Tubb Family Crest
Elsie Tubbs was my great grandmother on my father’s side. She married John Barton. My Grandmother, Katharine Barton was their daughter. She married Percival Coover Kauffman.
There seems to be a bit of confusion about Elizabeth (Elsie) Tubbs and Alice Tubbs. They were both the wives of John Barton, just not at the same time. ??? Elsie was born in 1837 as Elizabeth Tubbs, the daughter of William Tubbs and Elizabeth Henritzy. Katharine was born in 1865 in Hazelton, PA. Lizzie, Charlies Kate, and Howard are also the children of Elsie Tubbs Barton. Records show that Elsie died on 3 May 1869. She is buried at the Vine Street Cemetery in Hazelton.
John then marries Alice Tubbs. Alice Tubbs was the daughter of Nathan Tubbs and Amina Goss born in 1845. There is no record that Elsie and Alice were related. William Tubbs had a brother, Nathan, but there is no record of a marriage or family. Mable, Ruth, Clifford, Stanley, Walter, Howard and Ruth are all the children of Alice Tubbs Barton.
We all remember Mable and Ruth, our great aunts who we visited many times in Hazelton when we were young, Neither married and they lived in an apartment with Anna, their housekeeper.
The 1910 Census shows that Mable is 12 years older than Ruth. The 1880 Census shows Mable as 6 years old. The 1900 Census shows Ruth as 15 and Mable as 26. So, I guess that is true. And since the Census consistently spells her name as le and not el, I guess that Mable is the correct spelling.
Now Katharine is spelled Katherine and Katharine in successive 1870, 1880 Census reports. It is not uncommon to have misspellings in these Census reports. Even in the Census in 1910, it is spelled with an e. Searching other family trees, I find spellings with a K or C and an e and an a. So, I will go to Uncle Walt’s spelling in his family tree, Katharine!
Captain William Tubbs143rd Pennsylvania VolunteersFought at Gettysburg, Cold Harbor and Antietum
William Tubbs father was Josiah Earl Tubbs. In the ancestry records, I found an application for the Sons of the American Revolution by an Arthur Raymond Mandeville.