Biography: Arna Alfred Tubb of Monroe County, Mississippi Source: Rowland, Dunbar. The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Centennial Edition, 1917. Madison, Wisc.: Democrat Printing Company, 1917. Pages 899-900. Submitted for inclusion in USGenweb Project Archives by Lori Thornton . ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ MONROE COUNTY. ARNA ALFRED TUBB of Amory, Miss., Representative of Monroe County, was born June 9, 1885, at Tubb's Cross-Roads, in Monroe County, Miss. He is the son of Alfred William Tubb and Nancy Evaline (Seely) Tubb of Tubbs, Miss. Alfred William Tubb was a brave soldier in the Confederate Army and served from 1862 until the close of the Civil War. He took part in the Battle of Shiloh and in the siege of Vicksburg. His father, Benjamin Tubb and mother, Sarah Colley Tubb, were residents of Smith County, Tenn. Benjamin Tubb was a native of South Carolina, Aberville [sic.] District When a small boy he removed to Tennessee with is father, Wilson Tubb, whose wife was Polley Benson, a near relative of Jefferson Davis. Arna Alfred Tubb's maternal grandfather, Spencer Wilson Seely was born in the Mississippi Territory, May 20, 1812. His father, Edward Rudolph Seely, who helped to survey the boundary line of Indiana, removed from Indiana to Mississippi with his wife, Marguerite Crosby Seely. The Tubb family has always been among the progressive families of the State and has taken part in its social, economic and political development. Representative Tubb received his first scholastic training in the public schools of Tubbs' Cross-Roads, which schools he attended until nineteen years of age. He afterwards attended Oakland College in Itawamba County, Miss., where he received the degree of A. B. in 1906. He subsequently took a course in bookkeeping at a Business College of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Tubb has devoted many years to teaching in the counties of Monroe and Yalobusha, Miss. He was assistant Post-master at Armory [sic.] for a numbber [sic.] of years. Having become identified with the various activities of his section, he was induced to become a candidate for the Legislature and was elected in 1915, for the term of 1916-1920. Representative Tubb, in connection with his public duties, is combining the study of law at Millsaps College. His ambitions have been very laudable and his many friends prophesy for him a brilliant future of much usefulness to his State. In the Legislature he is serving ably on the following committees: Judiciary; Education; Railroads; Municipalities. On June 13, 1915, Mr. Tubb was married to Hattie Vernon Jones, daughter of McLaurin Fannin Jones and Laura Alice Crutcher Jones of Coffeeville, Miss. McLaurin Jones' father was McLaurin Hamilton Jones, born January 9, 1826, near Nashville, Tenn. He was a son of Albert Oakley Jones who was born in 1780 in North Carolina, where he married a Miss Hamilton, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and a relative of Alexander Hamilton. Both were of Scotch-Irish descent.