without making a sale.

        We pass over several years.  I am nine years old or nearly nine  Lorenzo is married and is expected home.  He dos not come when expected but a lot of riaters calling themselves horners came and the first thing I know in the ded of night was the defning discharge of musketrey and the blowing of hornes the rateling of pans the ringing of bells with all the diabolicle noises that could be amagoned.  Paul grabed his cloths and ran to Fathers and mothers room  l followed in my night shirt half frightened to death.  The whole familey dressed and sat about the fire  Father would go down and throw water on them when they came up to fire.  After a while they with drew to get dry and then on they came again.  they were led by one Dock Norwood.  I got so sleepy that during the last salley I slipt.  These hornings at wedings were common in that countrey at that time.  I have known them to tare or breake every glass out of a house.

        A few weeks after Lorenzo did come with his wife and the Diabolical crew gathered again there names was got this time and they were prossicuted.  And each one was fined.  Sometime the next summer Lorenzo came down on a visit that night this same vile crew went into a field of rye that had just been cut and put in shocks they thrashed out every shiefe on the ground and then unbound it and scattered it.  from there they went into our garden pull up corne and everything they could get at.  from there they went into the corne field pulled a wide road to the midel of the field then tore up an half acre or more and made a road out the other side of the feald.  They also tore down a large amount of fence.  It took a long time to write things up agane.

        After this I remained on these hills some five years each year brought about the same events so I will go through with a year beginning in the spring then go on again.

The events of a year.

        It is the first of Aprel the spring is rather backward.  the ground is covered with snow except in a few bleeke spots where the winter winds has blown it off.  The sun is warm and the snow is melting away.  I cut the big bank in front of the house in big blocks three or four feete square and tumbel them out of the yard.

        Father says the sap will run I am very much rejoised for there was always a greate charme to mee in the sugar bush.  We get a fine block saw it off about sixteen inches long split peaces from it with a gouge they are called spiles they are to conduct the sap from the tree to the trough on pan.

        The oxen are yoaked and hitched to the wooden sled.  a large iron kettle a large brass kettel and an iron pott is put on also an empty barrel with one head this is to hold the sap.  We start for the west woods.  Passing through the woods for some distance we come to an open spot on a gentle southern slope.  All the trees are not gon but the under groth for a little space has been cut away.  Here is an old logg that Paul has boiled sap against for succesive years.  and hard by is a large rock blackened by fire and smoke on one side where the kettels have, been hung and maney is the time that I have been here before to help Paul.  to bring his dinner and to play beneath the hemlocks that stood neere by.  Colecting mosses and hemlock bers.  The bers was my sheepe and I would put them in among a forrest of moss to feede.  Rare was the sporte that I had then.  Now I was ten years old and was master of the bush myself or was to be.  The kettels are hung on a pole which is placed on two croched sticks. Then we go to taping the trees.  we have brought a few duzon pans these are first used.  Then the old troughs that have been seting up aganst the trees since last year.  Some of these are roton and split.  We cut down a hemlock eight or ten inches through cut it in logs say two feete long split them in half chop out the center and we have more troughs.  The trees are all taped that stand aney where neer.  The sweet streeme pores out profusely, and by the midel of the afternoon the recepticals are all full.  We go to work gether up the sap fill the kettels and barrel.  get the wood ready for commencement in the morning.  By this time it begins to freeze ice sickels begin to forme on the ends of the spouts.  soon the sap ceases to run.  We now go home.  In the morning I take my diner some bread and two or three slices of raw ham and accompanyed by Lucia go to the works.  The fires are built and everything going right then Lucia gos to school in the hollow a mild off.  I am left alone.  The sun shines warm the banks of snow are melting little rivulets are running from them.  The birds sing cherrely and I feele very contented. I am not lonely.  The fire burnes cheerfully around the kettels leaping up and licking in the dry branches that I placed around.  There is a greate deel of company in fire it is all the time doing somthing and then it is an unruly servent you are obliged to watch it closely to keep it from doing harm.  Then it is like a ravonus beast you are obliged to feed it constantly to keep it alive.  Then the sap in the big kettels, was all the time floping up and if I did not mind it would flop over.  The time passed swiftly enough until I thought from the appearance of the sun and more from a monitor within that it was dinner time.  I prepared a forked stick put my ham on it and broiled it by the fire.  I dont believe morsel ever tasted more sweete.  This don I went out and gethered sap I found the pans and troughs full some runing over.  I refilled the barrel which I had emted into the kettels and pile more in to be boild.  This done I sat down and watched the fire now and then feedeing it with dry wood.  The afternoon wore away the sun was seting into the west.  The sap in the kettels began to look dark and sweet now and then I try a little diped out in a tin bason with a split stick on it for a handel.  I am now able to put it all into the big iron kettle and that is not more than a third full.  It will soon be molases or surrop.  At last Lucia coms she trye it.  It can be boiled a little longer.  At last we conclude that it is dun and take a pole put is through the bale of the kettle and try to lift it of.  The smoke gets in our eyes we turn round lift and tug but cant lift it.  By this time it begins to burn I try to dip it out in a bucket do get some perhaps a few quarts we throw snow into the pot and in the fire but to no avale our sugar is burned up and we sad and dishartened wend our way home scarce speaking a word by the way our poor little heartes were two full.  In fact we had both been crying all the time while we were trying to save our sugar.  I have had maney a trial since met with losses and disappointments but never felt one more keenly than I felt this first disapointment of my life.

        When we told Father our greefe he went to the woods and took of the kettle and cleaned out the burnt sugar but gave us no word of sensure.  Thus ends day no one in the sap bush.

        The next day bright and early Lucia and I truged agane to the woods.  Father came down in the middle of the day to see how I got along I was glad enough to see him coming.  He stayed an hour or so helped me bring wood and gether the sap and left me alone again.  Toward evening Lucia returned from school and we finished boiling down.  We were more successfull this time in geting of the big kettle, took out the syrrop and was all ready for home.  Lucia sayed she better carrey the bucket that I might fall and spill it.  We started on and had proceeded perhaps four or five rods when she triped on a brush and fell spilling every drop of the syrrop.  Poor Lucia cryed bitterly and on we truged home with another tale of sorrow.  Fathers only remark was you are poor unforchinate children.  This was the last of the misshaps of the season.  The sap season lasted for perhaps three weeks.  The snow gradually melted away until there was only hear and there a drift remaining along the fences.  The buds began to swell and the grass in the pastures and meddows looked so green.  The sap begins to look milkey and will no longer make sugar.  It has nearly stoped runing; but a night comes a little color and there is a little more ice.  This starts a scanty flow of sap.  Now comes the crowning frolick of the season.  All the girls and boys young and old repar to the sugar bush for the candy making.  The sap is gethered the fire built and we ly round on the ground in the hot sun making miniture gardens, and farms in the moss beds and placeing the Hemlock burs in for sheepe to feede on the grass.  Some of us perhaps would be wandering about the woods in sirch of flowers.  On the sunney slopes sheltered from the wond was beds of adder tung and on the south side of stumps and old loggs was found blew white and yellow violets.  These flowers were concidered a greate prize and a little later in the season Lucia and I used to make special trips to the woods in serch of them.  The Solomon seal the enemena [anemone] and the violet even now when I see them seeme like friends of my childhoold.  Time wars on the pot still flops on the sap in it we try a little of it in water to see if it is done.  no not yet.  We make each a Hemlock spatchala to eat candy with for we generaly ate it hot.  We try again it will do now it is taken off and the kettle put on a bank of snow for it is not yet all gon  some one stirs it until it is cool enough to eat then all dip in.  We all eat until we are sick. then go home having had a good time.

        I may be asked what was Father and Paul doing all this time well the first thing they did was go round the farm and put up all the fences.  The winter wind had blown down much of the rale fence.  The heaving frost had tottered over places of the walls these had to be rebuilt.  This don the manure about the barn had to be haIled out in heaps on the land intended for corn.  Then spred.  By this time the ground was fitt to be ploughed.  It is some whare about the 20th of Aprel.  The team used is oxen and they require a driver.  I am the driver Paul holds the plough.  This is teagos business.  Oh how I hated it to go round and round the feald furrough after furrough it seamed as tho the feild would never be don.  How eagerly did I watch the sun to see if it was not almost noon: and listened for the dinner horn.  At last it would come, the oxen were unhitched taken to the barn and fed.  Then we feed and I was usualy ravinous.

