Early Tubbs of the Southern Tubb
Clan
Link to Index and Surname Page of Tubb Site
My goal in writing this
introductory summary of what is known and conjectured about the early members
of the southern Tubb clan is to bring the information that I have together in
one place in a narrative form.
Gedcoms are excellent forms for communicating genealogical information,
but they have the disadvantage of presenting genealogical and historical
material in bits and pieces and often not giving sources for the information.
In this introductory narrative I do give brief citations to sources for
important information.
Tubbs family research has
had the great advantage of having a number of researchers who were working with
the family history in the early 1900Ős.
George M. Tubb wrote a lengthy letter about southern Tubbs family history to his
niece Maggie Tubb in 1912, which is filled with valuable information. Fortunately, this letter was not lost. Lora Lee Layne received a copy of the
letter, transcribed the letter and had the transcription notarized in 1965.
Lora Lee Layne was a very
careful Tubbs researcher and I am fortunate to have a large amount of material
that she shared with my motherŐs cousin, Bess Hall Pearce. Both women wanted to join the DAR. Bess had done so earlier than her
collaboration with Lora Layne on
a family line based on what proved to be inaccurate information that came from
a hired genealogist. From the letters I have from LLL (as I shall call her) and
from my conversations and correspondence with Bess in the 1970Ős and 80Ős, they
were determined in their research on the Tubb family to Ňget it right.Ó
LLL made some trips to the southern states from her home in Texas and
corresponded with members of the Tubb family and Tubb researchers that she
unearthed. I owe her an enormous
debt of gratitude for what I now know about the Tubb/s family.
Ray Parish, in his book The
Tubb Family of Monroe County, Mississippi and Their Kin gives very valuable information about many
generations and family line of the southern Tubb family. It was a difficult resource for me to
find. A cousin who had found it in
a library and who had copied many pages sent copies of her copies on to
me. I was able to get some more
copies from a library in Monroe County.
Another book is William
Marion Thomas Tubbs and Descendents - 1827-1914. A member of the Tubb mailing list on Rootsweb sent some copies of early pages of the book. I was able to find the book Daniel Tubb, 1794-1882 of South
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Descendants by Diane Lollar, Bruce Myers & Bill Tubbs in the Borger, Texas Public Library. Bruce Meyers, in a letter to Jan
Armstrong in 1966 which is on Jan ArmstrongŐs website states that the first
Tubb of the southern clan is a John Tubb but does not mention the name of
JohnŐs wife. A third book cited by
Parish is An Agnate Line -- Tubb by Mrs. Alice Tubb Kremser.
Once I input the information
I had from the letters of LLL into my genealogy software (Reunion because I use a Mac) I began surfing the web for additional clues for the
Tubb family History. I have
mentioned Jan ArmstrongŐs excellent website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janarmstrong/index.html I have also
used the Internet to search for cemetery and other records.
My Own Tubbs Family Line
My great grandmother on my
motherŐs fatherŐs side was Nancy Lavonia Tubb, born into a privileged family in
Perry County, AL on 11 Oct 1844.
Nancy was the daughter of Jackson Tubb and Permelia Jane [McLaughlin]
Tubb. Jackson Tubb died less than a year after Nancy was born in August of
1845. In 1849 Permelia Jane
McLaughlin married JacksonŐs cousin Reuben Tubb.
The Tubb clan was a
close-knit family and it was not unheard of for cousins to marry. JacksonŐs father was Richard Tubb; his
mother was Margaret Davidson.
JacksonŐs grandfather and grandmother, George and Elizabeth Tubb, were
first cousins who were married about 1783, most likely in Rutherford County,
North Carolina. Reuben TubbŐs
parents were Sion Tubb and Rebecca Perry. William Tubb, SionŐs grandfather, was
the brother of JacksonŐs grandmother Elizabeth. Got it? J I will provide some family group sheets and
Ahnentafel charts to make the relationships more clear.
Nonetheless, it was clearly
a close family with what appear to be the usual numbers of family
legends. I will try to
differentiate fact from legend in outlining the story of the family origins.
MARYLAND TUBBS
My first piece of information
about Tubbs in Maryland came from a query in a genealogical journal which I
found on one of my first trips to the Family History Library in Salt Lake in
the late 1970Ős or early 1980Ős.
A query from The Researcher of Chillicothe, Missouri:. ŇNeed info on James TUBB,
d. 1720 St. MaryŐs Co., MD Was Richard Tubb of Md his bro? Who was Benjamin Tub of Md.? Was he also a bro. of James; Benj. was
a soldier in Md. in 1754. Are any
of these men parents of Geo. Tubb, and Bro. Wm. Tubb o Orange Co., N.C. Geo. m.
