Hubbard, Alvina 'Anna' (Giles) 1840- 1880

HUBBARD, GILES

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 6/6/2022 at 17:28:00

Elkader Register, Thur., 29 Apr. 1880. From the McGregor Times, undated.

Mrs. R. Hubbard, wife of our P.M., died on the 18th inst., aged 40 years, 2 months and 9 days.

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Added by S. Ferrall 6/6/2022:

Note: this full-length column obituary has been partially transcribed, nothing of genealogical value has been left out:

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This community was startled and saddened on Sunday morning by the announcement of the alarming sickness of Mrs. R. Hubbard, and unspeakably grieved when it became known that at half-past two o'clock the irresistible disease of septicaemia had done its work.

Mrs. Hubbard has been so long known and so greatly appreciated in the community whither she had come as a young bride, and where she had spent nearly sixteen years of a life of such usefulness as few reach.....

... she had been so faithful as wife and mother, and the [either live or five] children who were left motherless, and specially the little babe of two days, would so greatly miss her ...

... Anna E. Giles was born in New Salem, Mass., February 9, 1840; she studied at Oread College, Worcester, Mass., and at Ipswich Seminary, Mass., at which latter school she was graduated, and here she afterwards taught.

Thence she removed to Chicago, Ill., becoming a member of her brother's family, and teaching the regular branches and painting in Miss Gregg's school.

She was married in Chicago July 22, 1864, to Mr. Hubbard, and thenceforward became a resident of McGregor, and an occupant for over fifteen years of the one house she called home, till she was summoned to that "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

It is a singular fact that she was one out of a family of seven children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, but two of whom - a brother and herself - have died within ten months. But she was the first to be taken away from the family in which she was the wife and mother.

Mrs. Hubbard was an exemplary member of the Congregational church of McGregor, an excellent teacher of a large class of young ladies in the Sunday School, an active worker in the Woman's Missionary Society, and one of the original members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Yet she was very devoted to her family, and most careful of their welfare, their education and their moral and religious training.

Amid all her household and neighborly and religious cares she found time to execute many beautiful paintings, which are a precious legacy to her family and friends, and a memento of her fine taste and artistic study. Were it not for her energy, her systematic habits, and her independence of character she would have been able to accomplish only a small part of her multifarious labors. But they are all over for this life. She has entered into that "rest that remaineth to the people of God."

~North Iowa Times, Thursday, April 22, 1880; pg 3

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The remains of Mrs. R. Hubbard were taken up from Oakland cemetery and shipped to Joliett, Ills., to be laid to rest beside her husband.
~McGregor News, Wednesday, July 13, 1904; pg 5

Notes:
- 1880 mortality schedule names her as Alvina, her husband's obituary as Hannah

- R. Hubbard = Rudolphus Hubbard 1832-1903, see his obit for additional family information

- per findagrave: burial Oakwood cemetery, Joliet, Will co., IL. Mr. Hubbard's gravestone is shown, she may not have one