        The team was allowed two hours rest how short that nooning seamed. Then we plowed until sun an hour high.  The afternoon was spent in watching the suns decline.  Somtimes the day would be cloudy and cold my work was not enough to keepe me warm and my suffering was intollerable.

        Mother I recolect one season gave me as my hire an egg a day for driveing oxen. I put the egg every night in the till of my chest and after they had accumilated to a dos I went with them to the Hollow and bought some striped calaco.  I can see the patteron now: of this Mother made me a vest.

        During all this time I spent a good deel of time in hunting eggs in the barn and about the place.  That was fun to heare the hens cackel, and romp over the nearly emty barn, on the mows through the stalls under the barn floore looking for nests.

        The plowing is done the oats are sown the spring wheete put in etc.  Paul generaly did the draging in, or Harrowing.  So during this for a few days I had leasure.  Perhaps I would wander through the woods or meddows.  The young leaves by this time began to appear on the mapels and iron wood and thousands of birds sang in there branches buseily employed making there nests.  The sound of there music filled my soul with delight.  The meddows were now yellow with danderlines they show like gold in the bright sun and I loved and caressed them as my companions.

        Then there was places around the house where Marey and I used to build stone play houses.  There was two appel trees in the orcherd east of the house faverate resorts for play and one west of the Spring house I believe that I could find stones now that we piled together.  There was a peace of woods perhaps a hundred yards above the house.  This was a greate place of resort and in the sunney nooks faceing the south we spent much of the time listening to the winds roaring through among the branches of the trees.  These wer happy moments and the sun always moved on quite fast enough.

        Prehaps during this season of leasure mother would say some bright sunney morning come Crate you can go up to Fredericks.  Stewart lived about two milds farther up the mountain west.  I could heare nothing to pleas me better than this.  Somtimes Mary or Lucia would acompany me.  I would start on past Norwoods past uncle Abigas past the old meating house  I always looked the other way and ran with all my might passt it.  I thought I could see ghosts looking out of the windows.  The church stood in the edge of a woods.  I passed several other places playing all along throwing stones at the chipmucks (ground sqerrels) chaseing yellow butter flys from every mud puddle throwing at Bumble bees as we called them (Humble bees).

        In about two houres I would get there Robert and Antonett would most always see me and meet me at the fince.  They were delighted to see me and the day would be spent in rare sports.  Making whistels making play houses running about the woods.  The spruce swamp was just back of there house and extended for thousands of achrs.  The most dence and gloomey wild I ever saw.  One day Robert and I went into the swamp after gum.  There was a kind of path that we had followed for perhaps three quarters of a mile into the depths of the forrest: all at once we hird the hidious yells of som wild beast clost by us it was a Panther or catamount I suppose.  We turned and the way we ran was a caution to hungrey Panthers.  I dont believe I ever made such time before or since. I was ahead and streems logs brush and bogs were cleared with a bound, and I never looked behind me until we were out of the wilderness:  and then I fully expected to see a Panther coming as large as an ox.  It was a long time before we ventured into the swamp again.  The day has passed, the sun is perhaps two hours high I start home.  Robert gos with me for some distance when I get home the sun is nearly down and the lengthening shaddows of mountain peaks stretch along the mountain side like huge ghosts.

In a week or so Robert and Antonett come to spend the day with us. Mary entertains Antonett and R and myself go it wild.  Making underground Chimnes building fire in them etc.  When night comes Mary and I acompany them a part of the way home.

The Sabath and Church

        The morning is bright and a solem stillness seems to pervade all nature.  The very cows seem to know that it is Sunday.  There is no husel about the house  the children are all got ready for Sunday School.

        Mary and myself are at last ready washed and dressed cleene, and start for the church which is perhaps three quarters of a mild off.  We arive there  we are early but few have got there yet: so we sit down on the square blocks of timber in front of the house and look around us.  The church stands in a grove of Beach  the tender leaves have just put out and the soft light green is magnificent.  The birds seem full of joy almost crack there throats with there melodious songs.  The distant mountains seem so blew and peacefull while on the opisit mountain side is seen no signes of labor.  The cattle are seen quiately feeding in the pastures but the plough is left in the furrow, and all shows that it is Gods holy day.  I shall never forget the influence of these peasfull Sabaths.  To say that I was happey would not express the feeling.  My verry soul over flowed with joy and prase to God for the beautiful world he had placed me in.

        At length all are here  Hurshel Hurlbert is the superintendent. There is fifteen or twenty children present.  The opening cervices are solem feeling and seeme to impress every mind taking us as it were into the very presance of our Saveier.  My lesson was the reading a portion of the New Testiment and perhaps saying a few verses.  We had no Question books.  The superintendant was generaly my teacher and how affectionately and earnestly he always pointed me to the way of salvation.  We had some thirty or forty books of the sunday school sermon.  they were kept in a table drawer and were considered by the children a very large liberary.  Books were not so plenty then as now and how eagerly we received one of them and if it chanced to have a picture or two it was a prize indeed.

        The Sabath School generaly closed an half hour before church time. The children generaly remained to meting.  This half hour was spent walking about in the shade of the woods.  Somtimes geting over the fence and going some distance in the center of the wood to a spring and refresh ourselves with the cool clear water.  Then we would sit on the blocks in front of the house watching the people come to church.  They came young ladys from the Hollow and oposit mountain across the fields, climeing the fence in front of the Church.  Then came women carreying there babys. Women and men on horseback.  Lumber wagons full of people, men, women, and children seated on chairs.  Then a lot in a wagon all seated on straw in the bottom.  And now a wagon with a hay rigin on and girls boys and men purched about on it like chickens at roost.

        We have preaching every two weeks and this happens to be preaching day, which accounts for the immence crowd of people  The church or (meeting House as it is always called) is nearly full.  I am siting or standing out yet wating for Father and Mother to come.  Directly Eliza Hulbert comes a tall bashfull awkward girl.  The crowd out side so abash her that she dont see where she is going.  in assending the half doz steps to the church she takes the last step for the church floore and gos to walk in and coms with a loud rattle of elbows and knees upon the floor in side the room.  There was of course maney ill bread and cruil enough to laugh out right.

        The Preacher has come his name is Cook.  The serveses are gon throu with I can tell but little of them at this late day.  After the preaching all the members of the church were invited to remain to class meeting  I was not a member at this time but remained.  The Preacher asked each one the state of his mind and then gave some good advice.  Somtimes mearly saying go on brother, or persevear Sister.  Each one said from Sunday to Sunday about the same thing.  Complants of a hard hearte of neglect of duty living far from Christe hopes of living better and a desire for prayers of Gods people.  I had maney of these little speaches by hearte.

        Servises over we go home and have dinner of bread and milk.  The rest of the day is spent in rest.

An other weeks work

        The corne ground is now to be ridged  my servises come in requisition again in driving the oxen.  This takes several days. This don about the 20th of May we plant the corne  This was always don with the hoe making a soft place drop in the corn and cover with soft dirt.  My business was droping corne.  Neer a week is ocupyed in planting the usual amount of ground five or six acres.  As soon as the corn was planted the crows came in for there share which they dug out of the hills.  To prevent this we took an old coat pants and hat drove stakes in the ground put the pants on stuffed them with straw then the coat stuffing it in the same way.  This crowned with a hat with stick in hand to represent a gun would deceive Mr. Crow for some time.  This was called a scare crow. Hence when a man is none of the best looking or dressed in the very best tast he is said to look like a scare crow.  There was still an other device that Father always resorted to which was to stretch strings of toptow all over the field  Mr Crow was very suspisious of these strings he could not make out in what the precise danger lay but that there was some infurnel trick in it some how he had no doubt and thought it prudant to keepe cleere of them.

        The corn begins to come up and now an other enamy appears that cant be scared by two strings, and straw men.  He coms in the shape of a brown grub.  He coms out of the ground cuts of the tender corne and then burrows in the ground again.  In the morning we go through the field and where ever his work is seen digg around and find him he is usualy clost by coerse him into measures by crushing him.  Then the little chip muck coms in for his share along the finces he has to be shot or drilled.

