Greene-Dallas-Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Grubbs, John Nabors April 18, 1843 - July 16, 1916 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William Grubbs davidgrubbs59@bresnan.net March 12, 2019, 12:59 pm Source: United Daughters of the Confederacy Nathan Bedford Forrest District Author: Grace Grubbs Howell and Stella Grubbs Parham BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN NABOR GRUBBS BY GRACE GRUBBS HOWELL (MRS. J. D.) AND STELLA GRUBBS PARHAM (MRS. J. B.) Real Daughters of the Greene County Chapter No. 1731 of the United Daughters Of the Confederacy of the Nathan Bedford Forrest District of Alabama. JOHN NABOR GRUBBS John Nabor Grubbs, a Confederate Veteran of Company B, 5th Battalion, was born April 18, 1843. He enlisted from the State of Alabama in and round Rabbitown which is now Anniston, Alabama. He enlisted under age to try to keep his older brother who was sick from having to go. But he had to go after all. Our father’s General was Robert E. Lee, his Captain was A. P. Hill. He was selected as an ambulance driver, young and fearless. We children often sat around him to tell us about how he carried soldiers bodies out of the front line to the hospitals, graveyards and often dumped a load of bodies out in some ravine to hide them from the Yankees. This was to keep the Yankees from knowing how many had been killed. On one occasion, as he told my brother about a load of cripples – some heads half shot off, arms off, legs off and some dying but he had orders to take them out of sight and leave them, my brother said he believed our father could hear some of those dying men begging, for tears would come in his eyes while telling the story. Orders were given when Capt. A. P. Hill was shot to deliver his body to his wife and no one else. Our father took the body of Capt. A. P. Hill and drove through fighting lines to his house and delivered the body to his wife. He had to hide out in daytime and travel at night for the Yankees wanted so much to find Capt. Hill’s body. He said that was an occasion he would never forget. Once our father was riding his horse and had been for a long time, he was very tired and was sitting across the saddle when he met General Lee who said “Soldier sit up straight on that horse, he is as tired as you are.” I asked him what he said and he remarked “I sat up straight from then on and said nothing. Rope bridges were used across rivers and creeks so they could be cut or burned to keep the Yankees back. Sleeping out in the open wasn’t bad in summer but rough in winter unless you could get under a bed of snow. It was very easy to find a soldier under snow by smoke puffing from his mouth and that was all you could see over the entire company. John Nabor Grubbs and Nancy Lucenda Shelton were married August 18, 1868, in Pickens County, Alabama. Our father died July 16, 1916. Our fathers mother – Mahalia Howell Our fathers father – Allen Nabor Grubbs John Nabor and Nancy Lucenda Grubbs had born into their family eleven children, four girls and seven boys, names are given in order of birth – Zuma Eric Dec. 20, 1869 Minnie Sept. 30, 1871 Alonzo Eugene Dec. 2, 1872 Leonodus Nelson Aug. 22, 1875 Allen Nabor March 13, 1878 Velma Gertrude March 3, 1880 Holley Ferguson March 6, 1882 Roy James Feb. 2, 1885 Drewey Grace Feb.14, 1887 John Virgial Oct. 11, 1889 Stella Lou August 4, 1892 Additional Comments: This biography is as written, with punctuation, grammatical and spelling errors left in tact. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/dallas/bios/grubbs1110gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb