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Della May Fuller Tubbs

Birth	:	4 May 1873 Waterbury, Dixon County, Nebraska, USA
Death	:	30 Jun 1956 White Salmon, Klickitat County, Washington, USA
Burial	:	Holton Cemetery, Holton, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.4611015, -95.7583008
Inscription	:	Shares headstone with Frank E. Burden (1885-1956), described as "a dear and close friend" in the obituary.
Description	:	Birthname: Della Mae Fuller Father: Benjamin Franklin Fuller Mother: Caroline Emma (Woodruff) Fuller Siblings: Mary Etta, Henry David, George Washington, David Franklin, Martha (Mattie) Ann, Alfred, Bertha M., Bessie Evanglina, Cora Isabelle, Libby Daisy, Blanche Alma, Grace Maude Fuller Husband: Charles Henry Tubbs married June 9, 1889 in Springbank, Dixon Co., NB. Known Children: Elmer, Benjamin Chester, Albert Alfred, Delbert Merle, William Monroe and Earl Leon Tubbs ---------------- July 5, 1956 - Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA pg. 4 DELLA TUBBS, PIONEER WOMAN, PASSES AWAY One of the truly pioneer women of the area died in Skyline Hospital Saturday, June 30, 1956 following an illness... Read More	Birthname: Della Mae Fuller Father: Benjamin Franklin Fuller Mother: Caroline Emma (Woodruff) Fuller Siblings: Mary Etta, Henry David, George Washington, David Franklin, Martha (Mattie) Ann, Alfred, Bertha M., Bessie Evanglina, Cora Isabelle, Libby Daisy, Blanche Alma, Grace Maude Fuller Husband: Charles Henry Tubbs married June 9, 1889 in Springbank, Dixon Co., NB. Known Children: Elmer, Benjamin Chester, Albert Alfred, Delbert Merle, William Monroe and Earl Leon Tubbs ---------------- July 5, 1956 - Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA pg. 4 DELLA TUBBS, PIONEER WOMAN, PASSES AWAY One of the truly pioneer women of the area died in Skyline Hospital Saturday, June 30, 1956 following an illness of nearly two weeks. For the past four or five months her health had been failing. Della Tubbs, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline Fuller, was born in Waterbury, Dixon Co., NB on May 4, 1873. As a very little girl she made the trip west around the Horn with her parents from Maine to San Francisco and then on to the Oregon country, where the Fullers settled on a homestead at Lake Vancouver. When this was sold they moved to another homestead plot where the Stage Coach Inn is now located on Salmon Creek. Pushing ever inland, the Fullers took up a homestead claim at Chenowith where Della grew up. Here her mother died and was buried. It was in this Chenowith country that Della Fuller met Charles Tubbs and decided to marry him. They journeyed back to Springbank, Nebraska for the wedding which took place on June 9, 1889. Here the two eldest of six sons were born to them. But the lure of the west was strong in both Charles and Della so they returned to take up a homestead for themselves at the old Mill B site at Chenowith. Four more sons were born on this homestead property one of them, Delbert Merle, passed away in 1906 as a small child. Charles Tubbs proceeded his wife in death in 1931 at the home of his eldest son, Elmer, who at that time was living in Toledo, OR. Life was rugged in the west when Della and Charles were hewing out a home in the wilderness and rearing their boys. Supplies were packed into the back country. Each fall Charles Tubbs, with some of the older boys and neighbors made a trip to a nearby town for the winter grub. One year they were forced to live almost exclusively on deer meat. The wagon load of flour, sugar, coffee and other staples was washed away in the swollen stream they had to cross. Somewhere near the winter of 1907, as nearly as one of the sons could recall, the family did live on chicken and sauerkraut; it was all they had. So terrible was the winter ice and snow it was impossible to get out until spring to add to the larder. When they first made their home in the forest of trees Charles Tubbs supplemented the family income with work at the Oregon Lumber Company driving an ox team. He ran cattle in the Mill A district with Porter and Price. He used a pair of mules to clear the ground for his wife's first garden. And she always had a vegetable garden and a few chickens. She traded with the Indians whenever she could and looked upon her trading materials as her own to use as she pleased. Della Tubbs' father, Benjamin Fuller, made wagons in his hometown in the midwest. He fashioned for his daughter and her sons a stout little wagon she could push or pull, carrying the boys to her parent's home or a neighbors. Once she met a cougar across the path she intended to take. Although she always carried a rifle she chose this time to frighten off the beast by unloading the boys and pushing the wagon into the waiting cat. Without fear or undo hurry she did exactly that. Her would-be foe departed in haste. Della Tubbs did not have a stove in her log house until 1900. She used an open fireplace with huge pots swinging from cranes to cook the family meals. When finally the precious stove was brought into the house it was packed up the steep trail from Cook which at that time was only a boat landing. As far as could be ascertained there were only two people who lived at the landing then, Indian Joe and a Frenchman whose name we could not learn. Up to about a year ago Mrs. Tubbs was quite well and could have taken care of all her own needs. It has only been within the past few months that her sons and friends noticed that she was failing. Several times during the spring she was hospitalized but seemed to rally from each seige. On June 19 she was admitted to Skyline and did not return. She is survived by five sons, Elmer of Woodland, Albert (Bert) of Merlin, OR, Ben of Portland, OR, William of Glenwood, Earl of White Salmon, WA; a dear and close friend, Frank Burden of Bingen, WA, and one sister, Blanche Kautz of Vancouver, B.C. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles in 1931, son, Delbert in 1906, sisters, Mary, Bessie, Mattie Forbes in 1927, Grace Poynter in 1931, Bertha Mitchell Peterson in 1945, Libby Hennagain in 1947, Cora Isanberg in 1954, and brothers, George Fuller, Henry Fuller, David Fuller in 1944 and Alfred Fuller in 1952. A Christian Science service is being held for her in Gardner's Chapel Thursday at 2 p.m. with burial in the W.S. Odd Fellow cemetery. Pallbearers are Harold Lewis, Omer Foster, C.O. Johnson, Fred Ransier, Bob Brock and Amos Larsen. --------------- Believe she also raised her sister, Bertha Fuller Mitchell's daughter, Maudie Mae Mitchell, from an early age. Maudie married Della's son, Ben Tubbs.