        A wise man a man of observation some years ago discovered a plan to prevent the Squerels diging up the corn.  It was this.  He had observed that they always dug up the outside row:  His plan was to have no outside row no doubt this would prevent it.

        The corne was now left for two or three weeks.  In the mean time the potato was to be planted.  A peace of sod ground was broken up furrowed then droped with potatos and covered with sods.  An acre of potatos put in in this way would produce several hundred bushels and the best potatos in the world.  They are howed but once then sods heaped around them for the hill.

        The corn is now large enough for the first howing.  I have to ride the horse to plough it out.  It is plowed one way two furrows between each row and then came the howing all the grass had to be pulled out between the stems of corne, and soft loos dirt dressed around it.  This was hard work I would take a row but of course could not keepe up.  Father would every now and then how some hills for me to encourage me.  The days were long, and as I counted every row it seemed as tho it would take forever. It is finely don and after a while comes the second, then the third howing.  This time the furrows were run both ways and the corne hilled up.  We get after several days almost don Father says now lets hurrey boys and get don today and tomorrow we will go to the gulf fishing.  The gulf has a greate charme to me Father and the older children have been in the habit of going to this stream every summer for years  I have not yet been allowed to go.  Once indeed I had set my hearte on going and had got my cap and was all ready and was deceived.  They told me to go out to a tree in the orcherd east of the house and get somthing.  I did not suspict aneything rong:  when I came back they were gon out of sight.  I was very much disappointed and cryed most bitterly.  Now the idea of going filled my heart with delight. The work was hurried and finished.  I could scarce sleepe that night for antisapation of the morrow.  When the morrow came bright and cleere, I was up with the larks.  The sun had not yet began to shine where our place was:  but the distant peaks were gilded as tho bathed in fire.  Gradualy the light crept down the mountain until the full broad rays bathed the whole mountain cide.  A sun rise or a sunsett among the mountains is the most grand thing in nature.  Often you will see a landscape flooded with rays of the seting sun glowing almost as in a furnice while to you the sun has long gon down behind the western chane of hills.  I have maney a time been in valleys where the sun in mid summer would go down at two o'clock in winter seen but for a few hours.  There I have watched the setting sun, then clime the mountan to see hours afterwards the sun again and witness an other sunset.

        The breakfast is over and we are ready angle worms in a box lines and hooks in our pockets.  We have a merrey crowd Ruth Paul Elize Lucia Father and myself.  We commence the assent of the mountain north of the house the grass is covered with due the red and white clover perfumes the are [air], and the modest white dasey studs the fealds with her thousand stars.  As we assind we now and then turn round and look towards the oposet mountain  our view becoms more and more extended until the top is gained.  The view is now most grand mountain peaks and side is visible on the north and to the south.  Mountain peak after mountain peak pileing themselves up one above an other far off in the south.  The highest peak of.the Catskill stands right before us and a little farther down towards the east the Catskill mountain House.  A little while we linger to gaze on this grand seen.  Then enter a path leading into the woods we go along the mountain top until we come to a little opening in the woods an old clearing.  Here we leeve the path and plung into the dence woods and commenced acsending the mountain on the other cide.  The froth of Hemlock and other timbers were so dence that the rays of the sun never entered them.  How cool and damp it seamed in there  Then the altitude was such and on the north side that the leives of the maple and burch had just put out.  The season being more than a month later than it was where we lived less than a mild off.

        We had acsended but a short distance when we came across a swarm of bees on a little bush.  Paul went back home and brought a bee hive and hived them.  we went on and he joined us at the streem

        After decending the mountain for an half hour or so accasionaly diging a wood nut or ginson root we began to hear the roaring of the water.  My hearte leaped with joy.  Father now cut each a fishing pole with a short shoe knife that he brought for the purpos.  (I never knew him to have a pocket knife and (I never had a present of one from my parrents)  The lines were adjusted hooks bated all ready we approached the streem.  I threw my hook in the water and instantly before I had time to think way went my line and a trout almost twitching my pole out of my hand  Quick as thought up came my pole and Mr Trout lay floping on the course gravel.  How butifull he was with his briliant spots darke coat and silver vest.  There he lay panting and strugeling for life and I was exulting over his ruin.  The hook was taken from his mouth rebated and thrown into the streem and in an other instant an other fine fish lay on the bank.  This was before the others began to fish.  If ever a younster felt proud I did then. Had I caught two whales I could not have been more elated.

        I now crossed the stream and the fish were not so eager after this to be caught  I had time to look about me and see what the gulf was of which I had hird so much.  It was a small mountain torrent having its rise in the swamps of which I have before spoken, and ran some four or five milds through a deep mountain gorge and emted into the Catskill Crick a few milds below Livingstonsvill.  It ran among rocks and logs somtimes shouting and roaring at a terable rate among huge rocks, and in one plac leeping forty or fifty feete down a perpendicular ledge.

        The day was spent in uninterupted pleasure every deep hole and ever riffl was fished for mild up and down the stream.  We had a fine string of fish and the pleasure however was what we were after more than the fish.  The sun had gon down but could still be seen shineing on the mountain North.  Our lines were untied poles thrown away and we start for home.  The assent of the mountain is tiresom and slow.  Paul has a tin pail with two fine live trout in water swiming round and darting about, halfway up the mountain in the dence forrest we came to a ledge some ten feet high moss covered and the water dripping in little revulets from the top like the droping from the eaves of a house during a heavey rain this was named Fountain Rock.  Here Paul changed the water in the bucket.  We gained the summit of the mountain again to see the sun an hour high.  The decent to our house was easy and soon acomplished.  The Fish was placed in the Spring where they lived for several years.

Milking

        In the morning Father generaly don the milking bringing and turning to pasture the cows.  At night it was my business to go after the cows.  There was two principle pasturs one in what was called the west lots containing perhaps ten or fifteen acres of cleared land and the rang of the woods where I discribed my sap works.  The woods probibley contained twenty acres.  Then an other pasture which contained a cearis of lots opening into each other and a woods called the lower woods.  The place where the cattle were turned in was called the upper New bars and the lower New bars, why they wer New bars I never could tell for they wer old when I was a baby but had probibley been new some time in the course of generations.

        I generaly went after the cows when the sun was an houer high, and most generaly found them by the bars wating to be let out. There was an old crumpeled horned Black cow that always took the lead and stood next the bars and the others were ranged after her.  Somtimes they were not there then I was obliged to go through the woods and look them up:  I thought this dredfull.  When they were in the lower lotts I sometimes found them below the woods, this I thought a terable distance.  (It could not have been over a half mild).  I have been back to the old place once since I was a man and the distances have diminished very much since I was a child.  The cows were brought in the road in front of the house and Father mother and generaly several of the girls came out to milk.  In the mean time I would amust myself tameing the young steers and heffers.  This I could always acomplish even with the most wild, and refractory.  I would commence and follow one of them until it worried out and make up its mind it was no use, I would never stop, so make a virtue of necesaty and stop themselves.  After milking the cows were driven again to pasture.

        I will say but little of butter and cheese makeing.  The cheese making I rather liked the screwing up the press or puting on waits was an easy job.  Then the eating of the new cheese that was trimed off that pressed between the hoop and loop bead was accidedly pleasant.  The butter making I did not like we had a stone churn and I can recolect the same old churn from infancey.  It ofton fell to my lot to churn and it was a long tedious job.  I was a notorious butter eater and in order to stint me in the article mother would make me and ofton all the other children a little role of butter and put it on a little plate for each one:  which was to last a weeks of course there was a rivelary among us to see whos should last the longest.  In this way she would make butter to buye somthing that she wanted.  The amount of money spent at the stores during the year was very small if the store bill for a year amounted to fifty dollars it was thought innormus.  This including groceries and drygoods.

Potatos

        About the first of June we planted our potatos generaly in sod ground, turned over the fall before for that purpos.  The amount of ground planted was from a half acre to an acre, the potatos covered with sod.  They were howed once then well hilled up.  This was don immediately after laying the corne by

The Garden

        We had a garden, a small patch in the corner of the meddow across the road from the house  It was surrounded by a rale fence.  along the fence next the road grew harty chokes seeding themselves and had been there from all time.  There was also a Hop vine and a long pole for it to run up.  Below the garden in the corner of the fence was an other fine Hop vine and just west of it a fine bunch of Peonas.  I used to think them most beautiful flower in the world:  In this garden we planted beens potatos etc. generaly went to the feeld for green corne peas etc.

