 George,
Hazel and Bill Grubb
about 1942
|
Virginia, Tennessee, Iowa, Washington State |
| George,
Hazel and Bill Grubb
about 1942
|
Virginia, Tennessee, Iowa, Washington State |
George Claiborne Grubb
b. 10 March 1893 Chilehowie, Smyth Co., VA
d. 26 Dec 1967 Seattle, King Co., WA
buried: Forest Lawn Cemetery, South Seattle, WA
m. Hazel Grace Dyer Middaugh (former wife of
Lee Roy Middaugh)
Sept 30, 1913 Oskaloosa, Iowa [50th Anniv. annoucement 1963]
b. 28 March 1890 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa [Iowa Births and
Christenings]
d. 25 June 1968 Rest Lodge Nursing Home, Seattle, King Co., WA
buried: June 28, 1968 Forest Lawn Cemetery, South Seattle, WA
her father: Asa Theodore Dyer
mother: Mary Willis Henry
her first marriage: Lee Roy Middaugh 27
January 1910 St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri
his father - J. C.
Middaugh mother:
Mary Puttoff
his father: William Nichols Grubb
his mother: Sara Francis Freelove
Doyle
| Only child | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| William Theodore Grubb | b. 10 Dec 1920 King Co., WA | d. 21 Aug 2003 at home, King Co., Seattle, WA | m. Marlene M. Marshall |
Only recently did we discover through the help of Cheryl
Kirkpatrick that Hazel had lived in Creston Township, Iowa and had
apparently married to Roy Middaugh. We had believed that
Hazel had given birth to another child but we have no proof.
This early marriage gives us some hope that we may find out what
happened. He was under age 21 and had to have his father
sign whereas she was twenty and above the age of consent, which
was 18 for women. We believe that she may have had a
still-birth since William T. Grubb was born by caesarian section
about ten years after the 1910 census and no living child existed
during this later marriage. The foreboding of the earlier
birth may have prepared her for a successful birth with a new
husband, George Grubb.
1905 - Iowa State Census, Poweshiek Co, Grinnell, 713 Center
St. (this census only lists the individuals and address with
no other information)
Wm.
Grubb
John
Grubb
Henry
Grubb
Ada Grubb
George
Grubb
Cora
Grubb
Robert
Grubb
G. W. Fry
1909, at Camp Jossman, - Middaugh, Lee
R. who had enrolled in the U.
S. Army at Craston, Iowa, lists his occupation as a "Painter" , is
"Dishonorably Discharged" Aug. 9, 1909.
[US Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, National Archives. ]
1910, January 26 - Miss Grace Hazel Dyer and Lee Roy Middaugh
apply for a marriage license in Buchanan Co.,
Missouri. Lee had to have his father J. C. Middaugh
sign for him.
[Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Jan. 1910,
certificate #90, page 406]
1910 Iowa Census, Page 13b 1st ward Creston Township, Union County. households 229-331
Dyer, Theodore head age 53 mar 28years IL IN IN bricklayer owns homeGeorge and Hazel met while working for different restaurants in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was cook and she was a waitress. Hazel was only 4 feet 9.5 inches. George was 5 feet 10 inches. She naturally made him look quite tall.
Dyer, Mary wife 45 mar 28 years 5 children/4 living KY KY KY
Middaugh, Roy son in law 19 mar 0years IO IL KY house painter
Middaugh, Hazel daughter 20 mar 0years IO IL KY
Henry, Martha mother in law 93 widow 10 children/6 living KY US US
Dyer, Charles son 17 IL IL KY works for railroad
1914-16 - During WWI George was a cook in the Iowa National Guard, First Separate Company Infantry. He enlisted 3 Aug. 1914 for three years and was Honorably discharged on Sept. 30, 1916.
1917- US Draft Registration, Grinnell, Powesheik Co., IA.
number 587 or 66
1917 - George and Hazel moved to Seattle WA in 1917. George worked
as a stone mason. Then he worked for a steel mill and shipyards
before .
1920, Dec. 31 - He is accepted as a firefighter in the Seattle
Fire Station #1.
1920 - US Census, Seattle, King Co., WA. west Manning St. enum.
dist. 331, sheet 6a
Grubb, Hazel G. (is placed out of order with an arrow to indicate
the wife of George) I've placed them in the correct placement for
easy interpretation. This also indicates that the birth
record is scrambled for Hazel and George.
Grubb,
Hazel
wife rent
m w 26
mar
Virginia Tenn.
Virginia
holder Shipyard (this should be with George' birth)
Grubb, George head
rent m w 24 mar
Iowa
Illinois
Kentucky
(Hazel's
birth
was
in
Iowa)
Dyer, Theodore father-in-law m
w 63
wd
Virginia Tenn.
