Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-07
A MEMORIAL MEETING.
sTUBBs REUNION IN LANCASTER
COUNTY
One Hundred ana Sixteen of the Decer .;ants
OF Vincent Stubbs Assembled at The
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Thursday, June 1st, will be ever recol.
lected rs memorable epoch among the
descendants of an old established family
in Lancaster county. On this day, at the
old homestead. among the Susquehanna
hills, in Fulton township, now the resi-
dence of Thomas Stubbs, a grandson, was
gathered the descendants of Vincent
Stubs, in memory of their worthy ances-
tor. The time of meeting was 10 O'Clock
a. m, when the various preparations made
by the host were complete and everything
in order for the arrival of the expected
guests. By twelve over hundred persons
had arrived and at oae o'clock the last
installment reached the ground by train
from Oxford. At tho latter named hour
the chairman of the committee on refresh
ments, Mrs. Mary II. Stubbs, who. by the
way, deserves great credit for her good
management. announced that everything
was in readiness, when Grandchildren,
great grandchildren and :,reaC great grand.
children, to the numbcr Of one hundred
and sixteen. sat down al tables p .ced on
the lawn, we'll loaded V It'll ti,: 49,. things
eatable of this earth.
At two o'clock ali those present were
assembled on the spacious porch iii front
of the old mansion, where a meeting was
called by selecting john Coates, of
Parkesbarg, Chester county, as president,
with Hiss Bella Ncel and Lewis K. Stubbs
as secretaries. Dr.. Chas. H. Stubbs being
called on, read paper giving a historical
record of the Stubbs family from tho
original settler in this county down to a
period cotemporaneous with the settle
mont on the present farm of Vincent
Stubbs-whose memory W this day
being celebrated. He was !'i!owed by
Mrs. Priscilla Coates, who red an essay
in memoriam of DIR. John STUDIOS Parry
and Vincent S. Barnard, worthy members
of the family. She was followed by Mrs.
Rebecca d. King, of Little Britain, with
brief eulogy to the memory of Mrs.
Sarah Preston, another descendant of the
family. Miss Neel, one of tho secretaries,
by reques t, read the original copy of the
last will and testament of Thomas Stubbs,
the first known of the rame in this coun.
try. She was followed by Lewis X.
Stubbs, who read . copy of the will of
Daniel Stubbs, the first settler of the
name in Lancaster county.
The exercises at the house being par
TALLY completed, the s'i,sts repaired to
the site of the old MADISON house where
Vincent Stubbs and Priscilla Cooper be-
gan married life. Here the most impress
sive ceremony Of the day took place.
Near what was supposed to be the corner
of tho wall of the old building hole had
been dug and lined with quantity of rich
loan, in which a memorial tree Ca walnut)
selected for the occasion was planted.
During tho ceremony the tree Was hold in
position by the present. proprietor of the
farm and his wife, while those
present threw in the earth around
the roots. The first assigned to this
duty was the oldest descendant pre-
sent, grandchild, Mrs. Priscilla S.
Walton, of Erceldoun, Chester county,
who was followed in turn by Joseph G.
Stubbs and Rachel B. Gatchell, of Full
ton, Reuben and Vincent Stubbs of FORK
county. Mrs. Rebecca Richards and Mrs.
Sarah Lincoln, of Cecil county, Md, and
many others, down to the youngest child
able to throw a shovclfull of dirt. Tho
tree having been planted and secured by =
board enclosure, those present again re-
paired to the mansion, where they were
requested to sign memorial paper to be
left with the hostess and his lady Us a
memento of this family reunion. This
having been completed the setting sun
gave warning that the day was f:ii gone,
when tho guests departed for tEc, gespec-
tive homes, after having spent i. pleasant
time at the home of Il common ancestor.