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James M. Hubbard, a well-to-do planter of Noland Township, was born in Caswell County, N. C., April 19, 1840. His father, James Hubbard, was born in North Carolina, in 1814, and was married in that State in 1830, to Miss Artamesa B. Grant, and they became the parents of six children—four sons and two daughters—only three of whom are now living, viz.: James M. (the subject of this sketch), Mary A. (wife of J. W. Thompson, a prosperous farmer of Nevada County, Ark.), and Sarah J. (wife of Dr. J. A. Searcy, a practicing physician of Buckner, Columbia County, Ark). They made their home in North Carolina, and in 1849 the father received his final summons. After his death his widow came to Arkansas, settling in this county in 1853, and the following year contracted a second marriage, with Joseph McKillian, of Hempstead County. She passed away in 1886, in full communion with the Presbyterian Church. James M. Hubbard came to Arkansas with his mother in 1853, and engaged in tilling the soil in this county. He was united in matrimonial bonds in this county in 1867 with Miss Annette R. Walton, daughter of John B. and Rebecca (Harrell) Walton, born in Alabama, October 15, 1839. They are the parents of six children—four sons and two daughters —namely: Ida M. (wife of G.W. Gordon, a farmer of Nevada County), Albert S., Joseph L., Ada A., William M., Arthur W. Mrs. Hubbard died on December 13, 1886, and on May 24, 1888, Mr. Hubbard took a second wife, wedding Miss Minnie E. Sanders, a native of Nevada County, born in 1865, who died May 6, 1889, leaving one child, Minnie M.—since deceased. In 1861 Mr. Hubbard enlisted in Company B, Fourth Arkansas Infantry, and served the Confederate cause until the close of the war, returning home in 1865. He is now engaged in tilling his farm, which comprises 240 acres of good land, well improved, and very valuable. His principal crops are cotton and corn, oats, etc. Socially he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and politically, to the Democratic party.