Robert A Hubbard Robert A Hubbard, born in 1820 in South Carolina and his wife Lucinda Hubbard are found in the Gordon County Georgia Census with three small children in June of 1850. They are Warren, age five, Lenard Franklin, age four, and Caledonia age three. (Caledonia is another word for Scotland.) Robert’s occupation is listed as a shoemaker. There was at least one other child later on named Jane.

Because of the immigration patterns prior to 1840, though there were settlers from other countries, in 1780 three out of every four citizens in the United States were of English or Irish descent. (According to the USA Government Journals)

The name Hubbard originated in Cheshire England and the Hubbard family traces their roots back to Norman Origin. (According to My Roots.com Surname)

In the 1864 Georgia Militia Enrollment Lists, commonly called the Joe Brown Census there is a collection of men who are not serving in the Confederate or Georgia State forces at the time. Robert A and Lenard F are found on the Pickens County List. Lenard is 17 and Robert is 50. Shoemakers were often exempt from was because they were so needed for their trade skills.

In 1864 Lenard enlisted in the Confederate Army. (According to his Confederate Pension Application) In May 1865 he was released. In August 1866 his first child, one of 11 that lived, was born.

Around 1868 Lenard and his wife Mary Bartlett left Georgia and came to Alabama. Robert A and several of Mary’s brothers made the trip with them. Lucinda, Robert Hubbard’s wife had died sometime before the trip. The story goes that the Hubbards and Bartletts came to Alabama in covered wagons. The trip took one week! Mary related how she was afraid to go to sleep at night for fear the wolves would get the baby.

When the group came to the Coosa River the water was high and the men had to build rafts to cross it. After they crossed they were unloading the raft and one of the steers leaped from the raft, tilting it up to one side causing one of the Bartlett boys to fall into the water. He drowned before they could reach him. He was about 15 years old.

The Hubbards and Bartletts settled around Shady grove Community, on Sand Mountain, in Etowah County Alabama. Many of the descendents still live there today.

Robert Hubbard was never happy after losing his wife and moving to Alabama. In the mid 1890s he decided to go to Texas to visit his daughter Jane. Several of the children remember Lenard taking his father to the train station. After a few months of not hearing from him, they begin to make inquires and learned that he had never even arrived in Texas. He was never heard from again, and none of the family ever knew exactly what happened to Robert Hubbard. (Last four paragraphs taken from Pauline Garmany Vaughn’s Trees and Branches)

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