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Where is Della May Fuller Tubbs's memorial?
Della May Fuller Tubbs's memorial is located at: Holton Cemetery, Holton, Jackson County, USA.
When did Della May Fuller Tubbs death?
Della May Fuller Tubbs death on 30 Jun 1956 in White Salmon, Klickitat County, Washington, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Della May Fuller Tubbs's memorial?
Latitude: 39.4611015
Longitude: -95.7583008

Family Members:

Parent

Benjamin Franklin Fuller

(1845 - 1923)

Spouse

Charles Henry Tubbs

(1858 - 1931)

Siblings

Children

Unknown Tubbs

(unknow - unknow)

Benjamin Chester Tubbs Sr.

(1894 - 1969)

Delbert Murel Tubbs

(1903 - 1906)

William Monroe Tubbs

(1908 - 1969)

Earl Leon Tubbs

(1911 - 1967)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Holton Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.4611015, -95.7583008

2. Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery
Holton, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4700012, -95.7702026

3. Haas Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.4632988, -95.8107986

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Coordinate: 39.4984400, -95.7967700

5. Weiss Family Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.4562000, -95.8211000

6. Brick Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.4206009, -95.7099991

7. Bradley Family Cemetery
Holton, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4644928, -95.6813889

8. Wyant Family Cemetery
Holton, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4778520, -95.6614440

9. Circleville Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.5014000, -95.8664017

10. Pleasant Grove Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.5664000, -95.7789000

11. Mitchell Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.3549995, -95.7996979

12. Masquat Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.3821180, -95.8620510

13. Denison Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.3973389, -95.6278000

14. Boan Cemetery
Soldier, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4350014, -95.9227982

15. South Denison Cemetery
Denison, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.3833008, -95.6219025

16. Olive Hill Cemetery
Soldier, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4631004, -95.9285965

17. Estes Cemetery
Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5346985, -95.6168976

18. Thompson-Burns Cemetery
Whiting, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5062100, -95.5980710

19. Wells Family Cemetery
Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4677963, -95.5827866

20. James Cemetery
Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4535800, -95.9424500

21. Wishkeno Cemetery
Mayetta, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.3171700, -95.7756400

22. Ontario Cemetery
Nemaha County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5663795, -95.8885193

23. Larkinburg Cemetery
Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4794006, -95.5706024

24. Cedar Grove Cemetery
Mayetta, Jackson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.3368988, -95.6564026