        Then in my recolection (altho I must have been very small) Father surrounded an old colpet bed below the lower woods with a logg fence and made a garden there I think it must have been falieer for it was soon abandened and the fence moved.  Sage bushes was growing there maney years after its abandonment.

        Also an other garden was made below the barn a half acre ground was fenced off of a paster lot a fine wall made round it.  This was in the field next below the barn  We had in this several years a very fine garden.  The first year had quite a lot of watermellons.  This was the only patch I ever know of being grown upon the hill.  The seasons were too short and cold. We raised corn beens potatos squashes cucumbers etc. etc. string beens was a staple article in these days.

Jan 9th 1872  It will be seen from this date that this Book has been neglected for years and maney events have transpired since I pend the first of it  changes have come over me  my head is silvered with gray locks  my family has increased around me and cares hav multyplyed to such an extent that it is difficult apply myself to the past.  The present is so iminent so potant an other difficulty is to know where to begin.  I see by refuring back that I was last giving the avents of a year that I have passed through corne howing etc. potato planting the next thing in order is

Haying

        This generaly commensed about the first of July.  By this time the most heated season was upon us still the mornings were delightfully cool.  The grass covered with dew so heavy it did not dry of before nine o clock.  We will commence our haying on one of these bright dewey mornings.  The syths have been ground the night befor and now with the rifel (a whetstone) the edge is set and Paul and Father fall in the grass is heavy a swale watered by the Spring runs through the meddow.  The swarths are pilled neer two feete high half covering the ground  I stand leening upon my fork waiting for the mowers to get a little ahead, a cool breeze sweeps up the valley faning my glowing cheeks and away flys an half dozen bobalinks afrightened from ther nest by the syths.  The modest brown female churping from a fence rale while the male in his gaudy dress purches himself upon the highest stake and most vocifferously fills the air with his piculiar note of bobaline-bobaline.  I turn my eye southward and amid the green fealds in the Pamorama before me see hear and there the mowers at there work.  What can be more plesant than to live in a picture and be a moving figure in this lovly of lovly landscapes.

        I am aroused from my half dreamey reveree by fathers voice.  come Crate spred the hay.  The grass is sweet and fragrant but still the work is hard and notwithstanding the delightfull coolness of the morning the exhertion soon covers my brow with perspiration.  By ten O cl it is very warm in the sun and when we stop we fane seek the frendly shade of a tree.  I have been sent to the house a number of times for water mixed with boilid cider just to make it a littl accid.  Father and Paul hav mown as much as they think we can get up in the afternoon and they help me in spreding.  This don it is noon and tired warm and covered with persperation we go home wash and await dinner with good appatites.  The dinner coms it is composed of Potatos string beens boiled with a piece of pork.  These beens are delissious the meate sweete and filling in well with good fresh rye bread and butter our appatites are soon aswaiged.  Now we ly down in the shade of a tree or on the floor white as snow and perhaps sanded with see sand.

        About 3 PM we go out and turn our hay then about 4 we commence rakeing  Father and Paul rap.  I pitch in  The winrows are heavy the work is hard and I begin for one to look anxiously, for the completion of the job.  The winrows complete father roles them up into larg cocks  Paul rakes after the row.  Thus left at leasure I most suddenly get over being tired and begin an attack upon sundry bee nests mown over in the morning.  With a long fork I suddingly seise the nest on the ends of its tines and away I go over the meddow and away coms the bees.  I am forced to drop the fork and egnominiously flee my hands and hat flying about my head faster than my feete over the meddow.  At last I am left alone  the bees have returned to the nest.  and I go back to again seeze the fork and perhaps this time elude the pursuite and win a fine dip of hunney.  These little episodes served to relieve the wearysomness of the work.  While this has been going on unperseived by me the white thunder caps that had for several houers been pileing up in the west looking like immense mountains of fleesey snow, had assumed a dark blew appearance and now and then coms a sharp bright streek across it and a low muffeled distant rore.  Fathers attention is attracted to it he sends me to the house for mother and all the girls to help get the Hay up before the gust.  The sun is now obscured and work is fun  oh how we fly around pitch and rake the cloud in meantime fast approaching  the thunder is growing louder  a few stray drops commence to fall.  The last cock is nearly finished and with a whoop all broke for the house, it is fortunately neer by  none to neer we no more than get in than the storm is upon us with all its force.  How comfortable we feele  the cool arr after the hot day  Now we sit and watch it as the rain whirls and pitches along up the mountain side.  We had an open wood shed on the east of the house open towards the south  it was my habbit to sit and watch the storm from this shed.  The rain cleers up a little before sun down or at least parcialy so  the sun shines out for a few moments throwing a beautiful arch across the valley  the two ends resting upon the oposet mountains.  I have made an attempt to reach its end to find the mythacle pot of silver.  I followed neerly to the woods above the house only to see it receed farther and farther as I advanced  what child has not made this attempt.

        Father has brought the cows by this time and he mother & several of the Girls go to help milk.  It must be don in a hurrey for the sun is already obscured by an other riseing cloud.  The cows milked they are hurriedly driven to the pasture for in a few minutes an other storme is upon us.

        Our evening meal is a simple one bread and milk and indian puding and milk  I was never partial to this diate  the milk gave me collic and how well do I remember the doses of turpentine water and sugar mother used to giv me when I was so cramped that it seamed as tho I would dye.  It always gave releefe  We always retired early in summer just at dark  Paul and I slept up stars  the upper part of the house was not finished and our bed was placed rite under the roof.  The rain was falling gentely the heavy thunder had pretty much seased its distant roar was rather a lulaby than otherwise:  and for the rain who has not lane as I did then beneath a roofe.  The sence of comfort of security thankfullness, drowsyness, in fact all pleasing sensations combined fan you to sleepe.

        When I awaik in the morning the sun is already risen  Father has milked and as I look out of the east window I see him driving the cows down the road towards the pasture.  He has evidantly been salting them for several are still persistantly licking away at two or three of the doz or two larg flatt stones placed along the road side for salting purposis.

        I said the morning was clear so it was:  not a cloud to be seen in the heavens:  but in the valley extending half way up our farm was resting a whiteish looking cloud still and motionless as a painted see.  But while I am still looking a sudden motion is commensed by a gentle breze and the mass of cloud heaves and roles like the waves of an angry ocian.  This was no unusual seen especialy in the spring when the cloud would generaly strech fare away eastward filling all the valleys to the Hudson  I have gon down into this cloud into the hollow and on to the lower part of the farm when I could see but a few rods in any direction.  These foggey mornings were the mornings the crows worked most in the corn and maney a time have I lugged an old musket twice my one length (or nearly so) down to the corne field:  but some how mr crow was to smart for me.  I would hear his haw, haw, haw, but while I would be pearing through the thick fogg all at once he would espye me and then came the alarme a quick cry several times in succession.  and away gos a crow from a tall maple neer by and half dozen more from the corne hills they were distroying.  Somtimes this cloud enveloped our house, this and the oposing mountain.  So I presume it had been at sunrise on the norning I am discribing.  The bright rays of the sun soon disperce the mist for as I stand gaseing at it, it commenses to receed.  So by the time we are through breakfast our sea has vanished like a ghost of the night and our little world lyes spred out before us in all its beauty again.

        The hay we so hastaly cocked up last night must be respread to dry out the rain but not until the ground has dryed from the effects of the recent rain.  So while waiting for this more grass must be cut.  The syths are to be ground the edges have felt the sharp point of several projecting stone during the morning preavious.  The grinding of the syths was a wearisom task and it generaly fell to my lot to turn the grind stone.  Our stone was a small one standing generaly under a large sweet apple tree west of the house.  I can see myself now wearrealy a turning turning away at that wheele.  Sometimes when the blade was too bad we went to a neighbors some half mild away.  They had a large stone.

