Hubbard, George H.
Local real estate man and abstractor died at the home of his
son, Col Douglas Hubbard. Services were held in the Presbyterian
Church with the Dr. Earl Morgan of Osage Beach officiating Burial
was in the family lot in the Versailles cemetery.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. William Timothy Hubbard, he was
born at Syracuse November 1, 1865. He was a member of a pioneer family.
His grandparents came from Kentucky in 1820 to settle at Waverly.
In 1890 Mr. Hubbard came to Versailles to be duputy for his brother who
had been elected County Clerk. On May 16, 1894, Mr. Hubbard married
Miss Mary Nancy Ivy, daughter of Gen and Mrs. Monroe Ivy. In 1896
Mr. Hubbard and a group of other Morgan county men made the run into the
Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma when it was opened to white settlers.
He staked a claim which he later sold. He died June 30, 1942.
He is survived by a duaghter: Mrs Mara T. Keevil of Syracuse; a son: Col.
Douglas Hubbard of Versailles; six grandchildren: Mrs. George H. Harrington
Jr. of Fort Worth Texas, Mrs. E. M. Daily of Fulton, Mrs. Gordon E. Crosby
Jr. of Oakland California, Cadet Hale Hubbard of West Point, M.T. Keevil
Jr. and Miss Parrricia Keevil of Syracuse. Four great grandchildren:
Janice Ann Harrington, Gordon E. Crosby, douglas Hubbard Crosby and Thomas
Eugene Daily; three neices: Mrs Charles Osborne of Sedalia, Mrs A.N. Scott
of Maplewood New Jersey and Mrs Harry Heck of California Missouri.
Preceding him in death were his parents; his brothers: Dr. D.J. Hubbard
and Will Hubbard; a sister: Sally Hubbard, who died as a child, and a half
brother Joe Bannell.