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Henry Stubbs and family
Henry Stubbs was born into the Quaker community of West Elkton in 1806, OH where his father and mother had moved after leaving the Quaker community of Wrightsborough, GA in 1805. Henry was the 9th child born to Nathan and Elizabeth Jones Stubbs; one more child, Elijah, was born to the couple in 1808. Henry married Rachel Pray in 1828 and inherited farm land and a grist mill on Elk Creek, Butler County, OH from his father in 1835. Henry and Rachel had 5 children. Rachel died in 1836. In 1837 he married Mary Louisa Eccles and they had 6 children. Henry built a saw mill on the creek. Mary grew ill and a doctor recommended she drink 'free stone' water from her birth place in North Carolina. In 1846, Henry, Mary and two youngest sons, Milton and Charles Rolla traveled by horse and wagon to North Carolina where Mary recovered after a stay of three months. They also visited Henry's parents earlier home in Wrightsborough, GA and returned home to OH in 1847. Mary Louisa died in 1851. Henry moved to Indiana and married Mary Stroud Grave in 1852.
After farming in Indiana for a few years and failing to build a new mill near Lagro, IN, when another miller built nearby first; Henry and family moved to Minnesota in 1856. They homesteaded on the northern edge of Lake Minnetonka near the town of Long Lake. Henry ran the first post office in the area. In 1897 the Stubbs and Grave families held a joint reunion in Long Lake. After several joint reunions, the descendants of Henry Stubbs founded a Stubbs Cousin Reunion in 1922 and have held a reunion each year since. In 1997 the Stubbs Cousins Reunion celebrated their 75th anniversary.