        About lO am the ground was dry then the cocks of the previous day was opened and the swarths of the new mone hay spred.  In the afternoon the hay is all haIled in that was mone on the second day from the winrow.  This haIling of hay was don on a stay with rack  Father pitched it on and in the place it was to ly and one of the children stamped it down.  I stood before the oxen  the first lie I ever remember telling was told while engaged in this ocupation.  I was standing before the oxen to keepe them from going ahead playing with the whip, and somehow in strikeing after butterflys and grass hoppers, I broke the last of the handle  I was frightened I am sure I do not know why for Father was always kind seldom scholding, but so it was.  when he asked me if I broke the whip I denyed it, he struck me two or three times smartly with the lash.  I felt terabley meene over it.

        The barn was neer by  the sleigh was drawn in on the barn flore father pitched it off and Paul and I moved it away, (this was hot work.) and thus some two or three weeks wore slowley away haying was a long job, and when it was don we were all worne out.

        A few days now of leasure and we are rested to commence on an other job.

Harvisting

        Wheete harvist came first some five or six achors.  It was invariabley cut with a sickel  I learned very early to reap and when ten years old could almost do a mans work.  We commenced in the ripiest places reeped towards the riseing ground and bound the sheives as we went back.  This was a slow business and took neer a weeke.  At the close of each day it was carried into shocks and left a few days to dry out then hawled to the barn and moved on top of the hay on one side of the barn.  This had by this time got very high above the floor making it necessary to pitch from a platform to the mow  I generaly helped mow away  hear I came neer meeting with a fatle accidant.  The mow was full almost to the peak of the roof.  The pitch holes coming upon either side of the Barn flore like chimneys at least thirty feete from the floore.  In running the mow I ran into one of these.  I saw it when it was to late distruction was before and no possible retreet.  Providance put forth a hand and saved me.  Quick as thought the idea struck me to jump across and catch to a purline beem  I did so, my hands coming down upon the hard wood with a terrable slap.  I did not mind the hurt and hung on until drawn up by some one from above, I have had maney narrow escapes in my life and the hand of God is visable in them all.

        Rye and oat harvist was over in a week or two more.  Then came a leisure of a few weeks.  During this time Rock was haIled and walls made and other od jobs.  I did not particularly dislike the haIling of stone as it was called.  The land was pretty thickly strewed with stone and every fresh plowing seamed to bring up a fresh crop.  Then there was spots on nearly evry field so entirly covered with rock that no attempt was ever made to cleere them away.  Brother Paul used to account for these spots to me, after this wise.  The Devel scattered the stone and as he passed along sowing them brawd cast from his apron which was full.  At these spotts his apron string broke stilling [spilling] out these masses sometimes covering an half achor  he never stoped together them up but gethering up the broken string on he goes again every now and then meeting with the same accident.

        One day in turning over a large stone a garter snake was found with an half dozen joung snakes some six inches long, as soon as disturbed the young snakes ran down the mothers throat.  this was a lesson in natural history.  Then spiders wer found covered with young.  Every bug and worme had to go through a thorough exhamonation probibly not in the most sciantific manner and thus the days wore on.  The work was realy hard for maney of the rock were large and had to by pryed out of the ground with a Ieaver and roled on to the stone Boat in the same way  ofton one stone was all the oxen could hall.  Father usually layed the wall.

Corn cuting

        In October as soon as the corne was ripe it was cut and put into stoots  this was a job I rather liked, and then soon after the first of November it was drawn to the barn and set up on the Barn floore put into the stables etc.  Then came the fun of husking.  By this time the weather began to get cold so that in the morning especialy we were glad to sit in sun  the large east doors of the barn were opened and rite in front of them we began our work throwing the golden ears into a basket until full then empty into the wagon.  I generaly colected quite a veriaty of spoted red black, blew & diffirant collared corn ears.

        Flax was an other article we generaly raised.  an half achor was about the extent.  This however took a good deel of labor.  Flax has to be pulled  this is don by swinging the left hand around the flax as much of it as can be easily pulled at once the rich [right] is then used taking hold below the left.  The handfull is spred on the ground and so in the seeds always the same way.  It is shortly gethered up into bundels and set five or six in a place until the seed will thrash easily.  The thrashing is don on the barn floor with frales.  This thrashing was generaly don some rany day when we could not work out.  I can now see the cold damp day Father Paul and myself working with the flax  my part of the work was playing with the beautifull seed as it sliped from the faning mill.

        The stems or stalks were taken to the meddow and spred in rows left for a month or more to rot, then bound into larg bundels and placed in the barn for winter treatment.

Potatos

        I never liked to dig potatos to tutch them sends a shudder through me and a particular smell of the vines was very disagreeable to me.  my business was picking up.  The Potatos were put into a large bin in an outdoor seller  nearly all the farmers had such sellers on account of the extreeme difficulty of preventing the cellirs under the house from freezing.  This sellar was dug into the side of a bank neer the house, was probibley ten by fourteen walls on the sides and timber overhead.  An outer and iner door and ry straw in large bundles put betwen.  Of cours the sellar was perfacly dark.

Gethering Apples

        Was a holliday.  The orcherd was a large one  everybody had Apples so we never sold an apple.  What was not put into the seller and mad into cider went to the hogs and cows.  Hundreds of bushels were fed in this way.  Those designed for winter use were carfully picked and carried basket after basket to the bin.  More than a hundred bushells were thus stowed away.  Those intended for cider were haIled generaly two milds to Chancy Hulberts who had a cider mill.  The mill was a primative afare circular trough two feete wide and thirty perhaps forty feete in circumferons.  The apples wer scattered over the bottom of the trough, then a ponderous wheele six feed [feet] in diameter was rold over them by a horse hitched to a windless.  This arangment crushed the apples very finely.

        The press was two immence wood screws, we generaly made five or six barrels of cider.  Three barrels was boild into one for apple sauce.  The rest put into the sellar from which we drank occasionaly during the winter and when to sower for that put into vinigar.

        November

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Quincy Aug 20th 1866

        About the first of May 1862 I had sold of all my efficts gathered in what money I had standing out and was ready for a start for Calaforina with my family which then consisted of my wife, 3 boys and a girl, the youngest a boy about foure months old. Mr. Pettengile a friend who was going to accompany me I had made my agent to purchis six yoak of oxen and two wagons for the planes these were purchised wagons were ready when news from the planes came that the Indians had commensed there depradations and a party of thirty emigrants had been massacreed.  What should we do.  We were in trouble: after some delay we came to the conclusion to dispose of our cattle and Wagons and go by water. This change of program was attended with quite a pecuniary loss.  I took my family and went on to Philadelphia to wait until he (P) came on.  I expected to sell a piece of land in Jersey to supply myself in means, but was unable to do so notwithstanding I offered it for one thousand dollars.  I have sold the same since my return for two thousand.  Not being able to sell my land I was foursed to leive my family.  After a visit that was anything but plesant of some foure weeks I took my family to Jersey a place called Spring Gardon I here made arrangements for board at Mrs Albertsons for the some of twelve dollars a weeke.

        I shall never forget the 12 day of June 1862 the day I left my family in Jersey and commensed my jurney for Cal.  The cars for long branch arrived at Spring Garden about eight in the morning.  The whistel was hird at Waterford two milds above.  my trunk was already on the platform by the Rail Road.  Snowden was still in bed and could not yet come out and see me of.  He cryed most bitterly I could hear him as I got on to the cars.  Mary poor thing thoght she was going with me and when I kissed her and gave her to her Mother She was terabley disappointed.  I can see Walter standing by his mother his big eyes filled with tears and Poor Paule was to young to feel the parting.  I can see the sad groop now as they stood looking after the cars as they roled away.  The parting was a sad one for the time of our seperation was indeffinate and then this time how many changes might take place.  My reflections was aneything but agreeable as I rode away.  I almost repented my folley in undertaking such a move but the dye was cast and I must move on.  Five milds above Spring Gardon is the Junction of the long Branch R.R. a fiwe minutes brought me there and there at a ruff little station house I had to wait for four or five houres for the down train.  They were hours of impationce intense impatience  Thoughts of the loved ones I had left  gloomey forboadings of the long voige before me every thing looked unsertain.  How was I going to get into business after I got to Cal  regrets agane came up that I had left a good business to launce out upon an ocian of uncertainty.  The sun shone brightly and the day was very hot.

