James D. Hubbard, one of the leading farmers of Lauderdale County, was born in
Caswell County, N. C., May 10, 1809. His father, William Hubbard, was born in
Virginia, in 1787, and moved with his parents to North Carolina when a boy,
where he married Nancy Qualls, a daughter of Abner Qualls, one of the
Revolutionary soldiers, who fought through the entire war of independence.
Our subject and a sister, Charlotte W., who married Joshua Darden, were the
children born to William and Nancy Hubbard. The mother died in 1821, in
Robertson County, and the father then married Mrs. Elizabeth Gunn, and by this
union had three sons and three daughters: Freeman, Richard H., William, Polly
Ann, Nancy C., and Lucinda. The father came to Tennessee in 1813, and lived
two miles below Nashville, on the Cumberland River, and after locating there
joined Jackson’s army for five years, and was on the forced march made by the
troops to re-enforce the army at New Orleans, but before Mr. Hubbard’s company
reached there the battle of New Orleans had been fought, and liberty secured
to the American people. While Mr. Hubbard was in the army his family moved to
Robertson County, Tenn., and settled near Red River, but in 1846 he, with his
family, moved to Fayette County and settled eight miles north of Somerville,
and died in 1850. Our subject was raised on a farm, and had a common-school
education. After reaching his majority he learned the saddler’s trade, which
he followed thirty years. He was married in Robertson County, February 18,
1851, to Miss Elizabeth A. Stoltz, daughter of Capt. J. H. Stoltz, a
commissioned officer in Jackson’s army. Of nine children born to Mr. and Mrs.
Hubbard six are living: Nancy T., James I., William E., Mary Emma, Robert L.
and Edward C. The mother was born in Robertson County, October 13, 1828. Her
father, Capt. J. H. Stoltz, was born in Stokes County, N. C., in 1783, and
died at the old homestead in Robertson County, five miles west of Springfield,
in 1862. His wife, Nancy Dorris, was born north of Nashville in 1796, and
died April, 1864. The grandmother of Mr. Hubbard was Elizabeth Manesse, a
sister of James Manese, who was thoroughly identified with the early history
of Nashville, having lived there when the place was only a fort. James D.
Hubbard, our subject, is a Democrat. He cast his first presidential vote for
Henry Clay. He is a Mason, and with his wife and all of his family, except
one, belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Hubbard owns a fine
farm of 211 acres on the Ripley and Key Corner road, thirteen miles north of
Ripley, containing a finely improved residence.

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN