- MARY A. HUBBARD, widow, Sec. 17; P.O. Evansville; maiden
name was Mary A.
- WATSON; born in Litchfield, Woodbury Co., Conn., May 20,
1820. She was the daughter of Mr. Benjamin B. WATSON, a native
of the State of Kentucky. She married, in Onondaga Co., N.Y.,
Sept. 15, 1836, Mr. Jedediah HUBBARD, a native of Windham, Green
Co., N.Y., born March 20, 1816. Mr. HUBBARD came to Wisconsin,
with his wife and family of three sons, in 1845, and settled
on the land he had entered in 1840. He engaged in improving
and cultivating his land, and continued farming until his death,
July 17, 1877, leaving his widow with four children; a daughter
having been born to them on the farm in Union Township, Rock
Co., where the widow still resides, she preferring to remain
on the old homestead, although the children have all married
and gone to homes of their own. The children and grandchildren
(the latter now number twelve) gather on every Thanksgiving Day
at the old homestead to spend the day with Mrs. HUBBARD, a practice
which they have followed since the first children married and
left the parental roof. The children are Ephraim B., born June
6, 1838; William H., born Oct. 4, 1840; Ben W., born Nov. 16,
1842; Edwin F., born Aug. 2, 1850. Mrs. HUBBARD owns 300 acres.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 864.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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