        About twelve oclock the cars came and I got aborde I felt better satisfied when in motion  my impatience could not brook delay, and the rappid motion of the cars in come degree raised my Spirits.  It soon began to rain and rain it did we could hardly see the trees by the road side and the engeneere could not see but a few car lengths ahead.  We were behind time and was runing at a feerefull spead when all at once like a clap of thunder came a terable crash we had colided with two freight cars standing on the track and smashed our Locomotive.  here was delay agane.  A man was started back six or eight milds on foot to the nearest station where a Locomotive could be procured, and as the front wheals of oures was demolished the Locomotive had to be raised and the wheeles of a box car put under.  This took from about two oclock until nearly dark.  Meantime the rain fell in torrence.  I had had no dinner and did not eat much breakfast and was very hungery.  As the rane seased for a little towards night I wandered out upon a road in serch of a house.  by inquire I lerned that there was one some mild and a half off through the woods.  The road was flooded and almost impassable.

        After going until I became almost discouraged I came in sight of a poor Speciman of a Jersey house and went to it found a woman there.  She had just baked some nice light Bread which she gave me with milk she had no butter.  I ate hurredly for fear the train might leave me then payed the woman took a crust in my hand and waving it as I hurried back to the RR.  I will allways recolect that woman with gratitude.  I arived at the cars to find they were hours of geting off yet.

        Finely just before darke a Locomotive came down from above and hitched on to the train and haIled us back four or five milds, where the broken Locomotive was switched off and after maney delays we got under way.  It was midnight before we got to long Branch  we went at once a board of the boat but not to start but to find that the fog was so dense that it was impossible to find the way and here we must ly until morning without supper without beds.  I found a bench with cushin and lay down wraped my overcoat around me and tryed to sleepe but thoughts of my family and of the days misshaps drove sleepe from my eyelids.  I now began to fear that I would be to late for the Cal steamer that sailed at twelve oclock.

        Just before day the old engine began to whease and snore.  I got up and looked out the fogg was still dense so we could see very little before us and was obliged to stop very frequently  I became very nervos.  At about ten we arived in New York.  I hurried up to the Lovejoy House and got a cup of tea and som bred and butter then went to the siting room to look for Pettinggale  I found him there writing me a letter in a greate flurrey he was going to start without me.  Then we had to secure our tickets attend to our bagage and get down to the boat.  My bagage had been left at the express and did not arive  I was in a terible state of mind  it cannot be described I almost wished I had not started in fact came neere starting back to Quincy and would have don so had it not been for being laughed at.  Half past eleven and no bagage yet  I went down to the warf and left word with the Porter at the Hotell to bring it.  I stood at the enterance of the big gate in thedense crowed who were hurreying in and out of the yard where the the America lay.  I was watching for my trunk directly just before twelve I got the glimps of a man with a big trunk on his back coming on a full jump.  It was my porter of the Lovejoy house and things seamed to cleere up a little.  I had my trunk sat downneer one of the gang planks and watched the crowd passing on waiting Pittengill.

        The scene here was of the wildest confusion  Hurreying on and hurreying off carreying all manner of bagage every bodytalking at once and nobody hearing what anyboddy says.  I was glad when my friend came  We went on board at once disposed of our trunks by having them sent into the hole and took our stand on the upper deck to watch the embarcation.  We for sake of econama had procured stearage tickets and of consiquence were shut off on the front of the Boat with as fiw acommodations and as many anoinaces as could be well conseived of.  an accoount of which I will give as I proscede

        The Stearage passongers were mostly the lower classes  the emerald Islenders being predominance.  But here and there I saw a genteal looking man and made up my mind to forme there acquaintance after geting out.  But still they pore in  men wimen children a motly crew with whom I am already disgusted before we have beentogether five minutes   How will it be when pend up with this herd for weaks.  My hearte almost failed and were it not for thepreasant and antisipated novelty, the prospect would have been doleful enough.  (Writen June 1867)  It was nearly l Pm before the command came to hall in the stage planks, and the big wheals began to move that was to bare us from native land.  The hurried goodby was given.  Friend parting with friend parrence with children husbands with wives.  And tears flowed freely.  I stood upon that deck alone  strangers all around  no one to say good by:  and still I cannot say that I was unmoved by all this, no a tear stole unbiden into my eyes.  And as my vision rested upon the confusion around me in mind I was fare away and the parting seans of the previous day came afresh before me.  I was once more biding farwell to my own tearful little groop.

        In a few minutes we were swinging out from the dock and gliding slowly among the shiping out into the river.  The next two or three hours we are gliding down the harber along Government and Statten Icelands past ford Jacks [Fort Jackson] and fort Simon.  The fog is still hanging along the shore and over the Iclands.  Before 3 pm the outline of old Ocian was distinctly sean marked by a line of foaming brakers along level beach.  I had been spending my time on deck watching passing sales and studdeying the caracture of fellow passengers.  I had by this formed the acquaintance of a Gentelman from Newark N.J.  a Mr Griffeth  he was a widower with one boy that he had left at home with his mother and sisters  we took to each other at once and maney pleasant houres of communings of friends and home did we have during our trip to Graytown that being the end of his journey.

        I had also noted two other gents whos acquaintance I made in a day or two.  I had been much amused by a young John Bull dressed in cordroy from head to foot who seamed deturmined to keepe of the terrible sea sickness by constant motion.  So hear he went walking up and down the deck and as we approached the open sea he and the watter began to grow more ruff.  he increased his motion.  For a few days previous the wind had been heavy from the east and now that it had luled the brakers piled in upon the shore in a most fearfull manner.  Until we came into the open water the passengers had all remained on deck but as this point was gained they began to drop off.  one by one.  The wind freshened from the south east and it driseled at times.  I took my stand as neere the center of motion as possible and watched the diminishing crowd and the rageing and lashing of the waves.  I love to stand or sit thus and watch the Ocian for houres together and through its infinity of waters commune with the Infinate.  And thus houre after houre passed until I was left almost alone  my friend P had long since sickened and gon below.  My frantic Englander was still paseing the deck with faltering steps pale as a gost, and earlong he had surcumed in spite of his efforts and I was left alone beside the smoke stack which I had sought for warth.  Standing with drenched overcoat and hat brim turned down a perfic picture of dispare.  What what should I do.  I was coald wet weak from having ate scarcely anything for two days.  It had become evidant that I could not remain where I was much longer  night was come  I was becoming more exhausted every moment and worse than all I know that the moment I moved a terabel crises would be precipetated one that it was very natueral to put off as long as possible.

        Just before dark I yealded to fatigue and started for the stearage  I was now be it remembered on the hurreycan deck.  I past along this deck and down a perpedicular stares at the bulkhead of the cabin to the bow deck.  Here the awful crises overtook me.  I had observed during the pasage down the harber a very free use of Oranges among the pasangers, and from some strange circumstance the bow deck was entirely deserted and thers oranges in a most discusting state of mashafacation and scateration was strewed all over the deck.  The sight was two much for my weak stomach and I sat down upon a snubing block and made sundrey desperate but ineffectual efforts to throw up my boots.  I was stoped several times in this way on my pasage to the stearage.  And when I got there no pen can describe the sean.  Hogarth himself could no more than depict the seene.  Tubs wer plased at conveniant distances about the place and six hundred of these filthey creatures were constantly some of them disgorging into them and over the floore.  I was to sick to look for P and my birth.  so I sank down upon the first clean and unocupied spot I found which hapened to be upon one of the hatches.  Here I lay for several houres.  Now and then straining myself allmost to death to throw up a little disgusting yellow water.  P. came at last to look for me  he had been and was still very sivk.  He took me to my bearth which was on the middle tear and bottum birth  I lay on the out side and as the night was cold the air was not as offincive as might have been supposed.  My sickness continued until about midnight.  I then rose went to the steward and got a Sea Bisquit ate it and felt prety comfortable.  I rose early next morning and went on deck.  took a wash in cold sea water and felt very much refreshed but still weak.  I took my station on the Hurrican deck again the sun was not yet up.  The deck was wet seats and all the hands were at there daly ablution of the vessel.  Playing upon the decks with Hoes the water being fourced through them by the engen.  This washing of decks is a greate nucence to the early risers but is the only way to keepe the ship clean and healthey.  The sun rose bright and clear like a ball of fire out of the deepe blue Sea.  And thus began my secon day on board the Steam Ship America and hear it may not be amis to paus and give a short description of this crasey old craft owned by Roberts & Taylor of New York.

