CAMPBELL COUSINS CORRESPONDENCE
Osceola. Pa.,
June 12, 1923.
Dear Cousins:-
As I have been chosen
the representative of my family for the "Campbell
Cousins Correspondence:, I will endeavor to write you
a brief history of same.
My father,
Frank Tubbs,
was born April 12th, 1842, and died July 3rd, 1900,
leaving his
widow
and seven children to survive him. He lived on the
farm [in Osceola]
during the entire period of his life. Twelve years
after he died his son Bennie died.
Bennie
Tubbs was born May 6, 1889 and died from
burns June 9, 1912 in the Geneva [NY] City
Hospital.
My mother [Kate OUDERKIRK Tubbs]
is living with her six children, all of whom are
married. All the boys, Omer, George, and Frank, and
Nettie live in Geneva, N.Y.
Nettie,
born August 26, 1874, was married to
Charles
Kelley on August 26, 1894 and to her five
children were born, all of whom are living.
Omer,
born May 23, 1879, was
married
[to Edith Dorst]
on March 20, 1900 and had seven children born to them
of whom four are living, three boys and a girl, the
oldest, who is married.
Dianthe,
born July 16, 1885, married
John Deats
[pronounced 'dates']
in 1904 and has four children.
George,
born July 22, 1896, married
Mildred
Grinner of Geneva and to them a son was
born who died in infancy.
Frank,
born July 29, 1898, was married to
Anna Johnson,
November 10th, 1921.
I was born May 27, 1884,
and married
Claude Deats
on January 14th, 1904, and have three daughters,
Eula,
born October 16, 1904,
Iva
[Sayre], born
April 10, 1907, and
Ruby
[Lowery Luger Hunt],
born April 4, 1909.
My oldest daughter,
Eula, married
Cassius
Kizer October 16, 1921, and to them a son was born
April 1, 1923, known as
Kieth Kizer.
I surely will enjoy
writing to you all and will jot down every interesting
thing that comes along in the next three months, and
will send some snapshots of family.
I will close hoping this
will reach you in due time.