Family Histories of Coleman
County, Texas
WILLIAM GATES HUBERT
by Camille S. Wallace
From
A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985
edited
by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission
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William Gates Hubert, born September 25, 1830 in Madison County, Mississippi
- died February 17, 1911 in Coleman, was the son of Gabriel Mead Hubert.
William’s first wife was Sarah Roberts, whom he married at Seguin in 1857.
They had Kushua, who married Mollie Featherston. They have a son,
Sydney. William married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Allen, born
October 4, 1835 in Newton, North Carolina, the daughter of Burrell Collier
and Rhoda Leah (Hoke) Allen, on August 4, 1860 in Guadalupe County.
Mary Elizabeth was the widow of Jim Bridges. Children of William
and Mary Elizabeth were:
(1) Caroline Ammaline (Carrie), born May 17, 1861 in Guadalupe
County, married Leonidas Lafayette “Lee” Shield in September, 1877 in Trickham
(see L. L. Shield).
(2) Eva Howard, November 16, 1863 Guadalupe County, married Ed P. Mickel.
They had two sons.
(3) Annie Mead, October 29, 1865 Guadalupe County, married Sam Phillips.
Four daughters: Sue, Madge, Kate and Annie.
(4) Rhoda Willella, July 1, 1868 in Bell County, married Walter Hull
of Brownwood. Two daughters: Mary and Ruth, who married Senor Arrichevelle
in Mexico City. The Hulls lived in Mexico City 12 years, when he
owned and managed several newspapers there.
(5) Frank, January 24, 1870 Bell County, married Jennie White.
They had Brownie, William Gates and Frank Jr.
(6) Kate Stephens, October 7, 1872 Bell County, married Warsaw Hunter.
They had three children.
(7) Harry Grey, October 7, 1874 in Brown County, married Ruby Gann of
Coleman. They had two daughters: Virginia (Hubert) Taylor and Mary
(Hubert) Craven.
(8) Homer Lee, January 28, 1878 Brown County, never married. He
fought in the Spanish American War.
(9) Raymond Ray, July 26, 1878 in Coleman County, married Elizabeth
Collins of Coleman. He was a Methodist preacher. They had three
children: Girlie, Ireland and Mary (her son was a band conductor at West
Point several years).
William Gates fought in Hood’s Brigade in the Civil War as a private.
He was wounded, crippled and blinded and left for dead on a pile of corpses.
He prayed that he would be able to lift a finger and some one would see
him. They did, and he was removed to the army hospital. He
stayed blind for several years and his daughter, Carrie, would read his
lessons the night before so he could teach the next day. He taught
one year in the Salado College, because he was the only man qualified to
teach in the county when a teacher they had hired from Arkansas left in
a hurry, because he could not take Texas weather. Then he moved his
family to Trickham, where he opened a school on the Mukewater Creek, two
miles north of Trickham. He later moved to Santa Anna and edited
the Santa Anna newspaper. From there they moved to Coleman and bought
the Coleman Democrat-Voice. He was a Methodist and a Mason. |
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