The America

        This steamer was an old Lake Steamer with gards, and of say some two thousand tun burden.  She was aney thing but sea worthey.  On the previous trip up from Graytown She had expearance a severe gale and was perfecly unmanageable.  Laying for houers in the troth of the waves roaling like a logg  The cabin nearly filled with water the furniture floating about the place.  She was given up as lost but did by a good providance at last arive in New York in a sad condition  She had been refited and put to sea under Captin Mora brother of Leutenant Mora of fisical Georrathy [Geography] fame and rebel noteriaty our Captin was a noted rebel and had been employed by Roberts and Taylor  I have no doubt to loos her on this trip I am satisfied that every effort was made to accomplish this object but the First mate Mr. Clark was not in the secret and frustrated there plans, as also did one of the enjeneers prevent the loss of the vessell at one time by acting without command from the Captin.  But I will have occasion to speak of this as I proceede.

Second Day

        The end of the last chapter found me on the heracan deck and the sun was just rising.  The night previous I did not get up to supper for obvious reasons.  P now makes his apearance and we await breakfast.  The meals were given on long planks hanging from the wood work above in the Stearage between the long rows of bearths.  The table furnature consisted of. tin plates teaspoons and tin cups for coffee or for soop when it was soop day.  For breakfast we had tea or vilinos compounds for coffee sweetened with molases.  Sea biscuits a few slices of fat porke sometimes rice and molases.  For dinner one day they gave us Been porrage plenty of porrage but the beans were scarce.  The next perhaps mush and molases.  The next some kind of soop made from ods and ends of meat  I suppose from the cabin  We never had butter and alltogether our fair was made just as vile as they could make it and in fact the stearage is made as uncomfortable as possoble.  These meals were delt out by the negrows as a lot of Hog tenders would feede there swine.  And they were obliged to number them into no one two three etc. to prevent them returning to every table and thus gormodiseing upon the filthy fair.  I went to the table but two or three times during the passage to Graytown.  I could not enter the general scrambel for unless I was as hogesh as the other hogs I could get nothing.

        I think is was sometime during the second day.  Mr. Avard Whealer Petengale and myself made an arangment with the waiters to serve us our meals after the regular dinner with food from the first cabin table.  This of course had to be don clandestanley and eaten behind the births to avoid discovery by the officers of the boat.  Our fair was from this out pretty good Chicken Pyes, Fresh fish warm roles good butter Potatos, Good Coffee and tea, Rost beaf in fact everything that was going.

        The amount we payed the waiters for this I believe was about eight dollars for the trip.  My friend Griffeth had brought with him a bottle of fine Brandy to keepe off disease and every day he invited me to pertake of a spoonfull.  One day as usuel he asked me down to the birth deck for he kept the bottle under his pillow  he went ahead to get his bottle and shortly afterwards appeared pale and almost speachless.  I asked what on earth had happened had our ship sprung a leak, no he gasped but my bottle it has all been stolen by sombody.  He would not have lost it for a thousand dollars in fact for nothing  what was he to do.  What if he should be taken with cholora.  He farly trembeled.  I soothed him the best I could but poor G looked upon that avent as the greate mishap of the voyage.

Griffeth

        This gentelman belonged to Newark New Jersey.  Was a cabinate maker by traid  had been to Calafornia and central America and had now for several months past been studdey gold aloys.  Had got a few dies of coin cut purporting to be the coin of the Repub. of Nicarauga and expected to establish a mint under the auspices of the government.  I left him at Grayton working in the ship companeys shops to make money to transport him to Granada.

Polatics

        There was aboard a big Irishman who had been under the rebel Zolacoff and was a staunch rebel as was two thirds of the passengers.  The captin was a brother as I have before said of Lutenant Mora and of course a rebel.  This tall Paddey and I got into a debate on the second day  both got mad and high words passed.  A crowd of Rebs gethered round and we came neere having a row.  But my Irishman soon cooled down and sayed we were fellow pasengers and must be friends.  We did not talk on Polatics after this but he was eturnaly talking with some one  My friend Pettengil and he had it for days.  One night P was talking with some one I do not now know who but the big Paddey kept interupting him  I stood by and witnessed it for some time finely I steped up and took hold of the gentelman and asked him what he ment by that he hesatated and stammered out nothing no harme.  I told him to interupt him again if he dar.  He was big enough to have eaten me up but bluff won he subsided.

        Angery disputations were the order of the day and were kept up during the whole passage.  I soon formed acquaintances in the cabbin and after going on board on the Paciffic side I spent the most of the time in there company, and there the climent was differant::  Almost unanimosly union.

Car ib ion

        About the sixt day we entered the Caribion Sea passing along the north bank of the Icland of Jamaca  The Icland from the sea looks like a wilderness.  The heavyly wooded land slopeing back from the coast into lofty mountain peaks in the interior  We coasted along it for near a day and I saw no signs of life or cultivation.  These were in the valeys principaly.  I will never forget the first view I got of Jamaka  I had risen as usual very early and as the gray dawn broak into day a bank of blew apparrently of cloud seamed to hang low along the south  I noticed this a long time before I hird it sayed from one and an other it is land.  As the sun rose clear and bright over the sea the line seamed more distinct and now with eager eyes we watched houre after houre the cost line of the Icland as it were rising out of the ocian.  About  ten o clock we were abrest it and inhaled the fragrent breases that sweped over the land baring on its wings the perfume of a thousand flowers and spices.

        By the time we came along side the Icland [Island] we ware farly in the Carribion sea which is carictorised by the ruffness of its waters.  The wind from the south the Trade, was very high.  The steamer wallowed and labored heavily and nearly everyone got sea sick again.  I was quamish for several days but did not vomit.

[Here the journal ends.  According to family legend, the steamer developed problems and returned to port.  Socrates Hubbard returned to his family and in 1877, they removed to Texas.  Following are vital record notations written in a different hand than the journal.]

Date of Births Mariages and Death of Children of Socrates and Sophia R. Snowden Hubbard

        Snowden Hubbard

                Was born Oct. 21st 1852 at Philadelphia Pa

                Married to Laura A. Barnes at Sherman Tex. July 4th 1877.

                By the Rev J.C. Carpenter

                Died 1940

        Walter Hubbard

                Was born at Quincy Ill Sep 29th 1857

                Married at Henrietta Tex Nov 25th 1885 to Jessie Lee Douglass

                By the Rev.Geo Pearson

                Died 1927

        Mary Lucia Hubbard

                Was born at Quincy Ill. March 4th 1860

                Married at Bowie Tex. to John Hill Matthews May 7th 1883.

                By the Rev L.P. Smith

                Died at Bowie Tex Sep 26th 1904

        A babe was born the 10th of Feb 1861 & died same day.

        Paul Hubbard

                Was born Jan 9th 1862

                Died May 18th 1864

        William Hubbard

                Was born April 5th 1865 at Quincy Ill

                Married at Pasadena, Cal Dec 9th 1895 to Mrs Ettie Matthews

                by the Rev.Clark Crawford

                Died 1927

        Arthur Socrates Hubbard

                Was born at Quincy Ill Nov 30th 1867

                Married at Acton Cal May 3d 1899 to Mattie Robbins

                By the Rev. Silas Pruden

                Died 1932

        Frank Norwood Hubbard

                Was born at Quincy Ill Aug 16th 1870

                Married at Pasadena Cal June 2d 1898 to Marie Smith

                By the Rev. Chas E. Tibbetts

                Died Feb. 13th 1941

[Note:  The above death dates, with the exception of the death dates for the "babe" and Paul Hubbard, appear to be written in a different hand and some marked over with different dates]

Dates of Birth Mariages and Death of Children of Snowden and Laura A. Barnes Hubbard

        Lucia Aurelia Hubbard

                Was born at Lone Star School Dist Montague Co Texas

                Married at Sterling Okla to Joseph H Stephens

                [Editor:  She was born Aug 1879, died 26 Jan 1947 near Sunnyvale, Santa Clara Co, CA, when a train struck the auto in which she was riding.  Her sister Myrtle and nephew Walter, son of Walter Nelson Hubbard, also died in the accident.  The car was a new station wagon driven by her brother Paul Hubbard who lost a leg as a result of this accident.  No known children by either marriage.  She married secondly John L. Ricardson and they had no children.]

