Shadrach HUBBELL

   Cause of his death was small pox.

   Another name for Shadrach was Shadrach.

  General Notes:

In the township are the villages of South Woodbury and West Liberty. South Woodbury contains one church, three stores, two wagon and blacksmiths shops, two physicians, one school and a resident minister; also an Odd Fellows' hall. The town was laid out in 1830, by Daniel Wood. The first building, a log cabin, was erected by Joseph Horr. The first frame building was erected by Andrew Schofield, as a storeroom. The first hotel was erected by Shadrach Hubbell and Eli Johnson, during the year 1832-33. The first mail carried from Delaware to Woodbury on contract, was by Shadrach Hubbell, and in this the Hon. J. Randolph Hubbell acted in the capacity of post-boy. The first hotel was erected by Shadrach Hubbell and Eli Johnson, in 1832 and 1833. They were succeeded by Solomon Westbrook.

The organization of the township of Lincoln in 1828, was mainly due to the efforts of Collins Buck, Steiner and Shadrack Hubbell, who had come to maturity, married, and settled down in a cabin on the site of Pearson's brick house. The first election was held on the first Monday in April, 1828, at Hubbell's cabin, and resulted in the election of Edmund Buck as Justice of the Peace, and each one of the voters to one or more offices, as there were but seventeen men to fill twenty-four positions.

Letter from Joanna McClellan:
From Edmund Buck to Israel Buck

Lincoln, December 21^st, 1851
Dear children,
We are all well and hope this will find you well. I saw E. Mosher todauy and he says that you are coming out here on the 25^th. We shall be pleased to have you come. I must say to you that S. Hubbell and Asa has got the smallpox. If you come you had better come by Cardington so as to not come by Hubbells. It has been the coldest weather entirely. Come out if you can. The roads are good now, and I will go home with you. I think Collins' youngest child is very sick. It is doubtful about his recovery.
It is bedtime so goodby, E. Buck


From The Delaware Gazette - May 27, 1886: In memoriam. Mrs. Rebecca Randolph Hubbell died at the home of her son-in-law Jackson Hipple, Esq., in the 87th year of her age. She was an early pioneer of Delaware Co., having immigrated to this county with her parents Mr. James and his wife Catharine FitzRandolph in the year 1818. The family settled on a farm in Peru Twp now in Morrow Co. The farm is still in the family, and is now owned and occupied by her grandson, Mr. Orville Westbrook. In the 23d year of her age she was married to Shadrack Hubbell, who died of small pox in the winter of 1851, at his home in Morrow Co. He had contracted the disease on a business trip to Chicago. By this marriage she had eight children, Bowen C., James R., Asa C., Hiram, Harriet, Catharine, Susan and Minerva, all of whom preceded her to the grave except James and Hiram, now a resident of Ross Co., and Mrs. Susan Hipple of this city with whom she had lived since the death of her daughter, Mrs. Westbrook in 1868. Her parents were of Quaker descent, but early in life and previous to her marriage she joined the Baptist Church.

Shadrach married Rebecca RANDOLPH, daughter of James FITZRANDOLPH and Catherine BAKER, on 15 Feb 1821 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States. (Rebecca RANDOLPH was born in 1800 in Green Co., Pennsylvania and died in May 1886 in Morrow Co., Ohio.)