November 16, 1963
Saturday, cloudy, 40. Clifton, Sue and I went shopping to Cobleskill in am. David worked last day. Carol was at Mary Ann's. Earl came home from hospital. Earl Christiana was here in am.
Comment: We are related to the Christianas through Margaret Anna Christiania who was Gamalia Hubbard's wife and mother to Elmer & John Hubbard. Anna lived in the house that my family occupied that is now owned by Jeffery & Elizabeth Hubbard. Earl Christiana and his wife Kitty, and son, Hubie, often visited from Kingston where they lived. Earl was a big hunter and always arrived with the latest hunting finery; red-checked woolen outfits, Browning automatic shotguns. They seemed very refined and well-to-do and were very soft-spoken and polite. As a matter of fact, the reason Earl C visited is because today is the first or second day of deer season, a time that brought a lot of folks to the hill, that and Thanksgiving.,.....
"Thanksgiving came with hunting season,
Lot's of folks would find a reason
To come "up home" to join in meals and song,
We'd gather round that old piano,
Dad sang bass Mom sang soprano
And uncles aunts and cousins sang along.
And the old time Christian hymns would soar and chime,
With harmonies so sweet and so sublime,
Then all the men would go hunt deer while all the ladies helped to clear the table for the meal at suppertime....excerpt "Hubbard Hill Memories" Click link below to hear and see more:
http://hubbardfamilymusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/hubbard-hill-memories-100th-posting-on.html
Here is a post about Anna being injured by a horse and some other information.
A Horse Story
Conesville—Mrs. Gamalia Hubbard met with a singular accident not long since, which might have proved very serious.
She was reaching in the horse manger after eggs, when the horse caught her hood and hair between it’s teeth and jammed her head against the manger with such force that her eyes were badly injured; so much so that for a short time she supposed that she had lost the sight of one eye; and they are still badly swollen and discolored.
..Gilboa Monitor, April 8, 1886
This was Margaret Ann Christiana, (1849-1933), married to Gamalia Hubbard, (1852-1883), who died of appendicitis when he was 31 or so. She was called Anna.
They met while both worked for Col. Zadock Pratt in Prattsville, of Pratt's Rocks fame. He started a leather tanning business in the area.
On April 24, 1882, they bought land on what is now known as Hubbard Hill. The middle part of the our homestead was the original log cabin that Gamalia and Anna lived in. Previous to that, they lived further up the mountain on the old foundation behind David's campsite.
Their children were Elmer, my grandfather, & John, who had no children. Gamalia & Anna are buried in Grand Gorge Cemetery.
She was apparently a much loved grandmother of Elmer's children and I remember my Dad talking about his visits to her.
This incident happened about 3 years after her husband's death, when she was about thirty seven years old. Elmer, born in 1882, was about one year old when his father died and about 3 years old when this incident occured. It also must have occured on Hubbard Hill.
Interesting that she outlived her husband by fifty years....... Also interesting to think about how many of the current generation would have died of appendicitis had we been unlucky enough to have been born a hundred years earlier.
Thanks To Bea Haskin For The Information
"Thanksgiving came with hunting season,
Lot's of folks would find a reason
To come "up home" to join in meals and song,
We'd gather round that old piano,
Dad sang bass Mom sang soprano
And uncles aunts and cousins sang along.
And the old time Christian hymns would soar and chime,
With harmonies so sweet and so sublime,
Then all the men would go hunt deer while all the ladies helped to clear the table for the meal at suppertime....excerpt "Hubbard Hill Memories" Click link below to hear and see more:
http://hubbardfamilymusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/hubbard-hill-memories-100th-posting-on.html
Here is a post about Anna being injured by a horse and some other information.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Natura non contristur: A Horse Story
A Horse Story
Conesville—Mrs. Gamalia Hubbard met with a singular accident not long since, which might have proved very serious.
She was reaching in the horse manger after eggs, when the horse caught her hood and hair between it’s teeth and jammed her head against the manger with such force that her eyes were badly injured; so much so that for a short time she supposed that she had lost the sight of one eye; and they are still badly swollen and discolored.
..Gilboa Monitor, April 8, 1886
This was Margaret Ann Christiana, (1849-1933), married to Gamalia Hubbard, (1852-1883), who died of appendicitis when he was 31 or so. She was called Anna.
They met while both worked for Col. Zadock Pratt in Prattsville, of Pratt's Rocks fame. He started a leather tanning business in the area.
On April 24, 1882, they bought land on what is now known as Hubbard Hill. The middle part of the our homestead was the original log cabin that Gamalia and Anna lived in. Previous to that, they lived further up the mountain on the old foundation behind David's campsite.
Their children were Elmer, my grandfather, & John, who had no children. Gamalia & Anna are buried in Grand Gorge Cemetery.
She was apparently a much loved grandmother of Elmer's children and I remember my Dad talking about his visits to her.
This incident happened about 3 years after her husband's death, when she was about thirty seven years old. Elmer, born in 1882, was about one year old when his father died and about 3 years old when this incident occured. It also must have occured on Hubbard Hill.
Interesting that she outlived her husband by fifty years....... Also interesting to think about how many of the current generation would have died of appendicitis had we been unlucky enough to have been born a hundred years earlier.
Thanks To Bea Haskin For The Information
2 comments:
From Beth: that one brought back so many memories...Happy ones...looking out the south window in your living room and seeing the snow coming.....love your stuff Gerald....
From Marilyn:
Listened to it again, It is always fun "M"
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