Virginia
none
Grubb, Robert
brother
m w 23
wd
Virginia Tenn.
Virginia
machinist Shipyard
Iowa,
Shenandoah Ward 4, Grant Township p. 103
Le Roy Middaugh is 29 living at home with his parents and two
brothers. All brothers are single. Le
Roy is now working as a stone cutter.
1920, Dec 31 - He joined the Seattle Fire Department. He
was well known among the other units for his cooking.
George was particularly strong for his size. He was often
challenged and had such a muscular neck that no one could get
their hands around his neck to choke him. He could hold his wife
out sitting on his arm and people could hit him in the stomach
with no effect. He was quite skilled with his hands and built
several houses in West Seattle in his off hours. He lived in each
of these before moving onto the next house. He retired in 1946
from the Seattle Fire Department after 25 years' service.
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George Grubb may be top center
of the ladder truck
about 1920, Seattle [photo collection of Cheryl
Christenson]
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George Grubb is one of the fireman
posed here in Seattle(far left).
[photo collection of Cheryl
Christenson]
|
1925 - Iowa Census. Page County, Shanandoah,
Iowa roll IA-34 #10925
1930- US Census, Seattle, King Co.,
Washington. Enum. dist. 17-415 , sheet 28a. page 255.
They're living on Fauntleroy Way. S. W.
1946 (about) - First Grubb house on 33rd SW. , Seattle
Hazel stays busy and apparently takes classes in drawing and
painting at the YMCA in the 1940's. She does several
paintings as copies of master works. This particular one
was taken from a pretty good reproduction of Léon Bonnat, a
French painter (1833-1922), "Roman Girl at the Fountain" 1875,
which hangs in the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.
She initialed the painting in the lower right corner with
HGG. (Hazel Grace Grubb) The back said "For Bill"
meaning that we believe she designated this as to go to Bill,
her son, on her death. It was not in the Bill Grubb
household until that time.
1941. August 23 - A long article is published on the food activities and the cooking of the fire departments in Seattle in a full page article. George, at station #2 at Fourth Ave and Battery St. is in three photos on page 14. "With a folded newspaper as a chef's cap. Grubb puts anything from a Dutch lunch to four-course dinner on the table for firemen. They praise his cooking, but he counters with 'they just aren't fussy.'"
about 1959-60 - George buys a lot on which
to build a house. One thing that he found demeaning was
having to ask for his son's help in obtaining a loan to
build. His son qualified for government loan but George
had always bought everything with cash so he had no credit
history. Once the first house was remodeled and sold he
had enough cash to continue his building campaign and in his off
hours from the fire department he either worked on his own or on
his son's houses. He finally built one in which he
expected to retire and customized the kitchen for Hazel who was
only 4 feet 10 inches. Everything was designed around her
height. [story related by Marlene Grubb]
They lived only one block from his son, Bill. They
bought a lot with very small one bedroom house (above)
that had been added onto several times. They installed some
modern conveniences such as an indoor bathroom and a better
lighting system. When they first moved into the house the
out building in the back, which looked like a garage, was
surprisingly occupied by an woman who had lived there for years
with a dirt floor, a wood heater, no insulation, and only a cold
water faucet. She must have also used the outhouse on the
property. I don't know if she was forced to move or simply
died there. George eventually has a chicken coop along
side and hand digs a basement under the little house. Even
though George and Bill poured a concrete floor the basement was
always wet in the winter. Hazel used to hang her
clothes in the basement and wood heater here could keep the
whole house warm.
They use this little house as a staging area for
the construction of the even more modern house next door.
He may have been intending to tear down the little house since
he placed the new house overlapping the old property line.
He never got around the changing the property line
legally.
Else Marshall and Hazel Grubb visiting on Mother's Day in
1955. Hazel was rather short as seen here. Her
grand-daughter, Cheryl, took her family looks.
After retirement George continued building and often did roofing
as a retirement activity.
1963 - George and Hazel celebrate their 50th Anniversary in
Seattle, WA. He apparently had retired to take care of Hazel who
had Alzheimer's,
1967, Dec. ,- George C. Grubb dies, he is
buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, Seattle, WA on Dec
26th. [Seattle Times, obituary.
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50th Anniversary, 1963 |
1968, June 25 - Hazel Dyer Grubb dies only 6 months after
George, who had cared for her, through a long decline with
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease, and pneumonia at Rest Lodge
Nursing Home. [Seattle Times, June 1968]
Source:
George Grubb's brothers and sisters
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