Alice was the 4th of 8 children born to John & Dorcas "Marteney" Hudkins. She married Schuyler Colfax Stubbs on September 28, 1881 in Fulton County, Indiana.
Alice was a good cook and she grew most of her food, and raised chickens so that she could trade her eggs and chickens for flour, coffee, and sugar with the "huckster" that came once a week. A "huckster" was a little grocery on wheels that would come to homesteads to do trading.
Alice was very thoughtful and kind; she would always leave food in the mail box for the mailman. Another time a peddler came by selling Sugar Pear Trees, and Alice fed him and he gave her a tree. She planted it and it became the favorite family tree. It would produce lots of delicious Sugar Pears that everyone canned.
Alice loved to raise chickens; many times she would have to reach under the hen to get the eggs and the hens would peck her. If she wanted baby chicks, she would sometimes place an old crate over a hen on the ground with a nest of straw and put food and water by the crate. The hen could eat and drink all that she needed for 21 days and afterwards you would see a proud hen with her chicks in the barnyard. If a bad storm would come, Alice would run out to the "brooder" and gather the chicks to make sure they would not drown.
She did not have an ice box so she used the one room basement under the kitchen to store her eggs, cream, butter, and canned goods. There was a potato bin at one end of the basement and at the end of winter, the potatoes would be getting scare and putting on growth.
From the Rochester Sentinel Newspaper, Saturday, April 3, 1943:
Mrs. Alice STUBBS, of near Kewanna, passed away at her home Friday noon of complications resulting from a four-year long illness.
Mrs. Stubbs was born November 30, 1860, three miles east of Kewanna and had resided in Kewanna all of her life. Her parents were John and Rebecca HUDKINS.
Mrs. Stubbs was a member of the Baptist church in Kewanna.
Survivors include her husband, R. C. STUBBS; two daughters, Mrs. W. S. NICHOLSON of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. M. F. OSBORN of Niles, Mich.; one son, V. D. STUBBS of Pensacola, Fla.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The deceased was the last survivor of a family of ten children.
Funeral arrangements are as yet pending and they will be announced in a later edition of The News-Sentinel.
Alice was a good cook and she grew most of her food, and raised chickens so that she could trade her eggs and chickens for flour, coffee, and sugar with the "huckster" that came once a week. A "huckster" was a little grocery on wheels that would come to homesteads to do trading.
Alice was very thoughtful and kind; she would always leave food in the mail box for the mailman. Another time a peddler came by selling Sugar Pear Trees, and Alice fed him and he gave her a tree. She planted it and it became the favorite family tree. It would produce lots of delicious Sugar Pears that everyone canned.
Alice loved to raise chickens; many times she would have to reach under the hen to get the eggs and the hens would peck her. If she wanted baby chicks, she would sometimes place an old crate over a hen on the ground with a nest of straw and put food and water by the crate. The hen could eat and drink all that she needed for 21 days and afterwards you would see a proud hen with her chicks in the barnyard. If a bad storm would come, Alice would run out to the "brooder" and gather the chicks to make sure they would not drown.
She did not have an ice box so she used the one room basement under the kitchen to store her eggs, cream, butter, and canned goods. There was a potato bin at one end of the basement and at the end of winter, the potatoes would be getting scare and putting on growth.
From the Rochester Sentinel Newspaper, Saturday, April 3, 1943:
Mrs. Alice STUBBS, of near Kewanna, passed away at her home Friday noon of complications resulting from a four-year long illness.
Mrs. Stubbs was born November 30, 1860, three miles east of Kewanna and had resided in Kewanna all of her life. Her parents were John and Rebecca HUDKINS.
Mrs. Stubbs was a member of the Baptist church in Kewanna.
Survivors include her husband, R. C. STUBBS; two daughters, Mrs. W. S. NICHOLSON of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. M. F. OSBORN of Niles, Mich.; one son, V. D. STUBBS of Pensacola, Fla.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The deceased was the last survivor of a family of ten children.
Funeral arrangements are as yet pending and they will be announced in a later edition of The News-Sentinel.