        Ben Alva Snowden Hubbard

                Was born at Belknap Green Montague Co Texas

                Married at San Francisco Cal to

        [Editor:  He is said to have married a woman named Felicia from Panama.  He reportedly went to Panama and the family lost touch with him.  After many years of searching the only records found of this man are this journal, he is listed with his father’s family in the 1900 census for Bowie, Montague Co, Texas, and his military record of service in the Philippine Insurrection.]

        Myrtle Retta Hubbard

                Was born at Queens Peak Montague Co Texas

                Married at Lauton Okla to John H. Baird

        [Editor:  She was born 24 Jan 1883 and died 26 Jan 1947 in the aforementioned auto/train accident.  Her first marriage was in Lawton, Comanche Co, OK.  She married secondly Arthur Lee Edmans.  No known children by either marriage.]

        Walter Nelson Hubbard

                Was born at Bowie Montague Co. Texas

        [Editor:  He was born 8 Dec 1884 and died 24 Dec 1937, Santa Clara Co, CA.  A house painter, Walter married Mary Fumagalli, born circa 1901 in California and is buried in Hollister, CA]

        Norma Eugenia Hubbard

                Was born at Bowie Montague Co Texas

                Married to Edmond Ronayne Steele at San Francisco Cal

        [Editor:  She was born 18 Apr 1886, died 20 Mar 1945, Maywood, Los Angeles Co, CA, struck by a car while crossing the street to post a letter.  She married first 9 Jan 1906, Charley, Comanche Co, OK, to Luther Osborne, she married second, 7 Mar 1910, in San Francisco, CA, to Edmund Ronayne Steele, the uncle of Ruth Steele who married Clyde H. Hubbard below.  Edmund R. Steele was born 20 Aug 1875, Nevada, Story Co, IA, died 23 Dec 1947, San Francisco, CA.  Norma married third, Guy L. Ladeaux.  She operated a shooting gallery on the Santa Cruz, CA boardwalk and also resided in Deming, NM.]

        Clyde Huntoon Hubbard

                Was born at Bowie Montague Co Texas

        [Editor:  Born 5 Feb 1890, died 15 Jul 1940, Santa Cruz, CA.  Clyde may have homesteaded in OK.  He married 1st, 25 Jul 1913, Santa Rosa, CA, to Ruth Ilene Steele, born 16 Jan 1898, Daviess Co, MO, died 1 Sep 1964, Ingle wood, Los Angeles Co, CA.  Clyde married 2nd, 9 Dec 1927, San Jose, CA, to Iwa Delle Tomkins, born 3 May 1898, Tulare, Tulare Co, CA, died 14 Feb 1973, Burlingame, San Mateo Co, CA.]

        Paul Roland Hubbard

                Was born at Bowie Montague Co Texas

        [Editor:  Born 13 Feb 1892, died 10 Jan 1963, Little Rock, Pulaski Co, AR, buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA.  An artist, he never married and roamed the US often driving and exhibiting antique autos.  He promoted Victory bonds during WWII with one of his antique cars.  He called himself the "hobo artist" or the "fastest artist" and sometimes camped in national parks and forests and painted pictures of pets for the owners.]

        Howard Carlton Hubbard

                Was born at Bowie Montague Co. Texas

        [Editor:  Born 14 Dec 1896, died 6 Oct 1969, Santa Clara , CA.  He married Ethel Ann Tierney, born 4 Oct 1883, New Zealand, died 8 May 1961, Los Gatos, Santa Clara Co, CA.]

Date of Birth Mariages & Death [of Children] of Walter and Jessie Lee Douglass Hubbard

        Roy Hurt Hubbard

                Was born Dec. 21st 1886 at Henrietta Clay Co Texas

                Married 9/15-1915

        [Editor:  Died 29 May 1950, Kern Co, CA.  Other sources date his marriage 18 Sep 1915, to Voa Beatrice Allstaetter, who died 10 Mar 1977, Kern Co, CA

        Ocheltree Seawall Hubbard

                Was born at Pasadena Los Angeles Co Cal Dec 26th 1889

                Married April 30th

        [Editor:  Dr. O.S. Hubbard, graduated from UC Berkeley, taught in several schools in the San Joaquin Valley, and was superintendent of schools for many years in San Jose, CA.  A San Jose grammer school is named in his honor.  He married first 30 Apr 1917, San Francisco, CA, to Margaret Bradfield Hopwood, born 27 Jun 1887, Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA, died 24 Jul 1967, San Jose,  CA.  He had one son by his 1st wife, Douglass Hopwood Hubbard, born 22 May 1918, Oakland, CA.  Dr. Hubbard married 2nd, 1969, Santa Cruz, CA, to Mildred Laurine Erickson.  He died 20 Dec 1987, Portland, Multnomah Co, OR.  He is entombed in the mausoleum on the hill, Oak Hill Cemetery, San Jose.  His second wife survived him.  He also adopted a son and named him Roy Hopwood Hubbard, he was born 1 Apr 1918, Coffeyville, Montgomery Co, KS.]

        Walter Douglass Hubbard Jr

                Was born July 30th 1896 at San Bernardino San Bernardino Co Cal

                Married Nov 25 1926

        [Editor:  He died 24 Jun 1949, Siskiyou Co, CA.  He married Doris Elizabeth Winner in Santa Cruz, CA.]

        Frank William Hubbard

                Was born at San Bernardino San Bernardino Co Cal June 7th 1900.

        [Editor:  He died 7 Aug 1979, Washington, DC.  He received his doctorate in education from Columbia Univ.  He married 20 Jun 1928, to Genevieve Gregg.]

Date of Birth Marrages and Death of Children of Mary Lucia Hubbard Matthews and John Hill Matthews

        Walter Hill Matthews

                Was born at Bowie Montague Co Texas

        Leslie Matthews

                Was born at Bowie Montague Co Texas

        Erminie Matthews

                Was born at Bowie Montague Co Texas

        [Editor:  Mary Lucia Hubbard and John Hill Matthews were married , 7 May 1883, Bowie Montague Co, TX, Marriage volume C, page 41.  In the records she is called Mollie Hubbard.]

Date of Birth Marrages and Death of Children of William and Ettie Matthews Hubbard

        None

        [Editor:  Etta Matthews may have been a widow when she married William Hubbard.  She died 12 Dec 1961, Los Angeles Co, CA]

Date of Birth Mariages and Death of Children of Arthur Socrates and Mattie Robbins Hubbard

        None

        [Editor:  Arthur Socrates Hubbard died 18 Jul 1933, Acton, Los Angeles Co, CA]

Date of Birth Marriages and Death of Children of Frank Norwood and Marie Smith Hubbard

        Harold Norwood Hubbard

                Was born March 15th 1899 at Pasadena Los Angeles Co Cal

        [Editor:  He married June 2, 1928, Hollywood, Los Angeles Co, CA, to Alma Rippetto.

        Russell Fordyce Hubbard

                Was born March 11th 1903 at Long Beach Los Angeles Co Cal

        [Editor:  He died 10 Jan 1952, Los Angeles Co, CA.  Russell married 24 Jun 1928, Glendale, Los Angeles Co, CA, to Mary Lucille Gerard.]

        Mildred Irene Hubbard

                Was born October 11th 1905 at Long Beach Los Angeles Co Cal.

        [Editor:  She married William Earl Millstein August 10, 1933 at Reno, Nevada.]

In Pasadena, Cal. on the 11th of June 1888, Socrates Hubbard died after a short illness of one week.  Aged 63 yrs. 2 mos. 23 days 37th Psalm, 37 verse - Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that is peace.

In Bowie, Texas on the 4th of April 1890, Sophis R.S. Hubbard died after an illness of seven weeks.  Aged 60 yrs. 3 mos. 25 days

List of References

Champney, Freeman.  1968.  Art and Glory.  The Story of Elbert Hubbard.  Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio.

Day, Edward Warren.  1895.  One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, 866 to 1895.  Published by Harlan Page Hubbard, New York.  G. W. Rodgers & Co., Fine Art Printers, 409-413 Pearl Street, New York.

Spafford LL.D., Horatio Gates,  1824.  A Gazetteer of the State of New York.  Reprinted 1981, Heart of the Lakes Publishing.