Annis and Orland, Venus and Mars

One of my favorite family jokes, which always falls flat, is "Grandpa was from Mars, Grandma was from Venus." My children smile uncertainly. The grandkids look confused. "Don't you remember the book that was all the craze a few years ago? Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus?" Blank stares. Finally...

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Florence Sholes and Clarence Carey

Updated 6/21/18 to include Census and Draft Registration Information As mentioned previously, Annis Hubbard and Charles Sholes had one daughter, Florence Octavia Sholes, born on December 31, 1890. I don't know how much time she spent with her biological father. Chances are she didn't know him, but...

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Books by D. R. Haskin

Dick Haskin is the great, great grandson of Samuel J. Haskin, who was Great Grandpa Cyrus Hoyt Carver's neighbor in Nebraska. They both came to Nebraska from Wisconsin along with a group of other settlers, and in subsequent generations the Carvers and Haskins are tied together via the Hubbard clan....

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The Carver Family of New England

This book is the most comprehensive I've seen for Carver generations going back to Robert. In the case of my line, it covers Robert down through Oliver. It must have taken a long time to compile. That being said, it is not perfect. He was working with what he had. He listed two of Oliver’s kids, left two out, and added one (John G. Carver) as a “possibility” that I rather doubt, based on Oliver’s...

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Sally Carlson Family History

Sally is a descendant of Cyrus Hoyt Carver. Cyrus is my great-grandfather: Orland William Carver Jr --> Orland William Carver Sr --> Cyrus Hoyt Carver. Her website has some excellent photos and family information. In particular, look for pictures of the Carver dugouts and headstones. The family moved from Wisconsin to Nebraska in 1877. The dugouts were the homes that my great uncles lived...

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Journal of a Not-so-perfect Daughter

Written in 1996-7, this covers my father's family of origin and includes stories from his journals. If I were writing it now, it would be a completely different book, but isn't that how life always works?  The ebook version is OK. I wish they had done a better job of editing, particularly...

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Annis Hubbard, Before Orland

Excerpt from journal of Orland William Carver Jr. Portland, Oregon, 1976. My grandmother, Annis Loiza Hubbard, was born in Vermont in 1869. Her parents were Edmund Wilmot Hubbard Sr. and Cynthia Jane Parks (who went by Jane.) Grandma had two brothers, Edmund Wilmot Hubbard Jr. and Arthur Parks...

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Bill Carver's Journal

Most of my Carver and Hubbard family stories come from my father, Orland William Carver Jr. After he retired in 1976 he wrote a journal, or really it was more like a book draft with multiple revisions. He wrote longhand, Palmer method, with ballpoint pens, on college-ruled spiral-bound notebooks....

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