Columbus Franklin Stubbs

Brief Life History of Columbus Franklin

When Columbus Franklin Stubbs was born on 6 February 1869, in Texas, Missouri, United States, his father, Barzela Houston Stubbs, was 31 and his mother, Iris Oglesby Kissiah Oliver, was 27. He married Lena Frances Melton on 12 June 1888. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Clinton Township, Texas, Missouri, United States for about 40 years. He died on 22 May 1935, in Mountain Grove, Wright, Missouri, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Texas, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Columbus Franklin Stubbs
1869–1935
Lena Frances Melton
1871–1924
Marriage: 12 June 1888
Bertha Iris Stubbs
1890–1972
Clara Daphne Stubbs
1893–1961
Lola B. Stubbs
1895–1978

Sources (10)

  • C F Stubbs in household of B H Stubbs, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Columbus F. Stubbs - birth: 11 February 1869; Missouri, United States
  • Columbus Franklin Stubbs, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

English:

variant of Stubbe with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.

perhaps occasionally a topographic name from Middle English stub(be) ‘tree stump’ + hous ‘house’, used for someone who lived in a house by a tree stump.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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