Ann Eliza Grant Tubbs 1853-1926

GRANT, CHANDLER, TUBBS, EWERS

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Date: 5/8/2007 at 07:51:40

Ann Eliza Grant was born at Bridgeport, Iowa, February 19, 1853, the second daughter of William C. Grant and Mary E. Chandler Grant. She was married to Sidney J. Tubbs February 1, 1881. To this union were born two sons, Isham who died at the age of eight years, and Archie, who lives on the old homestead at Rockville.
Mrs. Tubbs was a devout member of the Methodist Church and a faithful attendant at Sunday School, finding much joy and comfort in her Sunday School class, the King's Daughter's. She was also affiliated with the W.C.T.U. and the American Legion Auxiliary, which organizations she attended as health permitted.
She always had the welfare of her family at heart, and they were always first in her thoughts and ministrations. She was a home-loving body, but always fond of visitors and they ever found a royal welcome at her hearth. She had not enjoyed the best of health for the past two years, but was not of a complaining nature. She was always bright and cheerful, spreading joy in the home and among her many friends. She had the charachteristics of sturdy New England stock, being a granddaughter of General Samuel Chandler and a distant cousin of General. U.S. Grant.
Mrs. Tubbs was a great lover of nature and particularly loved flowers, and enjoyed taking her grandsons, Robert, S.J. and Dale Tubbs, amon the wild flowers in the woods. She was very much devoted to these little boys, which devotion was reciporcated in full.
Her death cam suddenly, Monday morning at 3 O'clock, August 23, 1926, after a brief illness of only four days, heart trouble being the cause.
Besides the grief-stricken husband, son Archie and wife, and the three little grandsons, she leaves to mourn their great loss, two sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Emily Grant Tubbs of Maquoketa, Mrs. H. Scott Ewers of Los Angeles, Calif.; William, Josep and Lee Grant of Maquoketa, and an uncle, Abner Grant of Clark, S. Dak.
The funeral services were held this Wednesday afternoon with a brief prayer service at the home on South Olive street at two o'clock, and at the First Methodist Episcopal church at 3 o'clock, the pastor, Rev. F.C. Worcester, officiating; burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery in the family lot.
The high esteem in which the deceased was held by both friends and neighbors was exemplified by the great masses of flowers which were sent to the home and to the church - floral tributes which so deeply expressed the deep sympathies of loving friends to the bereaved family.