Biography of George Stubbs - Conway Co, AR

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Submitted by: Cathy Barnes <bbarnes@cswnet.com>
        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 115

George Stubbs, a planter residing on the Petit Jean Mountain, was born
in Belmont County, Ohio, April 10, 1855; he is a son of John C. and
Mary M. (Flowers) Stubbs; father a native of Ohio, born in 1825;
mother of Maryland, born 1827. They were married in Ohio in 1843, and
are the parents of twelve children-six sons and six daughters-two of
whom are dead. George, the subject, is the second son, John W., James,
Samuel, Allen, Joseph, Caroline, Mary E., Artimissee, Ella,
Catherine (deceased) and one died unnamed. Father enlisted in the
Federal army in 1864, and served until the close of the war. Mother is
a member of the Methodist Church. They are both living and reside in
Ohio. Our subject was married in Delaware County, Ohio, on May 1,
1881, to Miss Jennie Jarvis, a daughter of William and Leah (House)
Jarvis. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs have been born three
children -Glyndon, Alta and Elby. Mr. Stubbs emigrated from Ohio to
Kansas in 1885, and from Kansas to Arkansas in 1889. He located on the
Petit Jean Mountain, and soon secured an interest in a sheep ranch
with Mr. H. T. Hannaford; he is also farming quite extensively.
Socially he is a member of Knights of Pythias fraternity, and
politically he is a Democrat. Mrs. Stubbs' parents are also natives of
Ohio, where father was born about 1822, and mother in 1823. They were
married in Ohio, and are the parents of nine children- four sons and
five daughters-four children now living: Jennie Eliza, Semanthia and
William. Parents are now living in Union County, Ohio, and are members
of the Christian Church.