Person:Curtis Grubb (8)

Write up from a Chuch Bulletin, 17 Oct. 1976: (Bicentennial Sketch #31) The Rev'd Curtis Grubb

    Curtis Grubb was born in a family of Quaker background in Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1849.  He was a graduate of the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, and of the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1878.  
    In 1878 he was made deacon of the Episcopal Church by the Rt. Rev'd Francis M. Whittle, Bishop of Virginia, and at once, following his marriage on the 9th of October that year to Annette French Schooley, also of Quaker background, he sailed for Africa where, until 1881, following a breakdown of his wife's health, he served as an Episcopal missionary in Cape Mount, Liberia.
    In 1881 he returned to Virginia where, ordained a priest by Bishop Whittle, he entered upon the duties of Rector of St. Martin's Parish, which he discharged both faithfully and well.  He lived with his growing family in St. Martin's Rectory until he resigned the parish in 1886.  Mrs. Grubb planted the smoke bush which still grows in the Rectory Garden.  Through his presence in Hanover, he influenced his brother Joseph to buy the nearby Cool Water estate, and thus establish the Grubb lineage in Hanover until the present time.  One of Mr. Grubb's last acts as Rector was to officiate at the funeral of the Rev'd Dr. Robert Nelson, native son of Hanover and retired missionary to China, on 17 July 1886.
    Following a short tenure in West Virginia (1887-1888) Mr. Grubb and his family moved to Florida, in which diocese he remained for the rest of his life.  He finished his career as rector of St. Luke's Church, Live Oak, and Archdeacon of Middle Florida.  He died and was buried in Live Oak in 1930.
    When the family came to Hanover from Africa, they brought with them a young African Princess, born in 1878, who had been given to the Grubbs by her parents.  She lived with a black family in Petersburg, and was attending college with the idea of returning to Liberia as a missionary teacher, when she was stricken with tuberculosis, and died at the age of 18.

I have spoken to the geneology society in Live Oak, FL, and she has been to the graves of Rev. Grubb, his wife Annette, and their son, Curtis. Young Curtis died just before he was to be married. The graves are in the Live Oak City Cemetery. Near the flag pole, look for a large statue for the Sperring family. Follow the coping around their plot to the south side, and there are the three graves.

The Temple Ordinance information comes from the IGI, and was done from census information. Loudoun Co., VA. #822027, 722630, and their Sealing info is 934273, 722630.