Mary ____; Wm. m. Eliza. _____Ő were in Orange Co., 1769; later went to
Rutherford Co.; the to Greenville Co., S. C. Does anyone have info. on ch. of George and Wm. Query from Mrs. Eloise Talley of
Safford, Ariz.
Richard
Tubbs Year:1660 Place: Maryland Source Publication Code: 8510 Primary Immigrant:
Tubbs,
Richard Annotation:
Index
from manuscript by Arthur Trader, Chief Clerk in the Maryland Land Commission,
1917. And see nos. 4507-4511, Land Notes. Source
Bibliography: SKORDAS, GUST, editor. The Early Settlers of Maryland: an
Index to Names of Immigrants, Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680,
in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing
Co., 1968. 525p. Repr. 1986.
Isaac
Tubbs Year: 1666 Place: Maryland
Source Publication Code:
8510 Primary Immigrant: Tubbs, Isaac Annotation: Index from manuscript by Arthur
Trader, Chief Clerk in the
Maryland Land Commission, 1917. And see nos. 4507-4511, Land Notes.
Source Bibliography:
SKORDAS, GUST, editor.
The Early Settlers of Maryland: an Index to Names of Immigrants, Compiled from
Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis,
Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968. 525p. Repr. 1986.
Page: 471
An
Isabell Tubbs was listed on the same page; presumably they were husband and
wife.
A
recent correspondence on the Rootsweb Tubbs mailing list from Jeanne Barkley
who descends from these Tubbs brought the following information:
Judy,
I'm related to the Tubbs of Worcester County, Maryland and Sussex
County,
Delaware.
My GGGG Grandfather, James Tubbs was born in 1730 and died around
1782. He
first married Sarah Diricksen who died 9 months after the
marriage. He
later married Levinah Farewell on 17 Feb 1754. Their children were: Samuel
and James, b. 1753 (twins who were born to Sarah Diricksen - I
expect she
died in childbirth);
Sarah, b. 4 Apr 1755; John, b. 1 Feb 1757; Elizabeth,
b. 20 Oct 1759; Joseph, b. 27 Sep 1762; Rebecca, b. 25 Jun 1766
and Comfort,
b. 4 Jan 1769.
John Tubbs was my GGG Grandfather. He married Lovinah or Leviner Freeman
(can't find the correct spelling of her name). He was born 1 Feb 1757 and
died around 1797.
Their children were: James;
John; William; Mary, b. 16
Oct 1785; Samuel, b. 6 Feb 1791; Moses, b. 1793, d. 1 Apr 1852 in
Concord,
Delaware.
Moses was my GG Grandfather.
He married Priscilla Hall.
Their children
were: James H. Tubbs,
b. 6 Jun 1823, d. 2 Jan 1896 in Crowley, LA
Nancy Stewart Tubbs, b. 3 Oct 1825; d. 3 Sep 1910 in Wango,
Maryland
John Tubbs, b. 30 Nov 1827; d. 28 Dec 1898, in Anne Arundel
County, Maryland
Mary Wilson Tubbs, b. 2 Oct 1830; d. 12 Feb 1924 in Denton,
Maryland
Samuel Tubbs, b. 26 Feb. 1834; d. 3 Oct 1844
David Hall Tubbs, b. 19 Aug 1835; d. 12 Oct 1924 in Denton,
Maryland
Sarah (Sallie) H. Tubbs, b. 1 Sep 1836; d. bef. 1910
William Tubbs, b. 26 Feb 1839; d. bef. 1910
Tabitha H. Tubbs, b. 17 Dec 1841; d. bef. 1910
Michael Thomas Tubbs, b. 27 May 1843; d. 5 Jan 1912, Wilmington,
DE
(Riverview Cemetery)
John Tubbs was my G Grandfather married Olivia Anne Stewart, 21
Dec 1858 in
Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Their children were:
John Linton Tubbs
J. Stewart Tubbs
Frank Rowland Tubbs
Harry Tubbs
Caroline Tubbs
Olivia Tubbs
Eugenia Viola Tubbs
Addie Hall Tubbs, b. 24 Jun 1874; d. 17 Oct 1961
I know that the Moses and Priscilla Tubbs are buried in the Tubbs
Family
Graveyard in Concord, Delaware but I've been unable to locate it
despite
numerous visits. It probably
became overgrown over the years and just
disappeared. James
Tubbs belonged to St. Martins Parish in Worcester
County, MD during the 1700's. There are records showing this. I've never
come across a Benjamin Tubbs but will keep your e-mail and let you
know if I
do. I do have a
brother and will check with him to see if he would be
interested in participating in the DNA Project.
In the meantime would love to keep in touch with you to find out
if we have
a connection.
Jeanne Barkley