Alice was the 4th of 8 children born to John & Dorcas "Marteney" Hudkins. She married Schuyler Colfax Stubbs on September 28, 1881 in Fulton County, Indiana.
Alice was a good cook and she grew most of her food, and raised chickens so that she could trade her eggs and chickens for flour, coffee, and sugar with the "huckster" that came once a week. A "huckster" was a little grocery on wheels that would come to homesteads to do trading.
Alice was very thoughtful and kind; she would always leave food in the mail box for the mailman. Another time a peddler came by selling Sugar Pear Trees, and Alice fed him and he gave her a tree. She planted it and it became the favorite family tree. It would produce lots of delicious Sugar Pears that everyone canned.
Alice loved to raise chickens; many times she would have to reach under the hen to get the eggs and the hens would peck her. If she wanted baby chicks, she would sometimes place an old crate over a hen on the ground with a nest of straw and put food and water by the crate. The hen could eat and drink all that she needed for 21 days and afterwards you would see a proud hen with her chicks in the barnyard. If a bad storm would come, Alice would run out to the "brooder" and gather the chicks to make sure they would not drown.
She did not have an ice box so she used the one room basement under the kitchen to store her eggs, cream, butter, and canned goods. There was a potato bin at one end of the basement and at the end of winter, the potatoes would be getting scare and putting on growth.
From the Rochester Sentinel Newspaper, Saturday, April 3, 1943:
Mrs. Alice STUBBS, of near Kewanna, passed away at her home Friday noon of complications resulting from a four-year long illness.
Mrs. Stubbs was born November 30, 1860, three miles east of Kewanna and had resided in Kewanna all of her life. Her parents were John and Rebecca HUDKINS.
Mrs. Stubbs was a member of the Baptist church in Kewanna.
Survivors include her husband, R. C. STUBBS; two daughters, Mrs. W. S. NICHOLSON of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. M. F. OSBORN of Niles, Mich.; one son, V. D. STUBBS of Pensacola, Fla.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The deceased was the last survivor of a family of ten children.
Funeral arrangements are as yet pending and they will be announced in a later edition of The News-Sentinel.
Alice was a good cook and she grew most of her food, and raised chickens so that she could trade her eggs and chickens for flour, coffee, and sugar with the "huckster" that came once a week. A "huckster" was a little grocery on wheels that would come to homesteads to do trading.
Alice was very thoughtful and kind; she would always leave food in the mail box for the mailman. Another time a peddler came by selling Sugar Pear Trees, and Alice fed him and he gave her a tree. She planted it and it became the favorite family tree. It would produce lots of delicious Sugar Pears that everyone canned.
Alice loved to raise chickens; many times she would have to reach under the hen to get the eggs and the hens would peck her. If she wanted baby chicks, she would sometimes place an old crate over a hen on the ground with a nest of straw and put food and water by the crate. The hen could eat and drink all that she needed for 21 days and afterwards you would see a proud hen with her chicks in the barnyard. If a bad storm would come, Alice would run out to the "brooder" and gather the chicks to make sure they would not drown.
She did not have an ice box so she used the one room basement under the kitchen to store her eggs, cream, butter, and canned goods. There was a potato bin at one end of the basement and at the end of winter, the potatoes would be getting scare and putting on growth.
From the Rochester Sentinel Newspaper, Saturday, April 3, 1943:
Mrs. Alice STUBBS, of near Kewanna, passed away at her home Friday noon of complications resulting from a four-year long illness.
Mrs. Stubbs was born November 30, 1860, three miles east of Kewanna and had resided in Kewanna all of her life. Her parents were John and Rebecca HUDKINS.
Mrs. Stubbs was a member of the Baptist church in Kewanna.
Survivors include her husband, R. C. STUBBS; two daughters, Mrs. W. S. NICHOLSON of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. M. F. OSBORN of Niles, Mich.; one son, V. D. STUBBS of Pensacola, Fla.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The deceased was the last survivor of a family of ten children.
Funeral arrangements are as yet pending and they will be announced in a later edition of The News-Sentinel.
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